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Interviews

Unleashing Finance Capitalism in the City: An Interview with Isaac Rose, Author of The Rentier City

Jonathan Silver & Isaac Rose - 24 June 2025

Jonathan Silver interviews author and tenant organizer Isaac Rose about his book on housing financialization in...

Essays

Sheffield Music Factory: The Legacy of Red Tape Studios

Sam Holden - 7 January 2025

Opening in 1986, in defiance of government cuts, Red Tape Studios was the first municipal recording studio in the UK....

From the Field

Culture and the Nighttime Economy: A Conversation with London’s Night Czar and Culture-at-Risk Officer

Amin Ghaziani - 12 November 2019

Amin Ghaziani describes the high closure rate of LGBTQ nighttime venues in London, and the city’s recognition of...

From the Field

Inclusive Place-Based Leadership: Lesson-Drawing from Urban Governance Innovations in Bristol, UK

Robin Hambleton - 9 October 2018

Across the world, progressive city leaders are working to limit the damaging impact of decisions made by “placeless”...

Debates

The Localism Act in London: institutionalising urban divisions

Justinien Tribillon - 16 April 2014

By decentralising planning powers to local communities, the British Conservative government claims that they are...

Essays

The effects of Thatcherism in the urban North of England

Mark Bailoni & translated by Oliver Waine - 2 April 2014

The economic policies of Margaret Thatcher’s governments polarised not just opinion but also whole swathes of the UK....

Reviews

Ethnic discrimination in social housing

François Bonnet & translated by Oliver Waine - 12 March 2014

Valérie Sala Pala has investigated the extent to which ethnic criteria come into play in the allocation of social...

From the Field

Post-industrial cities: towards a new approach

Max Rousseau & translated by Oliver Waine - 25 September 2013

While anglophone urban studies have sought to critique the way capitalism has developed, the French social sciences...

Debates

Will local-government reform in London involve or abandon its citizens?

Martine Drozdz & translated by Oliver Waine - 3 July 2013

While the current financial crisis has compromised local authorities’ ability to deliver municipal services, the...

Debates

Skyline policy: the Shard and London’s high-rise debate

Manuel Appert & translated by Oliver Waine - 14 December 2011

At a time when major cities are racing to build higher than ever, and when the construction of skyscrapers in France...

Unleashing Finance Capitalism in the City: An Interview with Isaac Rose, Author of The Rentier City

Sheffield Music Factory: The Legacy of Red Tape Studios

Culture and the Nighttime Economy: A Conversation with London’s Night Czar and Culture-at-Risk Officer

Inclusive Place-Based Leadership: Lesson-Drawing from Urban Governance Innovations in Bristol, UK

The Localism Act in London: institutionalising urban divisions

The effects of Thatcherism in the urban North of England

Ethnic discrimination in social housing

Post-industrial cities: towards a new approach

Will local-government reform in London involve or abandon its citizens?

Skyline policy: the Shard and London’s high-rise debate

Series

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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

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Saudi Arabia: How is Mobility Being Transformed in the Oil Kingdom?

Transport for Suburbia: Beyond the Automobile Age (Paul Mees)

Geopolitics and Electric Vehicles: The Rise of Climate Protectionism

One Way to Fight Rising Food Prices: Public Grocery Stores

The Quiet Power of Car-Free Neighborhoods

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