development

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...
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...

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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