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Paris region

Interviews

Self-managed housing at the Maison du Val

Alain His & Olivier Ratouis & translated by Oliver Waine - 12 December 2012
Alain His, co-founder of the Maison du Val in Meudon, near Paris, talks to us about this self‑managed housing complex...
Essays

Mapping votes and social inequalities: the case of Paris and its inner suburbs

Jean Rivière & translated by Oliver Waine - 27 June 2012
Analysing local contexts can prove particularly enlightening when it comes to understanding electoral processes,...
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...
Essays

Well-being in the Paris region: widening regional disparities despite overall improvement

Lise Bourdeau-Lepage & Élisabeth Tovar & translated by Eric Rosencrantz - 12 October 2011
Has the socio-spatial divide widened over the past 10 years in the Paris region? Using an original method inspired by...
Debates

Grand Huit, big gamble, big problem

Jean-Pierre Orfeuil & translated by Michael Stokes - 22 December 2010
The secretary of State for the development of Paris and its region, Christian Blanc, left office in July 2010. He...

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.
Centre national de recherche scientifique (CNRS)
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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