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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...
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
Featured
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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