land

Essays

What Is Land?

Sai Balakrishnan & Mattijs van Maasakkers - 1 June 2021
Market-oriented land-use instruments presume that is possible to delink development or pollution rights from a...
Debates

Can the Commons Pave the Way to Greater Land Security?

Irène Salenson & Claire Simonneau & translated by Oliver Waine - 22 June 2018
Experiences of collective forms of ownership, based on the concept of the commons, have flourished throughout the...
From the Field

Land Regularization on the Fringes of Mexico City: A Recipe for Reducing Inequalities?

Jean-François Valette & translated by Oliver Waine - 8 June 2018
Mexico City’s working-class neighbourhoods are the focus of numerous land-regularization operations. Jean-François...
From the Field

Land Insecurity in Khartoum: When Land Titles Fail to Protect Against Public Predation

Alice Franck & translated by Oliver Waine - 6 June 2018
The unstable economic and political context in Sudan has encouraged people to invest massively in land in urban...
Series

Land Rights in the Urban Global South

Armelle Choplin & Éric Denis & translated by Oliver Waine - 18 May 2018
In choosing to focus on the Global South, Metropolitics turns its attention to a key aspect of contemporary cities:...
From the Field

Urban Desires and Lust for Land

Éric Denis & translated by Oliver Waine - 20 April 2018
In the Global South, vast swathes of periurban and agricultural land are being sold off and converted into...
Debates

Where Does Public Land Come From? Municipalization and Privatization Debates

Oksana Mironova & Samuel Stein - 6 March 2018
This article illuminates contemporary land-use and disposition struggles in New York City by tracing the history of...
From the Field

Land Titling: A Tool, not a Panacea

Kareem Ibrahim & Deena Khalil - 20 December 2016
The government of Egypt has long relied on land titling to limit the growth of informal urban residential...
From the Field

Securing Land Tenure in Egypt: Who Needs Registered Titles?

David Sims - 14 June 2016
David Sims challenges popular wisdom on property-rights regimes in non-Western nations by questioning the relevance...
Essays

The Wrecker’s Pick. The Rationales and Hidden Agendas of Urban Renewal in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Alain Faure & translated by Christina Mitrakos - 7 June 2016
Alain Faure, a scholar of the social history of cities, puts urban renewal into perspective. He questions 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....
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...
Debates

Why isn’t there enough housing in France?

Jean-Claude Driant & translated by Oliver Waine - 11 January 2012
The idea that France is experiencing a serious housing deficit, requiring a massive home-building policy is the...

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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
The Resurgence of Towers in European Cities
Children in the City
The Renewed Relevance of Urban-Planning Models?

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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...

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