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...
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,...
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...
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...
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%....
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...
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...
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...

Series

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

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...
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...

Other resources online

Cycles of Violence: Analysing Media Discourse in the Newspaper...

Mobile Lives Forum
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...

Mobile Lives Forum
The city of Lahti in Finland was the first to experiment with a carbon-trading scheme among its inhabitants to...

Is Rationing Carbon for Travel a Fair, Efficient, and Realistic...

Mobile Lives Forum
In the wake of the pandemic, a carbon tax at Europe’s borders is now on the agenda, but a domestic version for...

Reducing Carbon-Emitting Travel: A Factor of Social Cohesion and...

Mobile Lives Forum
As part of France’s Mission on the Future of the Economic Model of Public Transportation, commissioned by the French...

Strasbourg, An Example of a Cycling City

Mobile Lives Forum
Strasbourg is the leading city for cycling in France and a constant source of inspiration for all French cities...

The Trinity of Walking, Cycling and Public Transportation Must Be...

Mobile Lives Forum
While emissions from the transportation sector remain at a very high level, all hopes are currently pinned on the...
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