periurban

From the Field

Power in the Periphery: Waste Conflict and Resistance in Periurban Kerala

Ashish Prabhakar - 6 September 2022
Ashish Prabhakar analyzes one Indian village’s fight against a city waste processing plant in 2011–2012, illustrating...
From the Field

Holding Their Own: Gilets Jaunes’ Occupation of Public Space

Antoine Bernard de Raymond & Sylvain Bordiec & translated by Oliver Waine - 30 April 2021
The Gilets Jaunes (“Yellow Vests”) movement that emerged in France in the fall of 2018 was striking by dint of both...
Reviews

Political Conservatism and the Working Classes in France

David Gouard & translated by Oliver Waine - 25 January 2019
In her latest book, Le Vote FN au village (“The National Front Vote in the Village”), sociologist Violaine Girard...
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

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...
From the Field

Mitigating urban decline through the compact city? Reflections on 15 years of urban recentralization policies in Japan

Sophie Buhnik - 7 December 2017
To cope with a rapidly spreading and now pervasive phenomenon of urban decline, Japanese authorities have actively...
Debates

“Gentrification or ghetto”: making sense of an intellectual impasse

Anne Clerval & Mathieu Van Criekingen & translated by Oliver Waine - 29 January 2015
The debate on the causes, effects and extent of the “gentrification” of working-class neighbourhoods in the central...
Essays

Another Vision of the Suburbs

Jean-Christophe Bardot & Laurent Devisme & translated by Oliver Waine - 7 May 2014
Images of the urban fringes of French cities often tend either to condemn their ugliness or to revel in a strange...
Debates

The grandeur and decadence of the suburbs

Violaine Girard & Jean Rivière & translated by Oliver Waine - 18 September 2013
Periurban areas emerged in the 2000s as “new” spaces indicative of recent changes in French society – the weakening of...
Essays

Explaining the periurban right-wing vote: “social frustrations” of low-income households or the reshaping of the working classes?

Violaine Girard & translated by Oliver Waine - 13 June 2012
There is a growing interest in voting patterns in periurban areas, which tend to lean to the right or even far...
Reviews

What future for periurban communities: clubbisation or differentiated social dynamics?

Violaine Girard & translated by Oliver Waine - 16 November 2011
In La ville émiettée, Éric Charmes describes the phenomenon of “clubbisation” in towns and villages in the outer...
Essays

Beyond dreams of village life: residential clubs and clubbisation

Éric Charmes & translated by Oliver Waine - 26 October 2011
At a time of increasing “metropolisation” and ever greater pressure on mobility, how can neighbourhood attachments be...
Debates

The (mis)measurement of periurbanization

Anne Lambert & translated by Eric Rosencrantz - 11 May 2011
(Peri)urban sprawl is unanimously decried as a cause for economic, environmental and social concern. And yet...
Debates

Suburbanization as a Project

Martin Vanier & translated by Christina Mitrakos - 6 April 2011
Experts and policies fail to recognize the contradictions that urban sprawl creates and rarely go beyond...

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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...

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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