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In Norway, Housing Schemes Designed with Children in Mind

Grégoire Tortosa & translated by Oliver Waine - 22 November 2024

How can cities take more of a “child’s eye view”? Grégoire Tortosa shows how avant-garde housing developments in Oslo...

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...

In Norway, Housing Schemes Designed with Children in Mind

Covid-19, War, and Working-Class Neighborhoods

Can Cannabis Be Legalized in France Without Inflaming the Banlieues?

The complex representations of working-class residential towers

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

“Grands Ensembles”: Retracing a History of Rejection

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

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

Splitting suburban homes

“Soft densification” in Canada

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

The history of social housing revisited

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

The New French Ghettos

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