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Underground Berlin: Where Infrastructure Meets Politics
Clarence Hatton-Proulx & translated by Oliver Waine
- 2 December 2022
Water, electricity, gas: in Remaking Berlin, Timothy Moss presents a history of Berlin’s infrastructure networks...
From the Field
Unlikely Inter-Class Cooperation in Urbanizing Rural Colombia
Sebastián F. Villamizar Santamaría
- 25 February 2020
Sebastián F. Villamizar Santamaría examines a case of rural gentrification outside of Bogotá, Colombia, and shows how...
Essays
Electricity in War-Torn Aleppo: A New Form of Urban Management
Youssef Diab & Abboud Hajjar & translated by Oliver Waine
- 23 November 2018
In Syria, electricity is one of the sectors most adversely affected by the war. New means of electricity...
From the Field
When Progressive Mayors Aren’t Enough: Homes for All and Trans-Local Social Movements
H. Jacob Carlson & Marnie Brady & Gianpaolo Baiocchi
- 13 November 2018
Progressive governments are often pulled away from their campaign promises by local growth-coalition interests or...
From the Field
Rio de Janeiro: An (Inequitably) Connected City?
Francesca Pilo’ & translated by Oliver Waine
- 21 September 2018
The tangled webs of electrical wires, a symbol of the favelas, are also the sign of an electricity service that...
Essays
Local Leadership and Global Goals: How City Sustainability Networks are Changing Progressive Policymaking
Emma French & Supraja Sudharsan & Jennifer Clark
- 18 September 2018
While national governments often struggle to address global climate change, cities are in a better position to...
From the Field
Shrinking Networks, Growing Solidarities? How to Design a New Social and Territorial Contract
Daniel Florentin
- 27 September 2017
Utilities operators in a number of European cities, faced with significant reductions in consumption levels across...
Reviews
Megacities and how to govern them: rethinking urban development in terms of infrastructure networks
Éric Verdeil & translated by Oliver Waine
- 25 September 2015
Are colossal megalopolises like Shanghai or Mumbai uncontrollable? This collective work shows that nothing could be...
Debates
Water, sanitation, energy, waste: the dawn of the network-free city?
Sylvain Petitet & translated by Oliver Waine
- 18 April 2012
Negative externalities, changes in society and technological innovation all call into question the industrial model...
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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
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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...
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...
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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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