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Essays

Marielle Franco and the Fight for the City Statute in Rio de Janeiro

Ty Redden - 14 February 2025

Marielle Franco’s 2018 assassination roiled social media and sent shockwaves through activist communities. The...

Interviews

A Place for Women

Françoise Debats & Maïté Debats & Marik Geurts & Aurélie Nat & translated by Oliver Waine - 21 January 2025

For over 40 years, a feminist association called Apiaf, based in Toulouse in southwestern France, has been working...

From the Field

Girls-Only Sport

Antoine Bréau & translated by Oliver Waine - 26 May 2023

Against a backdrop of gender inequalities at school, an experiment in the field of physical education shows that...

Debates

Where are the Women Architects?

Collectif Architoo & translated by Oliver Waine - 31 March 2023

At the 2020 edition of the Albums des jeunes architectes et paysagistes (AJAP) competition, organized by the French...

Essays

Consent-Based Social Dancing Spaces and the Right to the City

Rebecca Krisel - 30 June 2020

Consent-based programs in social dancing venues in New York City are an initial step in supporting social dancing as...

Debates

Masculine Sports and “Respectable” Men in Working-Class Neighborhoods

Carine Guérandel & translated by Oliver Waine - 12 March 2019

In a work rich in ethnographic material, Akim Oualhaci questions how socialization through sports contributes to the...

Debates

Fixing the Accessibility Gap in Municipal Procurement

Emily Holloway & Nicholas Shatan - 5 March 2019

How can minority- and women-owned businesses overcome structural disadvantages to building wealth through...

From the Field

Killing Them Softly: The Environmental Vulnerability of Black Women in Albany, New York

Tanesha A. Thomas - 23 October 2018

In Albany’s South End, a predominantly low-income African-American neighborhood, tanks storing environmentally...

From the Field

Invisible Lines in the Sand: Bather Arrests in Early 20th-Century Los Angeles

Elsa Devienne & translated by Oliver Waine - 13 July 2018

Can beaches reveal the tensions that run through society at a given moment in time? Here, Elsa Devienne shows how...

Debates

How Anti-Trans Bathroom Bills Hurt Girls and Women

C. Ray Borck - 16 May 2017

Do recent “bathroom bills” protect girls and women from sexual predators? Sociologist C. Ray Borck shows how—contrary...

From the Field

Liberty, Community and Religion: A Hispano-Moroccan Family in Andalusia

Alain Cottereau & translated by Oliver Waine - 11 October 2016

In Europe, the relationship that migrants originating from the Arab Muslim world – whether first- or...

Debates

Impossible Compliance: Policing as Violent Struggle over Bodies and Urban Space

Michelle Billies - 1 March 2016

The absence of charges brought in the case of a police murder of a Black lesbian in front of the homeless shelter...

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...

From the Field

Clitoral Mass: A Women-of-Color Ride Through Los Angeles

Jennifer Candipan - 2 June 2015

Every year in the summer, a group of women, women of color, and women-identified riders cycle through the city of Los...

Reviews

All the Gayborhoods are White

Marcus Anthony Hunter - 19 May 2015

The urban “gayborhood,” the place where gay men and women found refuge for their sexuality from bigotry, is gradually...

From the Field

Ambivalences of Gender Planning

Sandra Huning - 23 January 2013

How can a gender approach be integrated into urban planning? Sandra Huning here considers this question and presents...

From the Field

Children’s autonomy and our relationship with public spaces

Clément Rivière & translated by Oliver Waine - 7 November 2012

The relationship between children and the city – a subject seldom studied in France in the past – has in recent years...

Reviews

From home to the workplace: “Mad Men” or the irresistible rise of women

Nicole Rudolph - 14 March 2012

Mad Men is often viewed as the ultimate sexist TV series. Through an analysis of the behavior of men and women at...

From the Field

Gay populations as gentrifiers in Paris and Montreal

Colin Giraud & translated by Oliver Waine - 22 February 2012

Are “gay villages” a sign of gentrification? A comparison between the Marais in Paris – an area gentrified before...

From the Field

The Ladies Kingdom and Its Many Uses. A shopping mall in Riyadh for women only

Saba A. Le Renard & translated by Eric Rosencrantz - 30 March 2011

The frenetic development of Riyadh in Saudi Arabia is unveiling new and unexpected urban realms, including a shopping...

Debates

Homosexual City, Homophobic Banlieue?

Éric Fassin & translated by Christina Mitrakos - 9 March 2011

Is homophobia prevalent in social housing projects? Is sexual orientation the new divide between civilizations? Éric...

Marielle Franco and the Fight for the City Statute in Rio de Janeiro

A Place for Women

Girls-Only Sport

Where are the Women Architects?

Consent-Based Social Dancing Spaces and the Right to the City

Masculine Sports and “Respectable” Men in Working-Class Neighborhoods

Fixing the Accessibility Gap in Municipal Procurement

Killing Them Softly: The Environmental Vulnerability of Black Women in Albany, New York

Invisible Lines in the Sand: Bather Arrests in Early 20th-Century Los Angeles

How Anti-Trans Bathroom Bills Hurt Girls and Women

Liberty, Community and Religion: A Hispano-Moroccan Family in Andalusia

Impossible Compliance: Policing as Violent Struggle over Bodies and Urban Space

The Political Aesthetics of Drag

Clitoral Mass: A Women-of-Color Ride Through Los Angeles

All the Gayborhoods are White

Ambivalences of Gender Planning

Children’s autonomy and our relationship with public spaces

From home to the workplace: “Mad Men” or the irresistible rise of women

Gay populations as gentrifiers in Paris and Montreal

The Ladies Kingdom and Its Many Uses. A shopping mall in Riyadh for women only

Homosexual City, Homophobic Banlieue?

Series

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Covid-19 Transformed New York’s Destination Food Markets

Moving Inside City Limits: The Urban Mobility of Undocumented Youth

Filming Ethnic Diversity in New York

Looking Inward, Across the Border

The Political Aesthetics of Drag

Disarm the Police

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Saudi Arabia: How is Mobility Being Transformed in the Oil Kingdom?

Transport for Suburbia: Beyond the Automobile Age (Paul Mees)

Geopolitics and Electric Vehicles: The Rise of Climate Protectionism

One Way to Fight Rising Food Prices: Public Grocery Stores

The Quiet Power of Car-Free Neighborhoods

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