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From the Field
Have Low-Income Households Been Failed by the Sale of Social Housing?
Matthieu Gimat & Manon Le Bon-Vuylsteke & Bruno Marot & translated by Oliver Waine
- 6 January 2023
Since 2018, the selling-off of social housing in France, as in other countries in Europe, has accelerated. What are...
Reviews
Underground Berlin: Where Infrastructure Meets Politics
Clarence Hatton-Proulx & translated by Oliver Waine
- 2 December 2022
Water, electricity, gas: in Remaking Berlin, Timothy Moss presents a history of Berlin’s infrastructure networks...
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...
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...
Reviews
Photographing the Slums of 1900s Berlin
Danièle Voldman & translated by Oliver Waine
- 14 September 2018
At the turn of the 20th century, the dramatically poor conditions of urban working-class housing was a cause of...
From the Field
The Territorial and Environmental Impacts of Climate Change in Germany
Dennis Becker & Stefan Greiving & Viola Schulze Dieckhoff & Thorsten Wiechmann
- 25 April 2018
In Germany, the territorial and environmental impacts of climate change intersect in key ways with the nation’s...
From the Field
Overcoming Climate Impacts Through Adaptive Capacity Building: Two Extreme Cases from Germany
Viola Schulze Dieckhoff & Thorsten Wiechmann
- 25 April 2018
Climate change and demographic change interact. Impacts of climate change do not solely result from climate...
From the Field
Climate and Demographic Change: The Need for an Integrative Approach to Spatial Planning in Germany
Dennis Becker & Stefan Greiving
- 25 April 2018
Climate change and demographic change are two megatrends that are often discussed without regard for their complex...
From the Field
Dwelling—Living—Waiting: Transformations of a Refugee Reception Camp in Germany
Nina Riewe
- 21 November 2017
In wealthy German cities, which have received tens of thousands of refugees from the Middle East and Northern...
From the Field
Shrinking Networks, Growing Solidarities? How to Design a New Social and Territorial Contract
Daniel Florentin
- 27 September 2017
Utilities operators in a number of European cities, faced with significant reductions in consumption levels across...
From the Field
Overcoming Decline Through Graffiti? The Case of the Open Space Gallery in Halle (Saale)
Nina Gribat
- 4 April 2017
Open Space Gallery, a collective in Halle (Saale), Germany, turned the marginalized neighborhood of Freiimfelde...
From the Field
Ambivalences of Gender Planning
Sandra Huning
- 23 January 2013
How can a gender approach be integrated into urban planning? Sandra Huning here considers this question and...
From the Field
Challenges in Co-Producing Publicly Accessible Spaces
Ulrich Berding & Antje Havemann & Juliane Pegels
- 19 September 2012
Publicly accessible urban spaces are more often than not co-produced and maintained via ad hoc partnerships between...
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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