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Shelters for Profit, Not People: The Rise of Tax-Credit Investment in US Cities

Renee Tapp - 22 September 2020

Tax-credit investment in US cities provides tax havens for investors, and squanders taxpayer resources on market-rate housing at the expense of affordable housing. Tax credits deplete public coffers, leading to cuts in social spending and concentrating power and profit at the top.

affordable housing housing inequalities historic preservation tax credits
Debates

When Revolution Reinvents Public Space in Beirut

Ines Lakrouf & translated by Oliver Waine - 18 September 2020
In the fall of 2019, peaceful protesters in Lebanon were demanding an end to corruption and calling for a movement...
Essays

Create, Don’t Destroy: Laying the Foundation for a Public Discourse on Racial Justice in Germany

Janina L. Selzer - 15 September 2020
A night of violence left Stuttgart, a usually peaceful German city, with many unanswered questions. While...
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Reviews

Confronting Police Violence and an Unjust Justice System

Michele Graham - 19 May
We publish Michele Graham’s review of the 2018 book The War on Neighborhoods: Policing, Prison, and Punishment in a Divided City as Black people in the US again endure the trauma of a murder in their community at the hands of police officers. Graham’s reflections on the authors’ findings (drawn from a neighborhood...
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Summer Reading

The Editorial Board - 20 July 2020
The Editorial Board is currently on summer break, but will be posting new articles again starting on Tuesday,...
Essays

Community-Rooted Organizations: Enhanced Accountability and Capacity Building for Community Development

Camryn Smith & Danielle Spurlock & Aliyah Abdur-Rahman & Kay Jowers - 10 July 2020
Communities in Partnership, in Durham, North Carolina, uses a “community-rooted” approach to its work that leverages...
Essays

The Right to the City: An Emancipating Concept?

Matthias Lecoq & translated by Oliver Waine - 3 July 2020
The radical approach formulated by Henri Lefebvre in 1968 criticized the failure to include inhabitants in the...
Essays

Consent-Based Social Dancing Spaces and the Right to the City

Rebecca Krisel - 30 June 2020
Consent-based programs in social dancing venues in New York City are an initial step in supporting social dancing...
Interviews

In Search of Grand Paris: Pierre Mansat on the Eve of the June 2020 Municipal Elections

Magda Maaoui & Pierre Mansat - 26 June 2020
Magda Maaoui interviews Pierre Mansat, former deputy mayor of Paris and a founding father of “le Grand Paris” (the...
Essays

Reflections on Retooling for the Covid‑19 Pandemic

Nichola Lowe & Tara Vinodrai - 19 June 2020
Factories are adapting to the new conditions and needs the coronavirus has introduced by retooling production lines...
Interviews

What Has Happened in Berlin Since 1989?

Thibaut de Ruyter & Olivier Gaudin & translated by Oliver Waine - 12 June 2020
Since the fall of the Wall in November 1989, Berlin has metamorphosed into one of the world’s most popular urban...
Essays

Homeless Theory and Research Collaboration: A Tribute to Nikita Price

Eric Goldfischer & Odilka Santiago - 9 June 2020
At a time when too many people are dying, Eric Goldfischer and Odilka Santiago remember Nikita Price of Picture the...
Debates

Covid-19, War, and Working-Class Neighborhoods

Pierre Gilbert & translated by Oliver Waine - 5 June 2020
The residents of France’s working-class neighborhoods, accused of exacerbating the coronavirus pandemic through...
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Progressive Mayors and Urban Social Movements
Land Rights in the Urban Global South
Climate Change and Social Change
Shrinking Cities
The Resurgence of Towers in European Cities
Children in the City
The Renewed Relevance of Urban-Planning Models?
Nature in the City

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From the Field

Arts Districts Without Artists

Meghan Ashlin Rich - 23 March 2015
Numerous studies have examined gentrification’s harmful effects for low-income residents, but few examine the...
Debates

Interrupting Inequality: Crisis and Opportunity in Low-Income Housing Policy

Susan Saegert - 26 January 2015
Inequality in the United States is deeply rooted in issues of property ownership, wealth, race and class....
Debates

Kanal İstanbul: a “crazy project” serving political ambitions

Yoann Morvan & translated by Oliver Waine - 7 December 2011
The current proliferation of mega-projects in the Istanbul metropolitan area is both undeniable and impressive. The...

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France’s National Low-Carbon Strategy: Can It Work Without Slowing...

Mobile Lives Forum
In order to become carbon-neutral by 2050, France has adopted an ambitious roadmap that concerns all sectors of the...

“Being Anchored to Be Agile”: A Call for Interdisciplinarity in...

Mobile Lives Forum
Following the publication on the Mobile Lives Forum website of the roundtable discussion “Spatial Mobilities, the...

Dialogue on Mobility Between Françoise Dureau, Pierre Lannoy,...

Mobile Lives Forum
As part of the 16th edition of the MSFS symposium “Spatial Mobilities, Methodologies for Data Collection and...

Dialogue on Mobility between Françoise Dureau, Pierre Lannoy,...

Mobile Lives Forum
In the second part of the roundtable discussion held for the 16th edition of the MSFS symposium “Spatial Mobilities,...

The Scandal of Millions of Americans Deprived of Running...

The Guardian
Guardian US environmental justice reporter Nina Lakhani reports on her landmark investigation into America’s water...

Pills, Mills and Bellyaches: How Blackburn Out-Partied...

The Guardian
In the 1990s, down the road from the Haçienda in Manchester, an underground acid house scene was jumping in the...

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