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From the Field
Excluding Fast and Slow: Charlottesville’s Long Battle over Public Space
Frank Muraca
- 9 January 2018
The “Unite the Right” white-supremacist rally in downtown Charlottesville, Virginia, erupted into violence, killing...
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
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...
From the Field
Projecting Supply and Demand for Middle-Skill Occupations in US States and Metro Areas
James Orr & Ofronama Biu
- 10 October 2017
Analysts have long noted difficulties in quantifying and projecting skill mismatches in local labor markets....
Essays
American Shrinking Cities May Not Need to Grow
Deborah E. Popper & Frank J. Popper
- 25 April 2017
Successful cities are expected to continually grow, and when this doesn’t happen, city managers typically try to...
From the Field
DIY Urbanism in Shrinking Cities: Or, What Neighbors Are Left With When Markets Withdraw and Governments Contract
Kimberley Kinder
- 27 March 2017
DIY culture is one of the zeitgeists of our time. Hipster home-brewing, swing-dance flash mobs, and pop-up maker...
Essays
The Arts as Fundamental—and Fragile—in Community Life
Andrew Zitcer & Julie Hawkins & Neville Vakharia
- 22 February 2017
Arts funding in America mirrors the inequality found in society more broadly. Yet amid persistent poverty and other...
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...
Reviews
Citadels, Cores, and Confetti: Urban Festivals in the New Political Economy of the Music Industry
Johan Jansson
- 5 January 2017
How have changes in the music industry—especially regarding the way music is produced and consumed today—affected...
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...
Essays
This is Not How it Ends: Post-Election Immigration Organizing in the United States
Folasade K. Famakinwa
- 7 December 2016
In response to a tense post-election moment in the US, the Metropolitics editorial committee has initiated...
From the Field
A Welcoming (and Sometimes Not) America: Immigrant Integration in the New South
Anna Joo Kim
- 1 November 2016
In a departure from traditional patterns of migrant settlement in the US, a cluster of ethnoburbs is emerging in...
Reviews
Restless Cities
Laura Wolf-Powers
- 25 October 2016
The world of downtown real-estate development seems to have a life of its own, independent of demand for space and...
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...
Debates
Climate Action Plans and the “Climate-Just” City
Cecelia Walsh-Russo
- 27 September 2016
In the face of major climatic changes, more and more US cities are developing climate action plans. But while these...
Reviews
Evictions and Poverty
Hilary Botein
- 28 June 2016
Matthew Desmond’s Evicted has drawn much-needed attention to the under-studied problem of unsubsidized rental...
Debates
Technocratic Values and Uneven Development in the “Smart City”
Taylor Shelton & Jennifer Clark
- 10 May 2016
In the US, the idea of “smart cities” is coming to dominate federal government involvement in, and funding for, urban...
Debates
More Affordable Transit Fares
Alexis Perrotta
- 26 April 2016
Low-income urban residents often struggle to afford transit fares. Seattle recently established half-fares for poor...
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
When Cities Fail, Babies Die
Monica J. Casper
- 2 February 2016
Detroit, Michigan is often identified as the worst city in the United States, with excessive poverty, racism, and...
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
Reskilling Urban Manufacturing: Workforce Solutions from the Inside Out
Nichola Lowe
- 15 December 2015
In the United States, a four-year college education has gradually come to be assumed as a prerequisite for entry...
From the Field
Federal Anti-Segregation Milestones Demand Local Mobilization
Justin Steil
- 24 November 2015
In June 2015, the US Supreme Court affirmed a legal tool that stands to hold municipalities and lenders accountable...
From the Field
Civic Innovation and Creative Campaigns: How Fresh Ideas Are Compromising Local Democracy
Stephanie Savell & Gianpaolo Baiocchi & Elizabeth A. Bennett & Alissa Cordner & Peter Taylor Klein
- 27 October 2015
The trend of civic innovation in contemporary activism relies much on modern tools of communication as a...
Debates
Hardening Racial Lines in Public Space
Naomi Adiv
- 7 July 2015
On Friday, June 5, Black teenagers in McKinney, Texas, were violently subdued by a police officer following a...
Debates
New York’s de Blasio bargains with FIRE
Tom Waters
- 16 June 2015
Frantic deal-making over an obscure but costly New York City real-estate tax incentive (421‑a) provides a window...
From the Field
Taking Research to the Streets
Jonathan R. Wynn & Richard E. Ocejo
- 9 June 2015
Residents of iconic neighborhoods in New York City have grown accustomed to walking tourism in their midst—clumps of...
From the Field
Clitoral Mass: A Women-of-Color Ride Through Los Angeles
Jennifer Candipan
- 2 June 2015
Every year in the summer, a group of women, women of color, and women-identified riders cycle through the city of...
Reviews
All the Gayborhoods are White
Marcus Anthony Hunter
- 19 May 2015
The urban “gayborhood,” the place where gay men and women found refuge for their sexuality from bigotry, is gradually...
Essays
In Cathedrals of Craft: Workplaces for the New Elite Service, Retail, and Manual Labor Jobs
Richard E. Ocejo
- 12 May 2015
As artisanal economies emerge in postindustrial cities, the symbolic language and craft culture of the industrial...
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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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How are cyclist and pedestrian deaths depicted in newspaper reports, and how do these reports help shape...
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Is Rationing Carbon for Travel a Fair, Efficient, and Realistic...
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Strasbourg, An Example of a Cycling City
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