economic development

Reviews

Institutional Readings on Zoning

Jamaal Green - 20 November 2020
A new edited volume on zoning approaches the subject as a tool of planning, part of a network of institutions and...
Debates

Post–Amazon HQ2 Incentive Reform: We can have good deals—but not without transparency and meaningful public participation

Mary Donegan - 21 May 2019
What does the collapse of New York City’s Amazon HQ2 deal mean for the future of economic development incentive...
Essays

Bargain hunting in the “small-commodity city” of Yiwu, China

Alison Hulme - 10 November 2015
China’s rise in the global economy has been largely based on the manufacturing of both cheap and expensive goods....
Essays

Territorial Equality in France: A Historical Perspective

Matthew Wendeln - 4 June 2014
Once the basis of French regional planning, the goal of national balance has made a comeback in France under the...

Series

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
Children in the City
The Renewed Relevance of Urban-Planning Models?
Nature in the City

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From the Field

Arts Districts Without Artists

Meghan Ashlin Rich - 23 March 2015
Numerous studies have examined gentrification’s harmful effects for low-income residents, but few examine the...
Debates

Interrupting Inequality: Crisis and Opportunity in Low-Income Housing Policy

Susan Saegert - 26 January 2015
Inequality in the United States is deeply rooted in issues of property ownership, wealth, race and class....
Debates

Kanal İstanbul: a “crazy project” serving political ambitions

Yoann Morvan & translated by Oliver Waine - 7 December 2011
The current proliferation of mega-projects in the Istanbul metropolitan area is both undeniable and impressive. The...

Other resources online

Removing Paris’s Périphérique Ring Road: Towards More Sustainable...

Mobile Lives Forum
For the 2020 Paris municipal elections, many proposals and claims were made regarding the future of the...

Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Mobility: What are the Right...

Mobile Lives Forum
In 2019, transport accounted for 30% of greenhouse gases in France, discounting international travel. Far from...

“We need to boost public-transport supply and limit car use in...

Mobile Lives Forum
Reducing our CO2 emissions by 60% within 10 years, as the European Parliament aims to do, requires an unprecedented...

Travelling Less to Travel Better!

Mobile Lives Forum
Before the Covid crisis, the more we travelled, the better: mobility was not only supposed to enable daily...

Call for papers – Mobile Lives Forum website

Mobile Lives Forum
As more and more countries impose new restrictions or even second lockdowns, we are more aware than ever of the...

Second Edition of the New Voices Prize

Mobile Lives Forum
The Mobile Lives Forum has launched its second “New Voices” Award for master’s and doctoral students, in order to...
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