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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...
Reviews

Closed Quarters

William Helmreich - 13 December 2016
As we contemplate an era marked by official hostility to fair-housing laws, we would do well to heed the...
Debates

“Gentrification or ghetto”: making sense of an intellectual impasse

Anne Clerval & Mathieu Van Criekingen & translated by Oliver Waine - 29 January 2015
The debate on the causes, effects and extent of the “gentrification” of working-class neighbourhoods in the central...
Reviews

The importance of the neighborhood in Chicago and elsewhere

Eliza Benites-Gambirazio - 19 March 2014
The latest work by Robert Sampson, released to positive reviews, shows the sustainable effects of internal social...
Essays

Quotas of foreigners in social housing: a legacy of the Algerian War? Les Canibouts, Nanterre (1959–1968)

Marie-Claude Blanc-Chaléard & translated by Oliver Waine - 11 April 2012
Was it better to concentrate or disperse Algerians during the Algerian War? In the course of the conflict, both...
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

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...
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

Arts Districts Without Artists

Meghan Ashlin Rich - 23 March 2015
Numerous studies have examined gentrification’s harmful effects for low-income residents, but few examine the...
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

Kanal İstanbul: a “crazy project” serving political ambitions

Yoann Morvan & translated by Oliver Waine - 7 December 2011
The current proliferation of mega-projects in the Istanbul metropolitan area is both undeniable and impressive. The...

Other resources online

Are Homeless People “Vagrants”?

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The image of the “homeless person” is associated with the older figure of the wandering vagrant. In reality,...

Mobilities: The French Government Has to Back Up Its...

Mobile Lives Forum
In the field of transportation, France’s “ecological transition” is inadequate when it comes to meeting the challenges...

Twelve Discourses of Climate Delay in the Transportation...

Mobile Lives Forum
Perhaps one of the few good-news items of the 2020s is that climate denial is on its way out. In most of Europe, it...

Being a Bicycle Delivery Rider: Passion or Exploitation?

Mobile Lives Forum
In recent years, takeaway delivery has exploded, in a context where consumer practices are changing, last-mile...

Digital Nomads in the Era of the Covid‑19 Pandemic

Mobile Lives Forum
No longer deciding where you live based on where you work – that is the choice made by digital nomads, the traveling...

Personal Carbon Allowances for Travel: Is It Possible, Fair, and...

Mobile Lives Forum
Transportation is responsible for 30% of greenhouse-gas emissions in France, and this figure is constantly...
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