neighborhood

Essays

Before Redlining and Beyond

Alex B. Hill - 2 November 2021
There is a larger story of spatial racism in cities before and beyond redlining. Spatial racism was not limited to...
Reviews

Confronting Police Violence and an Unjust Justice System

Michele Graham - 19 May 2020
We publish Michele Graham’s review of the 2018 book The War on Neighborhoods: Policing, Prison, and Punishment in a...
From the Field

Saving Ivy Island: A Civil War in North Portland

Lauren Everett - 15 January 2019
Lauren Everett examines two different approaches by community activists confronting change in a tight-knit Portland...
From the Field

Backpedaling in Birmingham

William Grady Holt - 20 November 2018
Despite the 2017 election of progressive, black mayors in major southern US cities, citizens who supported these...
Essays

Migrants’ Occupation of Lycée Jean Quarré: The Refugee Cause and the Cause of a Neighborhood

Isabelle Coutant & translated by Oliver Waine - 16 November 2018
The flows of migrants seeking refuge in Europe since the summer of 2015 have led to temporary settlements—legal or...
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...
Essays

Parallel Lives? Elena Ferrante’s Naples and My West New Rochelle

Bella Mirabella - 26 January 2016
Elena Ferrante’s acclaimed Neapolitan novels, which trace the lives of two girls born in a working class district in...
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...
From the Field

Social Diversity in Gentrified Neighborhoods: Child’s Play?

Jean-Yves Authier & Sonia Lehman-Frisch & translated by Christina Mitrakos - 4 December 2015
How do children develop relationships? Do they meet children from socio-economic backgrounds other than their own?...
Reviews

All the Gayborhoods are White

Marcus Anthony Hunter - 19 May 2015
The urban “gayborhood,” the place where gay men and women found refuge for their sexuality from bigotry, is gradually...
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...
Reviews

The importance of the neighborhood in Chicago and elsewhere

Eliza Benites-Gambirazio - 19 March 2014
The latest work by Robert Sampson, released to positive reviews, shows the sustainable effects of internal social...
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...
From the Field

Château Rouge: a “Little Africa” in Paris?

Marie Chabrol & translated by Oliver Waine - 22 May 2013
The Château Rouge area of Paris is regarded as an “African neighbourhood”. But what is the reality behind this image?...
From the Field

Children’s autonomy and our relationship with public spaces

Clément Rivière & translated by Oliver Waine - 7 November 2012
The relationship between children and the city – a subject seldom studied in France in the past – has in recent years...

Series

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
Climate Change and Social Change

Featured

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...
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...
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

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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