Samuel Stein

Samuel Stein is a geography PhD student at the CUNY Graduate Center and an Urban Studies instructor at Hunter College. In addition to studying and teaching urban geography, he worked as a researcher, organizer, and planner on numerous New York City union campaigns, tenant mobilizations, and public policy initiatives. His writing on urban planning politics has been appeared in The Journal of Urban Affairs, Metropolitics, Jacobin, and many other magazines and journals. In 2018, Verso will publish his first book, a critical take on planning in today's real estate-driven urban political economy.

Gentrification and the Future of Work in New York City’s “Chinatowns”

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New York City’s “Chinatowns” are becoming increasingly inhospitable to both long-term residents and recent immigrants from working class backgrounds. Such immense changes in the landscape and intensive re-routings of both people and money can often be traced back to a political crisis—the attacks of September 11, 2001—and an economic crisis—the financial meltdown that peaked in … Read more