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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...
Essays
Community-Rooted Organizations: Enhanced Accountability and Capacity Building for Community Development
Camryn Smith & Danielle Spurlock & Aliyah Abdur-Rahman & Kay Jowers
- 10 July 2020
Communities in Partnership, in Durham, North Carolina, uses a “community-rooted” approach to its work that leverages...
Essays
Reflections on Retooling for the Covid‑19 Pandemic
Nichola Lowe & Tara Vinodrai
- 19 June 2020
Factories are adapting to the new conditions and needs the coronavirus has introduced by retooling production lines...
Reviews
Confronting Police Violence and an Unjust Justice System
Michele Graham
- 19 May 2020
We publish Michele Graham’s review of the 2018 book The War on Neighborhoods: Policing, Prison, and Punishment in a...
Essays
The New Suburban Secession: A Postfascist Turn in Atlanta’s Cityhood Movement
Coleman Allums & Scott Markley
- 10 March 2020
In this essay, Coleman Allums and Scott Markley analyze a suburban secessionist movement in Atlanta, Georgia. They...
From the Field
From Transit to Settlement. A Mexican Border Town’s Transition from a Transit Space to a Waiting Territory
Isabel Gil-Everaert
- 3 March 2020
Tanapan, a border town in southern Mexico has long been a point of passage for Central American migrants bound for...
From the Field
Displacement, Demobilization, and Democracy: Current Eviction and Historic Dispossession in Richmond, Virginia
Kathryn Howell & Benjamin F. Teresa
- 4 February 2020
High eviction rates in Black Richmond neighborhoods must be understood in the context of a long history of...
Essays
New York Tech Dossier: Insecure Frontier Jobs? Staying Relevant in New York’s Tech Ecosystem
Max Papadantonakis
- 21 January 2020
“Frontier” jobs in digital technologies promise lucrative career paths, but Max Papadantonakis’s research suggests...
Essays
New York Tech Dossier: The Declining Significance of Proximity in Venture Capital Investments
Joanna Dressel
- 14 January 2020
Venture capital investment in New York City has increased over the last decade, contributing to the development of...
Essays
New York Tech Dossier: “Innovation Districts” in New York: Contentious Geographies of Growth
Sharon Zukin
- 7 January 2020
Sharon Zukin analyzes how city government in New York has supported concentrations of tech firms—“innovation...
Reviews
Understanding School Closures in Chicago: A Review of Eve Ewing’s
Ghosts in the Schoolyard
Ryan M. Good
- 17 December 2019
Eve Ewing’s Ghosts in the Schoolyard portrays recent school reform efforts in Chicago through the eyes of those...
Reviews
Black Homeownership Under Racial Capitalism: A Review of Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s
Race for Profit
Hilary Botein
- 10 December 2019
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s Race for Profit examines the urban homeownership programs of the 1960s and 1970s, and...
Reviews
The Just Transition, Economic Democracy, and the Green New Deal
Evan Casper-Futterman & Jason Spicer
- 5 November 2019
Can participatory and economic democracy in the US support a Green New Deal? Evan Casper‑Futterman and Jason Spicer...
Debates
What Does a Just Housing Plan Look Like? NYC and National Housing Movements Show the Way
Oksana Mironova & Sylvia Morse
- 22 October 2019
How could we develop a housing plan that is not rooted in capitalism? Oksana Mironova and Sylvia Morse describe how...
From the Field
Community Movements and Housing Liberalism: Reflections on the Bank of America Low‑Income Housing Competition
Avi Garelick
- 15 October 2019
Avi Garelick describes how the imperative for realism in affordable housing production conflicts with the goals of...
Reviews
Why School Securitization Fails. Lessons from Morrill and Musheno’s
Navigating Conflict
Andrés Besserer Rayas
- 8 October 2019
Navigating Conflict describes how pupils are able to address conflicts on their own, and how school securitization...
Reviews
Incarceration, Human Rights, and Health:
Life and Death in Rikers Island
Tawana Anthony
- 25 June 2019
Tawana Anthony applauds Homer Venters’ Life and Death in Rikers Island for exposing the institutional indifference...
Essays
From non-planning to cutting-edge policy: the transformation of waste management in Boston since the 1980s
Lily Baum Pollans
- 11 June 2019
Recycling and composting are hot topics. Lily Baum Pollans argues that Boston’s changing approach to waste...
Debates
Post–Amazon HQ2 Incentive Reform: We can have good deals—but not without transparency and meaningful public participation
Mary Donegan
- 21 May 2019
What does the collapse of New York City’s Amazon HQ2 deal mean for the future of economic development incentive...
Essays
Urban Renewal in the USA: A Neoliberal Policy?
Thomas Kirszbaum & translated by Oliver Waine
- 3 May 2019
By allowing demolitions and evictions in well-located working-class neighborhoods, urban renewal is sometimes...
Debates
Masculine Sports and “Respectable” Men in Working-Class Neighborhoods
Carine Guérandel & translated by Oliver Waine
- 12 March 2019
In a work rich in ethnographic material, Akim Oualhaci questions how socialization through sports contributes to...
Debates
Fixing the Accessibility Gap in Municipal Procurement
Emily Holloway & Nicholas Shatan
- 5 March 2019
How can minority- and women-owned businesses overcome structural disadvantages to building wealth through...
From the Field
Bare Mountaintops and Thirsty Cities: On California and its Snowpack
Sayd Randle
- 29 January 2019
Figuring how to represent the oncoming effects of climate change is a common challenge faced by whistleblowers and...
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...
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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
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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...
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...
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Cycles of Violence: Analysing Media Discourse in the Newspaper...
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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...
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Is Rationing Carbon for Travel a Fair, Efficient, and Realistic...
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Reducing Carbon-Emitting Travel: A Factor of Social Cohesion and...
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Strasbourg, An Example of a Cycling City
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The Trinity of Walking, Cycling and Public Transportation Must Be...
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