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From the Field

Coping with crowdedness in mass transportation

Martin Aranguren & Stéphane Tonnelat & translated by Oliver Waine - 26 February 2014
Riding overcrowded metros, tubes or subways with dozens of strangers in varying moods is routinely viewed as a trying...
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...
Reviews

La Défense: the Planning and Politics of a Global Business District

Matthew Wendeln - 26 June 2013
La Défense, Europe’s largest business district, is the outcome of a singular mix of state planning, architectural...
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...
Debates

Local food: a concrete Utopia

Christian Deverre & Jean-Baptiste Traversac & translated by Oliver Waine - 15 February 2012
Roland Vidal recently invited us to look beyond short food-supply chains and rethink local links between cities and...
Debates

The risk of nuclear accident: a territorial approach

Ambroise Pascal & translated by Oliver Waine - 1 February 2012
How many people live in the vicinity of French nuclear power stations? Recent events – notably in Japan, but also in...

Series

Book Forum: Ruptures in the Afterlife of the Apartheid City
Post-Covid Mobilities: A Greener World for Tomorrow?
Provincializing the “Real‑Estate Turn”
Horizons in the Housing Struggle
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

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 New...
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 patrol...
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

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

Mobile Lives Forum
31 March 2024, by Javier Caletrío The combined use of bicycles and trains as part of the same trip is becoming...

Archive | Tactical cycling urbanism and the health crisis

Mobile Lives Forum
30 September 2023, by the Mobile Lives Forum During the Covid-19 health crisis, cyclist numbers increased...

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

CityLab
The streamlined depots built by Greyhound in the middle of the 20th century reflected a more optimistic era for bus...

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

Spectre Journal
It’s Tuesday, November 4: Soon-to-be mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announces—after weeks of ducked questions—that he is...

Congestion Pricing’s Unexpected Winners: Suburban Drivers

CityLab
NYC’s controversial toll program hasn’t just sped up trips inside Manhattan, a new paper finds. It’s easing traffic...

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

Politico
A proposal from the Trump administration would restrict federal funding for cities that don’t charge fares.
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Journal supported by the Institut des Sciences Humaines et Sociales (Institute of Human and Social Sciences) of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)

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