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. We begin with these reading (and listening) recommendations, pulled together from the titles the Metropolitics team enjoyed over the summer and those that are on our desks this fall.

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,...

Focus

Infos/Contact

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

Prentiss Dantzler & Rashad Williams & Akira Drake 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....

From the Field

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

Lexi 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 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”...

Interviews

What Is Worth Asking About Our Cities?

Naomi Adiv & Anant Maringanti & Harikrishnan Sasikumar - 3 March 2026

What is the state of urban theory from the Global South and how can local research simultaneously advance scholarly...

Reviews

A Masterpiece in Peril: The Garden Suburb of La Butte-Rouge

Renaud Epstein & translated by Oliver Waine - 24 February 2026

La Butte-Rouge, built in the mid-20th century in Paris’s southern suburbs, is the archetypal example of a French...

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

Metropolitics

Fall Reading 2026

Paris: An Aging Capital?

Book Forum: Ruptures in the Afterlife of the Apartheid City

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

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

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

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

France’s Housing Projects Recounted Through Postcards

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

The Cities We’re Losing—The Cities We Need

What Is Worth Asking About Our Cities?

A Masterpiece in Peril: The Garden Suburb of La Butte-Rouge

Series

Featured

Covid-19 Transformed New York’s Destination Food Markets

Moving Inside City Limits: The Urban Mobility of Undocumented Youth

Filming Ethnic Diversity in New York

Looking Inward, Across the Border

The Political Aesthetics of Drag

Disarm the Police

Other resources online

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

Archive | Tactical cycling urbanism and the health crisis

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

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

Congestion Pricing’s Unexpected Winners: Suburban Drivers

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

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