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Essays
Navigating
Jefes Fantasmas
in New York City’s Urban Platform Economy
Jackson Todd
- 3 March 2023
How has the “platform economy” altered urban life, infrastructure, and labor? Jackson Todd examines New York City’s...
Reviews
The Black Middle Class, or the Harsh Reality of the American Dream
Sylvie Tissot & translated by Oliver Waine
- 24 January 2023
The suburbs of the United States, once the epicenter of racial segregation, are now home to more African Americans...
Essays
Visualizing “Superdiversity” in New York City
H. Jacob Carlson
- 8 November 2022
A new set of visualization and mapping tools focused on “superdiversity” shows the complexity and intersectionality...
Essays
New Tourism Geographies and the Politics of Tourist Taxation
Elizabeth Strom
- 7 June 2022
The changing geography of urban tourism has led to new forms of political contestation. How hotel-tax revenues are...
From the Field
Starve the Beast: Community-Owned and Community-Controlled Composting as an Alternative to Incineration in Baltimore
Nicole Fabricant
- 31 May 2022
Nicole Fabricant documents organizing efforts in Baltimore, led by youth of color, against a trash-to-energy...
From the Field
The Spectacle of Reuse: Recirculating Urban Salvage at Pittsburgh’s Construction Junction
Susan M. Ross
- 29 April 2022
Susan M. Ross examines a building-materials reuse center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, arguing that it is an...
From the Field
The Promises and Realities of Data-Driven Community Development
Austin Harrison
- 22 February 2022
Tennessee nonprofit Innovate Memphis has spent nearly a decade designing the Memphis Property Hub, a public data...
Reviews
Reconsidering Wasteways from Boston to Seattle
Lisa Jean Moore
- 1 February 2022
Throughout the Covid‑19 pandemic, with disposable masks and endless testing, garbage proliferates. It is extremely...
Reviews
(Re)Constructing Inequality: Community Development in Public and Private
Claire Dunning
- 14 December 2021
Claire Dunning reviews Jeremy R. Levine’s new book, Constructing Community, an ethnographic study of community...
Reviews
Infrastructure Financing and the Bonds of Inequality
Rachel Weber
- 19 October 2021
Rachel Weber reviews historian Destin Jenkins’ new book, The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the...
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
Between Two Crises: New York’s Artisanal Food Startup Founders
Nga Than
- 28 September 2021
The Covid‑19 pandemic forced a pause to a decade of growth for New York City’s artisanal food startups. Strategies...
From the Field
Can the New Economy Survive without Coffee Shops (and Their Wi‑Fi)?
Thomas R. Chung
- 21 September 2021
Thomas R. Chung argues that coffee shops play an important role in the creative and tech sectors of the...
Series
New York Dossier: The Food Industry Faces the Covid‑19 Pandemic
Sharon Zukin
- 14 September 2021
Metropolitics is pleased to present the second dossier coordinated by faculty and students in the PhD program in...
Essays
Teacher Unionism and the Bargain for the Common Good
Claire Cahen
- 6 July 2021
Rank-and-file teachers across the United States challenge their unions to embrace social democratic ideals, and...
Reviews
A Social Portrait of the Subprime Crisis
Camille François & translated by Oliver Waine
- 14 May 2021
What have been the social and urban consequences of the subprime mortgage crisis, and what lessons can be learned...
Reviews
The Ancestors of Pandemic Pets and Vector Animals
Lisa Jean Moore
- 11 May 2021
How has the place—and role—of animals in the city evolved over the last two centuries, and what bearing have these...
From the Field
Reflections on Four Years of Housing-Justice Support Work with Mapping Action Collective
Sachi Arakawa & Tim Hitchins
- 13 April 2021
Mapping Action Collective, based in Portland, Oregon, leverages mapping and data to support housing-justice...
Interviews
“Every Eviction is an Act of Violence”
Tara Raghuveer & Joshua Akers
- 23 March 2021
Josh Akers interviews researcher, organizer, and activist Tara Raghuveer about her work with KC Tenants in Kansas...
Interviews
Fighting for Housing Justice: An Interview with Two Youth Organizers in Curtis Bay, Baltimore
Nicole Fabricant & Carlos Sanchez & Terriq Thompson
- 16 March 2021
Two Baltimore youth organizers discuss the importance of community land trusts, for housing and beyond. Series:...
From the Field
Electoral Organizing During a Pandemic: Lessons from Wisconsin
Aaron Shapiro
- 12 January 2021
The global Covid‑19 pandemic has radically altered social and political practices. Aaron Shapiro reflects on the...
From the Field
Post-Election Dispatches from Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
Jamie Longazel
- 22 December 2020
Jamie Longazel reflects on organizing for the 2020 general election in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. A longtime...
From the Field
Cleaning and Care Worker Cooperatives in NYC: Empowerment Through Collectivization of Labor
Nora Komposch
- 8 December 2020
Worker cooperatives have been shown to reduce precariousness and economic exclusion of marginalized groups....
From the Field
The Financialization of Rent-Regulated Housing in New York City after Rent Reform
Benjamin F. Teresa
- 4 December 2020
In New York City, rent-controlled housing stock has been progressively deregulated over the last three decades, to...
From the Field
Sale of the Century: Chicago’s Infrastructure Deals and the Privatization State
Philip Ashton & Marc Doussard & Rachel Weber
- 24 November 2020
Since 2004, the City of Chicago has been engaged in a new wave of infrastructure privatizations, selling...
From the Field
The Contestations and Contradictions of the New York City Housing Authority’s Plan for Mixed-Income Redevelopment
Valerie E. Stahl
- 10 November 2020
The New York City Housing Authority, faced with a capital shortfall of nearly $40 billion, is pursuing a series of...
Interviews
Political Organizing Beyond the Election: An Interview with Rosa Saavedra in North Carolina
Rosa Saavedra & Edwin Mayorga
- 2 November 2020
Edwin Mayorga interviews organizer Rosa Saavedra from North Carolina. They discuss the political landscape and...
Interviews
Electoral Organizing in North Carolina: An Interview with Tomás Garduño
Tomás Garduño & Kate Selden
- 27 October 2020
Kate Selden interviews Tomás Garduño, a social-justice organizer, about his work in Lenoir County, North Carolina,...
Essays
The House is Ours: How Moms 4 Housing Challenged the Private-Property Paradigm
Lauren Everett
- 6 October 2020
In the midst of a global housing affordability crisis that has been heightened by the Covid‑19 pandemic, it is time...
Essays
Shelters for Profit, Not People: The Rise of Tax-Credit Investment in US Cities
Renee Tapp
- 22 September 2020
Tax-credit investment in US cities provides tax havens for investors, and squanders taxpayer resources on...
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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
Shrinking Cities
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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...
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...
Reviews
The Dangers of Security
Médéric Martin-Mazé & translated by Oliver Waine
- 22 May 2015
In Against Security, Harvey Molotch highlights – through various examples, including the New York subway, airports,...
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Strasbourg, An Example of a Cycling City
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