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Essays
Breaking Down the NYPD: How Reconsidering Political District Maps Could Open New Doors to Police Accountability
Toby Irving
- 16 February 2024
Efforts to stem the power of the NYPD and the violence such power facilitates require accountability to the people of...
Reviews
(Re)Constructing Inequality: Community Development in Public and Private
Claire Dunning
- 14 December 2021
Claire Dunning reviews Jeremy R. Levine’s new book, Constructing Community, an ethnographic study of community...
Interviews
In Search of Grand Paris: Pierre Mansat on the Eve of the June 2020 Municipal Elections
Magda Maaoui & Pierre Mansat
- 26 June 2020
Magda Maaoui interviews Pierre Mansat, former deputy mayor of Paris and a founding father of “le Grand Paris” (the...
From the Field
Inclusive Place-Based Leadership: Lesson-Drawing from Urban Governance Innovations in Bristol, UK
Robin Hambleton
- 9 October 2018
Across the world, progressive city leaders are working to limit the damaging impact of decisions made by “placeless”...
Reviews
Jerusalem: divisive urban planning at the heart of the Holy City
Vincent Lemire & translated by Oliver Waine
- 19 June 2015
How is the Israeli–Palestinian conflict reflected in the way the city of Jerusalem has been planned and developed? In...
Reviews
Northern Mafias: the territorial spread of organised crime in Italy
Fabrizio Maccaglia & translated by Oliver Waine
- 26 February 2015
The presence of Mafia organisations outside the Mezzogiorno, long downplayed by the Italian public authorities, has...
Debates
Is rurality a thing of the past?
Philippe Dubourg & translated by Oliver Waine
- 8 January 2015
In the era of globalisation and metropolisation, is rurality an old-fashioned concept, a thing of the past? The...
From the Field
The mixed success of Toronto’s metropolitan merger
Guillaume Poiret & translated by Oliver Waine
- 20 November 2013
While the debate on local-government reform rages on in France, Guillaume Poiret looks back at the municipal mergers...
Reviews
The role of proximities in improving territorial governance
Lise Bourdeau-Lepage & translated by Oliver Waine
- 10 July 2013
What can be done to improve territorial governance? André Torre and Jean-Eudes Beuret emphasise the role of proximity...
Debates
The Negotiated Urbanism of Grand Paris Express
Lara Belkind
- 12 June 2013
In the fragmented context of Paris’s metropolitan and regional politics, the Grand Pari(s) design consultation and...
Debates
When agriculture meets the city…
André Torre & Lise Bourdeau-Lepage & translated by Oliver Waine
- 10 April 2013
In this article, André Torre and Lise Bourdeau-Lepage consider the role of nature in the city through the prism of...
Reviews
The politics of municipal mergers (and demergers) in Montreal
Richard Harris
- 6 March 2013
In the late 1990s, the province of Quebec reacted to metropolitan growth in Montreal by merging the city with 27 of...
Debates
Participatory democracy in large-scale contexts: citizen participation in urban planning in Paris and Córdoba
Héloïse Nez & translated by Oliver Waine
- 19 October 2011
Participatory urban planning often comes up against the question of scale, with local councillors accepting to...
Series
Horizons in the Housing Struggle
Black Power and Black Self-Determination in a New Time and New Spaces
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
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From the Field
Covid-19 Transformed New York’s Destination Food Markets
Ivana Mellers
- 5 October 2021
Ivana Mellers analyzes how New York’s destination markets—key spaces of economic and social interactions—coped during...
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 New...
Reviews
Filming Ethnic Diversity in New York
Stéphane Tonnelat & translated by Christina Mitrakos
- 21 October 2016
Frederick Wiseman’s fortieth documentary film, In Jackson Heights (2015), returns to an urban theme explored in...
From the Field
Looking Inward, Across the Border
Harel Shapira
- 19 April 2016
In the constellation of anti-immigrant politics in the United States, groups like the Minutemen, civilians who patrol...
Essays
The Political Aesthetics of Drag
Shaka McGlotten
- 13 October 2015
Drag, or the diverse art form and culture of performance that typically plays with gender and sex, is an integral...
Debates
Disarm the Police
Gregory Smithsimon
- 29 September 2015
In the current political debates about discriminatory policing, there has been a lack of serious discussion of...
Other resources online
“Our hallway’s big enough to play football in!” The council housing...
The Guardian
Boasting two-sink kitchens, Tower Court in north London is tailored for the Haredi Jewish community – but its...
Saudi Arabia: How is Mobility Being Transformed in the Oil Kingdom?
Mobile Lives Forum
04 April 2025, by Aniss Mouad Mezoued The launch of the Riyadh metro in late November 2024 once again highlighted...
Transport for Suburbia: Beyond the Automobile Age (Paul Mees)
Mobile Lives Forum
27 March 2025, by Javier Caletrío Can suburbia avoid car dependence? Can low-density areas enjoy first-rate public...
Geopolitics and Electric Vehicles: The Rise of Climate Protectionism
Mobile Lives Forum
17 February 2025, by Xabier Gangoiti and Graham Parkhurst The electric vehicle (EV) revolution is not just a...
One Way to Fight Rising Food Prices: Public Grocery Stores
The New Republic
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has proposed opening government-owned grocery stores as a solution to...
The Quiet Power of Car-Free Neighborhoods
CityLab
Restricting or banning vehicles in congested city centers pays off with cleaner air and safer streets. We need to...
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