development

From the Field

The Postponed Tokyo 2020 Games: From Planning Conflicts to Covid

Raphaël Languillon-Aussel & translated by Oliver Waine - 9 September 2022

One of the many consequences of the Covid‑19 pandemic was the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, held in summer...

Series

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 space....

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...

The Postponed Tokyo 2020 Games: From Planning Conflicts to Covid

Cities in the Age of Financialization

Planning Metropolitan Australia

The Risk of “Foodwashing” in Calls for Innovative Urban Projects

Shanghai’s West Bund Cultural Corridor Exemplifies the Opportunities and Risks of State-Driven Cultural Development

New York’s Soul for Sale: Raising the Rent on Lunch Counters and Counterculture

The Cost of Good Intentions: Planning Gridlock in San Francisco

The Boys of Sarajevo’s War Tunnel

The Tokyo skyline, or the hidden order behind opportunistic construction

The “Dozois Plan”: lessons learned from urban-renewal policies and the history of urban planning in Montreal

Programming play into public space?

The burst bubble and the privatisation of planning in Tokyo

Santa Claus: Planner of the ’Pole

Series

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Moving Inside City Limits: The Urban Mobility of Undocumented Youth

Filming Ethnic Diversity in New York

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The Political Aesthetics of Drag

Disarm the Police

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