crisis

Essays

We Have Been Here Before: Crisis, Response, and the Stasis of Urban Policy

Robert W. Lake - 29 June 2021

The disruptions produced by the global pandemic have spawned predictions of sweeping change that are unlikely to...

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 and...

Series

Contemporary Housing Struggles: Crises, Activism, and Critical Research

Joshua Akers - 12 March 2021

In this series, Metropolitics focuses on the intersection of organizing, technology, politics, and policy in urban...

Interviews

Global Climate Crisis and the City: An Interview with Ashley Dawson

Ashley Dawson & Maura McGee - 3 April 2019

An interview with Ashley Dawson, professor of English at the College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center, CUNY,...

From the Field

The Ongoing Housing Crisis and the Rust Belt Revolt for the GOP

Elora Lee Raymond - 13 January 2017

In response to a tense post-election moment in the US, the Metropolitics editorial committee has initiated...

From the Field

Contesting Economies of Displacement and Dispossession

Joshua Akers - 13 January 2017

Joshua Akers describes Detroit’s housing crisis, characterized by speculation, displacement, and increasingly violent...

Essays

The Crisis of Geographical Imagination in Turkey

Luka Lucić - 21 June 2016

Ethnic, nationalistic and social tensions are at an all-time high in Turkey, exacerbated by the re‑emergence of the...

Reviews

Dawn of the Indebted: Zombie Neoliberalism Hits the Big Screen

Desiree Fields & Tom Gillespie - 8 March 2016

As the tremors of the 2008 crumbling US housing market were felt around the world, even the most astute couldn’t have...

From the Field

The participatory production of temporary public spaces in times of crisis

Paula Orduña-Giró & Sébastien Jacquot & translated by Oliver Waine - 8 May 2015

Are participatory measures a viable solution when it comes to developing urban spaces in times of crisis? According...

Reviews

Constructing Crises

Marla Nelson - 23 February 2015

A new book by Kevin Fox Gotham and Miriam Greenberg foregrounds the disturbing parallels between two seemingly...

Debates

Interrupting Inequality: Crisis and Opportunity in Low-Income Housing Policy

Susan Saegert - 26 January 2015

Inequality in the United States is deeply rooted in issues of property ownership, wealth, race and class....

Reviews

Detroit: Origins of the Urban Crisis Revisited

Andrew Newman - 24 November 2014

The recent reprint of Sugrue’s classic history of Detroit’s urban crisis highlights the roots of the city’s present...

Debates

Finance as a New Terrain for Progressive Urban Politics

Desiree Fields - 6 November 2014

Since the foreclosure crisis, inequalities have only deepened in the US, with most wealth accruing to the 1%. Desiree...

From the Field

The world of the blue-collar worker: changed, but not gone

Julian Mischi & Olivier Pasquiers & Caroline Pottier & Nicolas Renahy & translated by Oliver Waine - 19 February 2014

Despite deindustrialisation and increasingly acute economic difficulties in the former strongholds of heavy industry,...

From the Field

Post-industrial cities: towards a new approach

Max Rousseau & translated by Oliver Waine - 25 September 2013

While anglophone urban studies have sought to critique the way capitalism has developed, the French social sciences...

From the Field

“Soft densification” in Canada

Anastasia Touati & translated by Oliver Waine - 5 June 2013

Against the backdrop of a housing crisis, a number of local authorities in Ontario, Canada, have developed policies...

Debates

Access to home-ownership: what are the effects of the economic crisis?

Bernard Vorms & translated by Oliver Waine - 20 April 2011

A 70% home-ownership rate? This is the stated objective of the reform that has recently come into effect in France,...

Interviews

Towards a regional democracy?

Frédéric Dufaux & Edward W. Soja - 9 March 2011

To achieve a better democracy, Edward Soja defends the idea that we need to change the way we think about the social...

Interviews

The Geography of Financial Crisis

David Harvey & Nadine Roudil & Stéphane Tonnelat - 22 December 2010

David Harvey is a leading figure of the marxist critique of neoliberalism. During his last stay in France, in October...

We Have Been Here Before: Crisis, Response, and the Stasis of Urban Policy

A Social Portrait of the Subprime Crisis

Contemporary Housing Struggles: Crises, Activism, and Critical Research

Global Climate Crisis and the City: An Interview with Ashley Dawson

The Ongoing Housing Crisis and the Rust Belt Revolt for the GOP

Contesting Economies of Displacement and Dispossession

The Crisis of Geographical Imagination in Turkey

Dawn of the Indebted: Zombie Neoliberalism Hits the Big Screen

The participatory production of temporary public spaces in times of crisis

Constructing Crises

Interrupting Inequality: Crisis and Opportunity in Low-Income Housing Policy

Detroit: Origins of the Urban Crisis Revisited

Finance as a New Terrain for Progressive Urban Politics

The world of the blue-collar worker: changed, but not gone

Post-industrial cities: towards a new approach

“Soft densification” in Canada

Access to home-ownership: what are the effects of the economic crisis?

Towards a regional democracy?

The Geography of Financial Crisis

Series

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