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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...
Debates

Can Cannabis Be Legalized in France Without Inflaming the Banlieues?

Christian Ben Lakhdar & Aymeric Reyre & translated by Oliver Waine - 5 July 2019
France is a place of paradoxes: cannabis is widely consumed, and yet legalization does not seem to be on the cards,...
From the Field

The complex representations of working-class residential towers

Rachid Kaddour & translated by Oliver Waine - 26 February 2016
Rachid Kaddour’s analysis of the trajectory of perceptions of the Plein‑Ciel tower in Saint‑Étienne in south-eastern...
Essays

Urban renewal and the “defensible space” model: the growing impact of security issues on the way our cities develop

Camille Gosselin & translated by Oliver Waine - 12 February 2016
In transforming the urban planning and architecture of social-housing estates, urban-renewal policies are not just...
Reviews

“Grands Ensembles”: Retracing a History of Rejection

Stéphane Füzesséry & translated by Oliver Waine - 15 January 2016
From its very beginnings, the urban model of the “grand ensemble” – the large-scale high-rise housing estate – has...
Reviews

The “ordinary” Italian suburbs: exploring the apartment buildings of the middle classes

Thomas Pfirsch & translated by Oliver Waine - 11 December 2014
Through the detailed histories of 23 apartment buildings and their inhabitants, a team of historians and architects...
Debates

Using heritage status to combat segregation: the case of French housing estates

Marc Bertier & Hervé Marchal & Jean-Marc Stébé & translated by Oliver Waine - 22 October 2014
Challenging the idea that demolishing housing estates is all it takes to eradicate the social problems with which...
From the Field

Splitting suburban homes

Anne-Claire Davy & Peggy Mertiny & Mélanie Richard & translated by Oliver Waine - 1 October 2014
Many local stakeholders in the Paris region have expressed concern regarding the emergence of a process of...
From the Field

“Soft densification” in Canada

Anastasia Touati & translated by Oliver Waine - 5 June 2013
Against the backdrop of a housing crisis, a number of local authorities in Ontario, Canada, have developed policies...
Essays

Explaining the periurban right-wing vote: “social frustrations” of low-income households or the reshaping of the working classes?

Violaine Girard & translated by Oliver Waine - 13 June 2012
There is a growing interest in voting patterns in periurban areas, which tend to lean to the right or even far...
Reviews

The history of social housing revisited

Christine Mengin & translated by Oliver Waine - 30 November 2011
Since the end of the 19th century, how have residents’ wishes been taken into account by the public authorities...
Essays

“Ghetto,” “Banishment,” “Neighborhood Effects.” A Critique of the “Ghetto” Image of French Housing Projects

Pierre Gilbert & translated by Eric Rosencrantz - 23 March 2011
Are residents of French housing projects really “banished” to their neighborhoods and kept in “confinement” there?...
Debates

The New French Ghettos

Hervé Marchal & Jean-Marc Stébé & translated by Eric Rosencrantz - 16 December 2010
Are housing projects in France – particularly the French slums euphemistically termed Zones Urbaines Sensibles (ZUS...

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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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