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From the Field
Digital Technology and the City: New Forms of Urban Segregation in Cape Town?
Julien Migozzi & translated by Oliver Waine
- 23 June 2023
In the age of platform capitalism, how is digital technology reconfiguring real-estate markets and access to...
Essays
A Global Right-to-Housing Movement Versus Financialization
Jaime Jover
- 23 June 2021
Financialization enables a wealthy transnational class to accumulate capital through land, enhances inequalities...
Series
Cities in the Age of Financialization
Martine Drozdz & Antoine Guironnet & Ludovic Halbert & translated by James Christopher Mizes & Oliver Waine
- 18 June 2021
Over the past four decades, the financialization of capitalism has transformed economies, societies, and urban...
From the Field
The Financialization of Rent-Regulated Housing in New York City after Rent Reform
Benjamin F. Teresa
- 4 December 2020
In New York City, rent-controlled housing stock has been progressively deregulated over the last three decades, to...
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...
From the Field
Fragile Financialization: The Struggle for Power and Control in Indian Real-Estate Investment
Llerena Guiu Searle
- 27 November 2020
How does the financialization of real estate—a global phenomenon—affect urban development in India? In this...
From the Field
Sale of the Century: Chicago’s Infrastructure Deals and the Privatization State
Philip Ashton & Marc Doussard & Rachel Weber
- 24 November 2020
Since 2004, the City of Chicago has been engaged in a new wave of infrastructure privatizations, selling...
Reviews
Nature’s Worth: Using Human Markets to Value Ecosystems’ Contributions
Anna Krol & Lisa Jean Moore
- 20 February 2018
Mattijs van Maasakkers’ The Creation of Markets for Ecosystem Services in the United States: The Challenge of...
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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