deindustrialization

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

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
The Resurgence of Towers in European Cities

Featured

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

Suburban living the worst for carbon emissions – new research

The Conversation
Work, education, entertainment, or simply better connectivity all draw people to cities. By the end of this...

When New Lifestyles Disrupt Daily Mobility in England

Mobile Lives Forum
Thanks to new “remote” practices enabled by the development of teleworking and online shopping, we can perform our...

Autonomous Vehicles: What Role Can They Play in the Mobility...

Mobile Lives Forum
At a time when companies and governments are focusing all their energy on innovation, autonomous vehicles seem to...

Call for Papers | Southern Diaries: Mobilities Research in the...

Mobile Lives Forum
“Southern Diaries” is a space on the Mobile Lives Forum website that promotes mobilities research in the Global...

“Manuel de sociologie des mobilités géographiques”, by Leslie...

Mobile Lives Forum
While mobility in all its forms has been the subject of an increasing amount of research over the past 20 years,...

History of the Concept of Mobility

Mobile Lives Forum
Defining mobility is especially important because the term is highly polysemous. When geographers use the term...
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