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From the Field
Demystifying Urban Agriculture in Detroit
Flaminia Paddeu
- 14 December 2017
Urban agriculture projects in North American shrinking cities have been the subject of much media attention in...
From the Field
Who Stays and Who Leaves? Residential Flows in French Shrinking Cities
Mathilde Rudolph
- 1 November 2017
In focusing on residential flows, Mathilde Rudolph seeks to shed light on the processes of urban decline at play in...
From the Field
Shrinking to Survive? Demolition and Energy Transition in Small-Town France
Yoan Miot & Max Rousseau & translated by Oliver @Waine
- 18 October 2017
Faced with a process of advanced decline, public and private actors in the town of Vitry-le-François, in eastern...
From the Field
Shrinking Cities in France: The Cumulative Effects of Decline
Nicolas Cauchi-Duval & Frédérique Cornuau & Mathilde Rudolph & translated by Oliver @Waine
- 4 October 2017
In France, different shrinking cities have followed different trajectories. They nevertheless all have certain...
From the Field
Shrinking Networks, Growing Solidarities? How to Design a New Social and Territorial Contract
Daniel Florentin
- 27 September 2017
Utilities operators in a number of European cities, faced with significant reductions in consumption levels across...
Essays
Urban Shrinkage in France: An Invisible Issue?
Rémi Dormois & Sylvie Fol & translated by Oliver @Waine
- 13 September 2017
Although the phenomenon of urban shrinkage affects a significant number of French towns and cities, it is an issue...
Essays
Regeneration and the Legacy of Thatcherism
Juliet Carpenter
- 15 October 2014
What was Margaret Thatcher’s legacy in terms of the way inner-city areas are regenerated in the UK? Juliet Carpenter...
Essays
The effects of Thatcherism in the urban North of England
Mark Bailoni & translated by Oliver @Waine
- 2 April 2014
The economic policies of Margaret Thatcher’s governments polarised not just opinion but also whole swathes of the...
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...
Debates
New Orleans as a Rust Belt City?
Robert J. S. Ross
- 6 July 2011
New Orleans needs to recover not only from the 2005 catastrophic flooding of Katrina, but also from a much more...
Series
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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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...
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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