displacement

From the Field

The Brazilian Experience of Financialization Through Urban Redevelopment: The Case of “Urban Operations”

Laisa Eleonora Marostica Stroher - 1 December 2020
Laisa Stroher examines the history of large-scale urban regeneration projects in Brazil and shows how a policy...
Essays

When Measurement Matters: Displacement, Gentrification, Residential Mobility

H. Jacob Carlson - 14 April 2020
Scholarly studies of displacement resulting from gentrification are inconsistent in what they measure, and omit...
From the Field

Displacement, Demobilization, and Democracy: Current Eviction and Historic Dispossession in Richmond, Virginia

Kathryn Howell & Benjamin F. Teresa - 4 February 2020
High eviction rates in Black Richmond neighborhoods must be understood in the context of a long history of...
From the Field

Understanding the Causes of Eviction-Based Urban Displacement: Bringing Critical Urban Theory Back In

J. Revel Sims - 24 September 2019
Close analysis of eviction patterns in Dane County, Wisconsin, between 2000 and 2016 suggests that tenant poverty...
Reviews

Whose Bronx?: Decade of Fire Looks Back at a Complicated History of Neighborhood Abandonment and the Rise of Community Control in the South Bronx

Aly Hassell - 2 July 2019
Decade of Fire, a new documentary film by lifelong South Bronx resident and first-time filmmaker Vivian Vázquez...
From the Field

The Cost of Affordability: Inclusionary Zoning and Displacement in East New York

James Shelton - 20 March 2018
What are the impacts of New York City’s Mandatory Inclusionary Housing program upon low-income communities of color?...
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...
From the Field

Excluding Fast and Slow: Charlottesville’s Long Battle over Public Space

Frank Muraca - 9 January 2018
The “Unite the Right” white-supremacist rally in downtown Charlottesville, Virginia, erupted into violence, killing...
From the Field

Contesting Economies of Displacement and Dispossession

Joshua Akers - 13 January 2017
Joshua Akers describes Detroit’s housing crisis, characterized by speculation, displacement, and increasingly...
From the Field

The Hollowing-Out of New York City’s Industrial Zones

Tarry Hum - 16 February 2016
At a November 2015 press conference, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio vowed to take action to ensure that firms in the...
Debates

The Endangered Enclave

Mike Owen Benediktsson & Brian Lamberta & Sarah Van Norden - 6 October 2015
While most gentrification studies focus on residential displacement, businesses also suffer from rising rents and a...
Interviews

Professionalisation, gentrification and welfare reform: 20 years of socio-spatial change in London

Manuel Appert & Anaïs Collet & Chris Hamnett - 19 June 2013
The 2008 financial crisis called time on a long period of economic transformation in European cities that has seen...

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From the Field

Covid-19 Transformed New York’s Destination Food Markets

Ivana Mellers - 5 October 2021
Ivana Mellers analyzes how New York’s destination markets—key spaces of economic and social interactions—coped during...
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...
Reviews

Filming Ethnic Diversity in New York

Stéphane Tonnelat & translated by Christina Mitrakos - 21 October 2016
Frederick Wiseman’s fortieth documentary film, In Jackson Heights (2015), returns to an urban theme explored in...
From the Field

Looking Inward, Across the Border

Harel Shapira - 19 April 2016
In the constellation of anti-immigrant politics in the United States, groups like the Minutemen, civilians who...
Essays

The Political Aesthetics of Drag

Shaka McGlotten - 13 October 2015
Drag, or the diverse art form and culture of performance that typically plays with gender and sex, is an integral...
Debates

Disarm the Police

Gregory Smithsimon - 29 September 2015
In the current political debates about discriminatory policing, there has been a lack of serious discussion of...

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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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