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Sophie Gonick

Sophie Gonick is an assistant professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University. She is the author of Dispossession and Dissent: Immigrants and the Struggle for Housing in Madrid, forthcoming from Stanford University Press. Her work has been featured in leading planning and critical-geography journals, including Antipode and IJURR: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. icon

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The Violence of Urban Vacancy

By Sophie Gonick

Houses without people, people without homes: New York has invested in empty storefronts and empty districts, even as most New Yorkers suffer.

What Would a Feminist City Look Like? Talking with Leslie Kern

By Sophie Gonick

“What we build and how we build influences the kinds of families and relationships that we can have or can even imagine.”

Global Cities and Their Discontents: Saskia Sassen and Teresa Caldeira in Conversation

By Sophie Gonick

In a moment in which the populist right wing is ascendant globally, cities can serve as beacons of hope ...

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