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A Social Portrait of the Subprime Crisis
Camille François & translated by Oliver Waine
- 14 May 2021
What have been the social and urban consequences of the subprime mortgage crisis, and what lessons can be learned...
Series
Contemporary Housing Struggles: Crises, Activism, and Critical Research
Joshua Akers
- 12 March 2021
In this series, Metropolitics focuses on the intersection of organizing, technology, politics, and policy in urban...
Reviews
Dawn of the Indebted: Zombie Neoliberalism Hits the Big Screen
Desiree Fields & Tom Gillespie
- 8 March 2016
As the tremors of the 2008 crumbling US housing market were felt around the world, even the most astute couldn’t...
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
Finance as a New Terrain for Progressive Urban Politics
Desiree Fields
- 6 November 2014
Since the foreclosure crisis, inequalities have only deepened in the US, with most wealth accruing to the 1%....
Debates
Access to home-ownership: what are the effects of the economic crisis?
Bernard Vorms & translated by Oliver Waine
- 20 April 2011
A 70% home-ownership rate? This is the stated objective of the reform that has recently come into effect in France,...
Interviews
Towards a regional democracy?
Frédéric Dufaux & Edward W. Soja
- 9 March 2011
To achieve a better democracy, Edward Soja defends the idea that we need to change the way we think about the...
Interviews
The Geography of Financial Crisis
David Harvey & Nadine Roudil & Stéphane Tonnelat
- 22 December 2010
David Harvey is a leading figure of the marxist critique of neoliberalism. During his last stay in France, in...
Series
Black Power and Black Self-Determination in a New Time and New Spaces
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
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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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