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Cities in the Age of Financialization
Martine Drozdz & Antoine Guironnet & Ludovic Halbert & translated by James Christopher @Mizes & Oliver @Waine
- 18 June 2021
Over the past four decades, the financialization of capitalism has transformed economies, societies, and urban...
Reviews
Planning Metropolitan Australia
Margot Abord de Chatillon
- 9 April 2019
In Planning Metropolitan Australia, Stephen Hamnett and Robert Freestone shed welcome light on the way Australia’s...
From the Field
The Risk of “Foodwashing” in Calls for Innovative Urban Projects
Paula Macé Le Ficher & translated by Oliver @Waine
- 22 February 2019
Paula Macé Le Ficher analyzes the ways in which farming and food issues have been integrated into calls for...
From the Field
Shanghai’s West Bund Cultural Corridor Exemplifies the Opportunities and Risks of State-Driven Cultural Development
Siqi Tu
- 8 May 2018
The West Bund Cultural Corridor in Shanghai is the latest entrant in a global competition to attract investment by...
Reviews
New York’s Soul for Sale: Raising the Rent on Lunch Counters and Counterculture
Benjamin Terrall
- 13 February 2018
Vanishing New York is Jeremiah Moss’s loving chronicle of the neighborhoods, characters, bars, and corner...
Debates
The Cost of Good Intentions: Planning Gridlock in San Francisco
David Prowler
- 30 January 2018
The culture of protest that marked development and planning in San Francisco during the 1970s and 1980s was a...
From the Field
The Boys of Sarajevo’s War Tunnel
Luka Lucić
- 12 January 2016
What are the impacts of war upon young people’s psychological development? Research with young men who survived...
Essays
The Tokyo skyline, or the hidden order behind opportunistic construction
Raphaël Languillon-Aussel & translated by Oliver @Waine
- 13 November 2015
Behind the apparent disorder, Tokyo’s current skyline in fact complies with complex rules. While the first towers in...
Essays
The “Dozois Plan”: lessons learned from urban-renewal policies and the history of urban planning in Montreal
Frédéric Mercure-Jolette & translated by Oliver @Waine
- 23 October 2015
Urban-renewal policies justify their actions by decrying neighbourhoods earmarked for demolition. Frédéric...
Essays
Programming play into public space?
Sonia Curnier & translated by Oliver @Waine
- 20 March 2015
With the rise of the “ludic city”, the work of Roger Caillois and Marc Breviglieri allows us to question the...
From the Field
The burst bubble and the privatisation of planning in Tokyo
Raphaël Languillon-Aussel & translated by Oliver @Waine
- 5 February 2014
Since the early 1990s and the collapse of Japan’s asset price bubble, developments in Marunouchi – Tokyo’s main...
From the Field
Santa Claus: Planner of the ’Pole
Marc Lohez & translated by Oliver @Waine
- 19 December 2012
Since the 1960s, the legend of Santa Claus has been a driving force for Lapland’s territorial development. The image...
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
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...
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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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