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From the Field

What It Takes to Keep Trees Alive in Urban Bangladesh

Mohammad Azaz & Efadul Huq - 27 October 2026

Tree-planting campaigns promise greener cities, but their success depends on more than planting targets. Drawing on their municipal experience in Dhaka, Efadul Huq and Mohammad Azaz show how inter-agency non-cooperation produces land scarcity, municipal rules obstruct community stewardship, and how planting programs prioritize visibility over long-term survival.

From the Field

A De Facto Subsidized Market-Led Activity: The Political-Economy Rationale of Affordable Housing Provision in Beirut

Rouba Wehbe - 6 October 2026
A contradictory form of affordable housing has taken root in Beirut, based on informally repurposed deteriorated...
Metropolitics

Fall Reading 2026

The Editorial Board - 22 September 2026
As the academic year begins again, the Editorial Board looks forward to sharing new articles with our readers soon....
Focus
Infos/Contact

CALL FOR PAPERS | Governing Repair: The Role of Cities and States in Reparations Policy

Prentiss 1. Dantzler & Rashad 2. Williams & Akira Drake 3. Rodriguez & The Editorial Board - 24 March
The Editorial Board is issuing a call for papers for a forthcoming special series in Metropolitics titled “Governing Repair: The Role of Cities and States in Reparations Policy” and edited by Prentiss A. Dantzler, Rashad Williams, and Akira Drake Rodriguez. We welcome abstract submissions through June 1, 2026....
Essays

Paris: An Aging Capital?

Beatriz Fernández & translated by Oliver Waine - 19 September 2026
Metropolization is often associated with an influx of young, highly qualified professionals. But Beatriz Fernández...
Series

Book Forum: Ruptures in the Afterlife of the Apartheid City

Christopher Courtheyn & Joseph Palis - 30 June 2026
Ruptures in the Afterlife of the Apartheid City by Yousuf Al‑Bulushi examines the persistence of segregation,...
From the Field

Neighbourhood Planning in London and the Uneven Social Geographies of Public Engagement

Lexi 1. Iacono & Claire Colomb - 23 June 2026
A new mechanism of public participation in planning has remained mobilised by more affluent social groups, renewing...
Reviews

The Burning of the Bronx: Reconstructing a Decade of Abandonment, Arson, and Reform

Benjamin Holtzman - 26 May 2026
Between 1970 and 1981, the Bronx lost one out of every five units of housing to abandonment and arson. But why did...
Reviews

Ride-Hailing Away from Democracy: Building Uber’s Political Playbook in Washington, DC

Lauren Ames Fischer - 12 May 2026
In the past decade, platforms such as Uber and Lyft have changed how people navigate urban space. Disrupting DC...
Essays

“Build Canada Homes” Will Fail Without Confronting Anti-Black Racism

Prentiss 1. Dantzler - 28 April 2026
Canada’s new housing agency risks repeating the same injustices that produced today’s uneven housing crisis unless it...
Reviews

France’s Housing Projects Recounted Through Postcards

Florine Ballif & translated by Oliver Waine - 21 April 2026
The selection of postcards presented by Renaud Epstein in his book On est bien arrivés (“We’ve arrived safely”)...
Interviews

An Interview with Marc Serra Solé: Barcelona’s Citizens Forge Solidarities Through the State

Celina Su - 7 April 2026
How might progressive city administrations build the power they need for real policy wins? Celina Su gives us a...
Reviews

The Cities We’re Losing—The Cities We Need

Ahmed Allahwala - 17 March 2026
Although there is no shortage of work on gentrification, it rarely takes as its object of inquiry those “ordinary”...
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Series

Book Forum: Ruptures in the Afterlife of the Apartheid City
Post-Covid Mobilities: A Greener World for Tomorrow?
Provincializing the “Real‑Estate Turn”
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

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...

Other resources online

Archive | The combined use of bicycles and trains in the...

Mobile Lives Forum
31 March 2024, by Javier Caletrío The combined use of bicycles and trains as part of the same trip is becoming...

Archive | Tactical cycling urbanism and the health crisis

Mobile Lives Forum
30 September 2023, by the Mobile Lives Forum During the Covid-19 health crisis, cyclist numbers increased...

For These Old Bus Stations, It’s Not the End of the Line

CityLab
The streamlined depots built by Greyhound in the middle of the 20th century reflected a more optimistic era for bus...

Municipal Socialism’s “YIMBY” Problem. The Housing Crisis and...

Spectre Journal
It’s Tuesday, November 4: Soon-to-be mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announces—after weeks of ducked questions—that he is...

Congestion Pricing’s Unexpected Winners: Suburban Drivers

CityLab
NYC’s controversial toll program hasn’t just sped up trips inside Manhattan, a new paper finds. It’s easing traffic...

DOT wants to prohibit free buses. That could be a problem for...

Politico
A proposal from the Trump administration would restrict federal funding for cities that don’t charge fares.

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