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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”...
From the Field
The Leaderless Urban Social Movement as Problem and Solution
Caio Teixeira
- 25 September 2018
Today, with urban uprisings driven by leaderless social movements, the future of the would-be progressive agenda...
Essays
The Limits of Progressive Policymaking in US Cities
Richard Schragger
- 11 September 2018
While many US cities appear to enjoy extensive powers—as evidenced by the progressive policies enacted by certain...
From the Field
Repositioning the state’s role through water politics in Mexico City’s informal settlements
Guillem Ramírez Chico
- 27 March 2018
Throughout the Mexico City metropolitan area, the struggle for water access often defines the relationship (or lack...
From the Field
Municipal socialism in France from the interwar period to the 1970s
Aude Chamouard & translated by Oliver @Waine
- 30 April 2014
“Municipal socialism” has marked the history of many cities in France (Lille, Toulouse and Bordeaux, to name but...
Debates
The Localism Act in London: institutionalising urban divisions
Justinien Tribillon
- 16 April 2014
By decentralising planning powers to local communities, the British Conservative government claims that they are...
Debates
Will local-government reform in London involve or abandon its citizens?
Martine Drozdz & translated by Oliver @Waine
- 3 July 2013
While the current financial crisis has compromised local authorities’ ability to deliver municipal services, the...
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
Housing: for an act III of the decentralization process
Patrice Lanco & translated by Michael @Stokes
- 18 February 2011
Although housing has not been concerned before now by decentralization, the contrasted realities of local markets...
From the Field
The mayor, the developer and low-cost home ownership
Guilhem Dupuy & translated by Michael @Stokes
- 17 January 2011
At a time when controlling housing prices has become a national priority, a recent study carried out by Guilhem...
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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