This week&#8217;s podcast — our 200th! — celebrates city life. To do that, we&#8217;ll read, in full, &#8220;Urbanism as a Way of Life&#8221; by Louis Wirth from the Journal of Sociology in 1938, with help from Dr. Lisa Schweitzer, a professor at USC Sol Price School of Public Policy. Schweitzer believes this piece and others sometimes get overshadowed by Jane Jacobs but have something great to tell us about cities and how we live in them.
So let&#8217;s change that!

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