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Debates
Fixing the Accessibility Gap in Municipal Procurement
Emily Holloway & Nicholas Shatan
- 5 March 2019
How can minority- and women-owned businesses overcome structural disadvantages to building wealth through...
From the Field
Citizen Outsider: Racism, Marginalization, and Immigration in France
Jean Beaman
- 31 May 2017
As refugee crises have emerged and immigration has increased in many regions of the world, several Western countries...
Reviews
Filming Ethnic Diversity in New York
Stéphane Tonnelat & translated by Christina Mitrakos
- 21 October 2016
Frederick Wiseman’s fortieth documentary film, In Jackson Heights (2015), returns to an urban theme explored in...
From the Field
The French Republic and the Paris Spring
Gregory Smithsimon
- 6 September 2016
Has the French Spring arrived yet? Gregory Smithsimon documents La Nuit Debout, a self-named social movement that has...
From the Field
Social Norms and Resistance on the City Bus
Sofya Aptekar
- 5 May 2015
While subways are hailed as the quintessential New York experience, with their own museum, T-shirts, and lore, the...
From the Field
When Predator Becomes Prey: Rental Housing in Low-Income Minority Neighborhoods
Clément Théry
- 2 February 2015
In the growing low-income rental market, predator and prey roles can shift, as landlords and tenants alike can fall...
Interviews
Professionalisation, gentrification and welfare reform: 20 years of socio-spatial change in London
Manuel Appert & Anaïs Collet & Chris Hamnett
- 19 June 2013
The 2008 financial crisis called time on a long period of economic transformation in European cities that has seen...
Debates
The New French Ghettos
Hervé Marchal & Jean-Marc Stébé & translated by Eric Rosencrantz
- 16 December 2010
Are housing projects in France – particularly the French slums euphemistically termed Zones Urbaines Sensibles (ZUS...
Series
Horizons in the Housing Struggle
Black Power and Black Self-Determination in a New Time and New Spaces
Urban Wastes, Present and Future
New York Dossier: The Food Industry Faces the Covid‑19 Pandemic
Cities in the Age of Financialization
Contemporary Housing Struggles: Crises, Activism, and Critical Research
New York Tech Dossier: The Dark Side of New York’s Tech Economy
Progressive Mayors and Urban Social Movements
Land Rights in the Urban Global South
Featured
From the Field
Covid-19 Transformed New York’s Destination Food Markets
Ivana Mellers
- 5 October 2021
Ivana Mellers analyzes how New York’s destination markets—key spaces of economic and social interactions—coped during...
From the Field
Moving Inside City Limits: The Urban Mobility of Undocumented Youth
Stephen P. Ruszczyk
- 4 June 2019
The urban context and public transportation shape how undocumented youths move within cities. In a comparison of New...
Reviews
Filming Ethnic Diversity in New York
Stéphane Tonnelat & translated by Christina Mitrakos
- 21 October 2016
Frederick Wiseman’s fortieth documentary film, In Jackson Heights (2015), returns to an urban theme explored in...
From the Field
Looking Inward, Across the Border
Harel Shapira
- 19 April 2016
In the constellation of anti-immigrant politics in the United States, groups like the Minutemen, civilians who patrol...
Essays
The Political Aesthetics of Drag
Shaka McGlotten
- 13 October 2015
Drag, or the diverse art form and culture of performance that typically plays with gender and sex, is an integral...
Debates
Disarm the Police
Gregory Smithsimon
- 29 September 2015
In the current political debates about discriminatory policing, there has been a lack of serious discussion of...
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“Our hallway’s big enough to play football in!” The council housing...
The Guardian
Boasting two-sink kitchens, Tower Court in north London is tailored for the Haredi Jewish community – but its...
Saudi Arabia: How is Mobility Being Transformed in the Oil Kingdom?
Mobile Lives Forum
04 April 2025, by Aniss Mouad Mezoued The launch of the Riyadh metro in late November 2024 once again highlighted...
Transport for Suburbia: Beyond the Automobile Age (Paul Mees)
Mobile Lives Forum
27 March 2025, by Javier Caletrío Can suburbia avoid car dependence? Can low-density areas enjoy first-rate public...
Geopolitics and Electric Vehicles: The Rise of Climate Protectionism
Mobile Lives Forum
17 February 2025, by Xabier Gangoiti and Graham Parkhurst The electric vehicle (EV) revolution is not just a...
One Way to Fight Rising Food Prices: Public Grocery Stores
The New Republic
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has proposed opening government-owned grocery stores as a solution to...
The Quiet Power of Car-Free Neighborhoods
CityLab
Restricting or banning vehicles in congested city centers pays off with cleaner air and safer streets. We need to...
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