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From the Field

Regulating Basement Conversions in New York City

Ooha Uppalapati - 5 September 2023

Ooha Uppalapati examines the regulation of basement apartments in New York City and the implications of proposed laws for both homeowners and tenants.

Debates

“Urban Exodus” as an Extension of the Rentier Sector

Aurélie Delage & Max Rousseau & translated by Oliver Waine - 15 September 2023
In the French media, the increasingly recurrent topic of urban exodus has been portrayed as one of the consequences...
Metropolitics

Summer Reading 2023

The Editorial Board - 18 July 2023
The Editorial Board is now on summer break and will be posting new articles again starting on Tuesday, September 5....
Focus
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 York City and Paris, Stephen Ruszczyk shows how cities can strengthen mobility for undocumented youths, and for all residents, regardless of legal status. Five years after Liang’s parents left him...
From the Field

Digital Technology and the City: New Forms of Urban Segregation in Cape Town?

Julien Migozzi & translated by Oliver Waine - 30 June 2023
In the age of platform capitalism, how is digital technology reconfiguring real-estate markets and access to...
From the Field

The Reception Chain for Exiled Ukrainians: From Ukraine to Poland and France

Thomas Lacroix & translated by Oliver Waine - 16 June 2023
In contrast to other recent waves of refugees, Ukrainian exiles have been welcomed quickly and massively within the...
Terrains

Major Events: The Olympics of Digital Urban Safety?

Myrtille Picaud & translated by Oliver Waine - 2 June 2023
Major international events are increasingly witnessing the deployment of digital security policies and...
From the Field

Girls-Only Sport

Antoine Bréau & translated by Oliver Waine - 26 May 2023
Against a backdrop of gender inequalities at school, an experiment in the field of physical education shows that...
From the Field

¡Yo soy Boricua! Identity-related work and collective elevation strategies among New York Puerto Ricans

Audrey Célestine & translated by Oliver Waine - 5 May 2023
Puerto Ricans in New York City form a minority group in the struggle against discrimination. Audrey Célestine shows...
Debates

How the Gonesse Triangle Became a Zone to Defend

Stéphane Tonnelat & translated by Oliver Waine - 28 April 2023
Despite the cancellation in late 2019 of the EuropaCity project - a giant shopping mall and entertainment complex...
Debates

Where are the Women Architects?

Collectif Architoo & translated by Oliver Waine - 31 March 2023
At the 2020 edition of the Albums des jeunes architectes et paysagistes (AJAP) competition, organized by the French...
Reviews

An American in Marseille

Olivier Gaudin & translated by Oliver Waine - 17 March 2023
In his latest work, Marseille, Port to Port, the New York-based ethnographer William Kornblum paints a rich and...
Essays

Navigating Jefes Fantasmas in New York City’s Urban Platform Economy

Jackson Todd - 3 March 2023
How has the “platform economy” altered urban life, infrastructure, and labor? Jackson Todd examines New York City’s...
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Series

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
Climate Change and Social Change
Shrinking Cities

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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...
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...
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...
Reviews

The Dangers of Security

Médéric Martin-Mazé & translated by Oliver Waine - 22 May 2015
In Against Security, Harvey Molotch highlights – through various examples, including the New York subway, airports,...

Other resources online

Cycles of Violence: Analysing Media Discourse in the Newspaper...

Mobile Lives Forum
How are cyclist and pedestrian deaths depicted in newspaper reports, and how do these reports help shape...

Lahti: The First Carbon-Rationing Experiment Applied to Local...

Mobile Lives Forum
The city of Lahti in Finland was the first to experiment with a carbon-trading scheme among its inhabitants to...

Is Rationing Carbon for Travel a Fair, Efficient, and Realistic...

Mobile Lives Forum
In the wake of the pandemic, a carbon tax at Europe’s borders is now on the agenda, but a domestic version for...

Reducing Carbon-Emitting Travel: A Factor of Social Cohesion and...

Mobile Lives Forum
As part of France’s Mission on the Future of the Economic Model of Public Transportation, commissioned by the French...

Strasbourg, An Example of a Cycling City

Mobile Lives Forum
Strasbourg is the leading city for cycling in France and a constant source of inspiration for all French cities...

The Trinity of Walking, Cycling and Public Transportation Must Be...

Mobile Lives Forum
While emissions from the transportation sector remain at a very high level, all hopes are currently pinned on the...

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