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From the Field
The Struggle to Preserve Hanlan’s Point Beach as Queer Social Infrastructure
Ahmed Allahwala
- 28 May 2024
The march of neoliberal urbanism poses grave threats to nature and the people that use it. In this article, Ahmed...
From the Field
Montreal’s Alleyways: A Laboratory for Democratic Life
Joëlle Zask & translated by Oliver Waine
- 12 February 2021
The participation of a city’s inhabitants in democratic life begins with forms of everyday sociability and...
Essays
Organizing Against
Projet Gentrification
: Housing Activism in a White-Supremacist Landscape in Montreal
Pierce Nettling
- 27 November 2018
Housing activists in Montreal and Quebec have successfully sought to secure tenant rights and social housing for...
Essays
Cracks Where the Light Gets in: Recent Legal Breakthroughs in Detention and Crimmigration in Canada
Petra Molnar & Stephanie J. Silverman
- 7 December 2016
While the criminalization of immigrants has been pervasive—leading many to adopt the word “crimmigration”—that does...
Essays
The “Dozois Plan”: lessons learned from urban-renewal policies and the history of urban planning in Montreal
Frédéric Mercure-Jolette & translated by Oliver Waine
- 23 October 2015
Urban-renewal policies justify their actions by decrying neighbourhoods earmarked for demolition. Frédéric...
From the Field
Vancouverism: hybridisation and spread of an urban model
Nicolas Douay & translated by Oliver Waine
- 12 June 2015
The transformation that downtown Vancouver has undergone – which has since become a reference, known as...
From the Field
The mixed success of Toronto’s metropolitan merger
Guillaume Poiret & translated by Oliver Waine
- 20 November 2013
While the debate on local-government reform rages on in France, Guillaume Poiret looks back at the municipal...
From the Field
“Soft densification” in Canada
Anastasia Touati & translated by Oliver Waine
- 5 June 2013
Against the backdrop of a housing crisis, a number of local authorities in Ontario, Canada, have developed policies...
Reviews
The politics of municipal mergers (and demergers) in Montreal
Richard Harris
- 6 March 2013
In the late 1990s, the province of Quebec reacted to metropolitan growth in Montreal by merging the city with 27 of...
From the Field
Gay populations as gentrifiers in Paris and Montreal
Colin Giraud & translated by Oliver Waine
- 22 February 2012
Are “gay villages” a sign of gentrification? A comparison between the Marais in Paris – an area gentrified before...
Series
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
Climate Change and Social Change
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...
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...
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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