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We Have Been Here Before: Crisis, Response, and the Stasis of Urban Policy
Robert W. Lake
- 29 June 2021
The disruptions produced by the global pandemic have spawned predictions of sweeping change that are unlikely to...
Interviews
What Has Happened in Berlin Since 1989?
Thibaut de Ruyter & Olivier Gaudin & translated by Oliver Waine
- 12 June 2020
Since the fall of the Wall in November 1989, Berlin has metamorphosed into one of the world’s most popular urban...
Essays
Educating Tenants: A Historic Remit of Social Housing
Danièle Voldman & translated by Oliver Waine
- 17 April 2020
In France, the professions of social worker and concierge both emerged in the early 20th century, and both...
Reviews
Aubervilliers: Portrait of a Working-Class Suburb
Anaïs Albert & translated by Oliver Waine
- 21 February 2020
The republication of an early-20th‑century realist novel set in the northern Paris suburb of Aubervilliers brings...
Debates
The Limits of the Accepted Orthodoxy on Rent Control
Loïc Bonneval & François Robert & translated by Oliver Waine
- 22 March 2019
In response to a recent critique of their work, Loïc Bonneval and François Robert defend their method and results. In...
Essays
As NYC (Again) Considers Comprehensive Planning, History Offers Insight
K. C. Alvey
- 12 February 2019
Comprehensive planning can be a progressive governance tool, helping leaders keep broad principles like equity and...
Reviews
Photographing the Slums of 1900s Berlin
Danièle Voldman & translated by Oliver Waine
- 14 September 2018
At the turn of the 20th century, the dramatically poor conditions of urban working-class housing was a cause of...
Reviews
Miscounting Americans Correctly: Post-Truth as a Guide to Race and the US Census
Gregory Smithsimon
- 12 June 2018
Paul Schor’s book Counting Americans demonstrates that, in the hands of the US Census Bureau, the concept of race...
Essays
Looking Forward to 2020 While Looking Back: A Brief History of the US Census
Frank Donnelly
- 27 February 2018
As preparations for the 2020 census are under way in the United States, Frank Donnelly looks back at how the census...
Essays
Looking Backward into the Future of New York
Ted Steinberg
- 12 January 2015
Can the lesson of Hurricane Sandy dampen the enthusiasm of New York City’s growth machine? Ted Steinberg, author of...
Reviews
Entry into the Anthropocene
André Micoud & translated by Oliver Waine
- 20 November 2014
Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, backed up by an impressive amount of data, trace the history of our...
Reviews
History of Modern Architecture Revisited
Karla Britton
- 3 October 2012
The latest work by Jean-Louis Cohen is an original contribution to the history of modern architecture. His fresh...
Series
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
Shrinking Cities
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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...
Essays
Sentinel Territories: A New Concept for Looking at Environmental Change
David Blanchon & Frédéric Keck & François-Michel Le Tourneau & Stéphane Tonnelat & Adriana Zuniga-Teran
- 8 May 2020
In this essay, the authors develop the concept of “sentinel territories,” or environments where humans can perceive...
From the Field
Who Cleans Paris? Garbage Collectors in Their Own Words
Coline Ferrant & Marie Mourad & translated by Oliver Waine
- 21 June 2019
Who are Paris’s garbage collectors? Coline Ferrant and Marie Mourad highlight the diverse working conditions covered...
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...
Interviews
Teaching Art and the History of Tattoos at Rikers Island: An Interview with Tamara...
Lisa Jean Moore
- 22 January 2019
An interview with Tamara Santibanez, who teaches art and the cultural and social history of tattoos to youth...
From the Field
Snowbirds’ Gift Economy in the Arizona Desert
David Frati
- 7 November 2017
Each year, 200,000 retired people spend the winter in and around the small town of Quartzsite, Arizona, in the...
Other resources online
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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