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Interviews
Teaching Art and the History of Tattoos at Rikers Island: An Interview with Tamara Santibanez
Lisa Jean Moore
- 22 January 2019
An interview with Tamara Santibanez, who teaches art and the cultural and social history of tattoos to youth...
From the Field
Taste of Home: A Sociocultural Exploration of Food Habits and Health Among Bangladeshi Immigrants in New York City
Fatema Kamal
- 22 May 2018
Resettlement in an entirely different country may have drastic consequences for an individual’s health. This is...
From the Field
The Cost of Affordability: Inclusionary Zoning and Displacement in East New York
James Shelton
- 20 March 2018
What are the impacts of New York City’s Mandatory Inclusionary Housing program upon low-income communities of color?...
Debates
Where Does Public Land Come From? Municipalization and Privatization Debates
Oksana Mironova & Samuel Stein
- 6 March 2018
This article illuminates contemporary land-use and disposition struggles in New York City by tracing the history of...
Reviews
New York’s Soul for Sale: Raising the Rent on Lunch Counters and Counterculture
Benjamin Terrall
- 13 February 2018
Vanishing New York is Jeremiah Moss’s loving chronicle of the neighborhoods, characters, bars, and corner...
From the Field
“People of Color Are Not Props”: Black Branding and Community Resistance in Gentrifying Brooklyn
Maura McGee
- 6 February 2018
When a new white-owned upscale bar-restaurant in the gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights advertised...
Essays
Institutional Roadblocks to Achieving Environmental Justice Through Public Participation: The Case of CSO Control in US Cities
Rebekah Breitzer
- 24 January 2018
Rather than meaningfully involving representatives of environmental-justice communities in decisions about the...
Essays
Birdwatching in the City: A Case for Multispecies Tourism
Elizabeth Cherry & August Davidson-Onsgard & Lisa Jean Moore
- 16 January 2018
This essay analyzes the growth of urban avitourism—wildlife tourism focused on birds—as an activity that drives...
Reviews
Making Their Own History: Squatters on Manhattan’s Lower East Side
Benjamin H. Shepard
- 19 December 2017
During the 1970s, when Manhattan’s Lower East Side was full of derelict real estate, activists laid claim to...
Debates
Storm Recovery: Local Efforts, Municipal Constraints, and New Ways Forward
Michael P. McCabe
- 28 November 2017
Climate change-induced storm surges and rising sea levels will steadily cause more damage to homes in low-lying...
Debates
When Does Police Violence Cause Urban Unrest?
Cathy Lisa Schneider
- 14 November 2017
In the summer of 2014, police killed Michael Brown in Ferguson and Eric Garner in New York. Both men were black and...
From the Field
Swept Away: Public Work and the Politics of Employment in New York City’s Parks
John Krinsky & Maud Simonet
- 6 September 2017
Upwards of 4,000 unionized civil-service workers once cleaned and maintained New York City’s parks. Today about...
Essays
The Happy Few and the Unhappy Many: Endangered Artists in Global Cities
Boris Grésillon & translated by John Barrett
- 15 June 2017
While participating or having participated in reshaping urban spaces, artists seem to be increasingly driven away...
From the Field
The Evolution of New York City’s Black Neighborhoods
John Mollenkopf
- 9 May 2017
Especially in the central cities of the Northeast, neighborhoods that were once identified with black politics and...
Essays
Counterpublic Spaces and Movement-Building
Oksana Mironova
- 8 March 2017
To make themselves and their causes visible in traditional public arenas like streets and parks, social activists...
Debates
Building a Resilient and Equitable City: How to Advance Environmental Justice Through the
OneNYC
Plan
Eddie Bautista & Annel Hernandez & Juan Camilo Osorio & Pamela Soto
- 1 March 2017
Many of the challenges that cities face today stem from historic and entrenched systemic policies and processes...
Interviews
“Build a Wall”: The Wrong Solution for Our Coastal Problems. An Interview with Jennifer Mattei
Jennifer H. Mattei & Lisa Jean Moore
- 7 February 2017
Metropolitics editorial committee member and sociologist Lisa Jean Moore interviewed biologist Jennifer Mattei, an...
Debates
On Our Own: Protecting and Developing Social Housing in the Trump Era
John Krinsky
- 13 January 2017
In response to a tense post-election moment in the US, the Metropolitics editorial committee has initiated...
Reviews
Closed Quarters
William Helmreich
- 13 December 2016
As we contemplate an era marked by official hostility to fair-housing laws, we would do well to heed the...
From the Field
Proclaiming “Veggie Pride” in Paris and New York
Elizabeth Cherry
- 22 November 2016
How do animal-rights activists promote vegetarianism? Many activists use environmental and health arguments, but...
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
Building a Multifaceted Campaign for Public Higher Education
Stephen Brier & Michael Fabricant
- 4 October 2016
In their new book, Austerity Blues: Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education, Michael Fabricant and Stephen...
From the Field
“We Are the Scene”: Alternative Art Economies in Bushwick
Mary Kosut
- 13 September 2016
Artists and art communities are essential to the cultural life of cities. In New York City, artists have created...
From the Field
“Harriet Jacobs didn’t learn to read and write so that she could get an A”
C. Ray Borck
- 3 May 2016
Confronted by school systems that persistently reproduce race- and class-based educational inequality, how can...
From the Field
Where Did the Bees Go? New York City Beekeeping Amid Ecological Crises
Mary Kosut & Lisa Jean Moore
- 5 April 2016
The decline and extinction of bees and other pollinators threatens the global food supply. Residents in cities like...
Reviews
Neighborhood Change and the Right to the City
Adam Tanaka
- 29 March 2016
New York City’s Stuyvesant Town is the largest housing development in Manhattan, and also one of the most...
From the Field
The Hollowing-Out of New York City’s Industrial Zones
Tarry Hum
- 16 February 2016
At a November 2015 press conference, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio vowed to take action to ensure that firms in the...
Essays
Parallel Lives? Elena Ferrante’s Naples and My West New Rochelle
Bella Mirabella
- 26 January 2016
Elena Ferrante’s acclaimed Neapolitan novels, which trace the lives of two girls born in a working class district in...
Debates
To Prevent Worsening Inequality, Put Affluent Neighborhoods on NYC Rezoning List
Moses Gates
- 17 November 2015
Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning is meant to boost the affordable housing supply and create more economically...
Debates
Artists and Industry: Friends or Foes?
Paul Parkhill
- 3 November 2015
Anti-gentrification activists have castigated artists’ lofts as the vanguard of gentrification, while cities have...
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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...
Essays
Sentinel Territories: A New Concept for Looking at Environmental Change
David Blanchon & Frédéric Keck & François-Michel Le Tourneau & Stéphane Tonnelat & Adriana Zuniga-Teran
- 8 May 2020
In this essay, the authors develop the concept of “sentinel territories,” or environments where humans can perceive...
From the Field
Who Cleans Paris? Garbage Collectors in Their Own Words
Coline Ferrant & Marie Mourad & translated by Oliver Waine
- 21 June 2019
Who are Paris’s garbage collectors? Coline Ferrant and Marie Mourad highlight the diverse working conditions covered...
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...
Interviews
Teaching Art and the History of Tattoos at Rikers Island: An Interview with Tamara...
Lisa Jean Moore
- 22 January 2019
An interview with Tamara Santibanez, who teaches art and the cultural and social history of tattoos to youth...
From the Field
Snowbirds’ Gift Economy in the Arizona Desert
David Frati
- 7 November 2017
Each year, 200,000 retired people spend the winter in and around the small town of Quartzsite, Arizona, in the...
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