housing projects

From the Field

In Norway, Housing Schemes Designed with Children in Mind

Grégoire Tortosa & translated by Oliver Waine - 22 November 2024

How can cities take more of a “child’s eye view”? Grégoire Tortosa shows how avant-garde housing developments in Oslo...

From the Field

Policing Social Housing in Paris: The Role of GPIS

Virginie Malochet & translated by Oliver Waine - 28 May 2021

Social landlords in France recently obtained the right to organize surveillance and security operations themselves...

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 their...

Debates

Can Cannabis Be Legalized in France Without Inflaming the Banlieues?

Christian Ben Lakhdar & Aymeric Reyre & translated by Oliver Waine - 5 July 2019

France is a place of paradoxes: cannabis is widely consumed, and yet legalization does not seem to be on the cards,...

From the Field

The complex representations of working-class residential towers

Rachid Kaddour & translated by Oliver Waine - 26 February 2016

Rachid Kaddour’s analysis of the trajectory of perceptions of the Plein‑Ciel tower in Saint‑Étienne in south-eastern...

Essays

Urban renewal and the “defensible space” model: the growing impact of security issues on the way our cities develop

Camille Gosselin & translated by Oliver Waine - 12 February 2016

In transforming the urban planning and architecture of social-housing estates, urban-renewal policies are not just...

Reviews

“Grands Ensembles”: Retracing a History of Rejection

Stéphane Füzesséry & translated by Oliver Waine - 15 January 2016

From its very beginnings, the urban model of the “grand ensemble” – the large-scale high-rise housing estate – has...

Essays

The “Dozois Plan”: lessons learned from urban-renewal policies and the history of urban planning in Montreal

Frédéric Mercure-Jolette & translated by Oliver Waine - 23 October 2015

Urban-renewal policies justify their actions by decrying neighbourhoods earmarked for demolition. Frédéric...

From the Field

Visual Sociology: Re-Imaging Marseille’s Housing Projects

William Kornblum - 10 July 2015

New York sociologist William Kornblum has brought back pictures of the Marseille Northern Housing Projects—the...

Debates

Using heritage status to combat segregation: the case of French housing estates

Marc Bertier & Hervé Marchal & Jean-Marc Stébé & translated by Oliver Waine - 22 October 2014

Challenging the idea that demolishing housing estates is all it takes to eradicate the social problems with which...

Reviews

Social housing in New York

François Bonnet & translated by Oliver Waine - 22 January 2014

Is high-rise public housing doomed to demolition? A book and article by historian Nicholas Dagen Bloom, focusing on...

Reviews

The history of social housing revisited

Christine Mengin & translated by Oliver Waine - 30 November 2011

Since the end of the 19th century, how have residents’ wishes been taken into account by the public authorities...

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

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...

In Norway, Housing Schemes Designed with Children in Mind

Policing Social Housing in Paris: The Role of GPIS

Covid-19, War, and Working-Class Neighborhoods

Can Cannabis Be Legalized in France Without Inflaming the Banlieues?

The complex representations of working-class residential towers

Urban renewal and the “defensible space” model: the growing impact of security issues on the way our cities develop

“Grands Ensembles”: Retracing a History of Rejection

The “Dozois Plan”: lessons learned from urban-renewal policies and the history of urban planning in Montreal

Visual Sociology: Re-Imaging Marseille’s Housing Projects

Using heritage status to combat segregation: the case of French housing estates

Social housing in New York

The history of social housing revisited

“Ghetto,” “Banishment,” “Neighborhood Effects.” A Critique of the “Ghetto” Image of French Housing Projects

The New French Ghettos

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