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Debates
Defunding Social Services
Brenden Beck
- 15 July 2025
Cities around the United States are bracing for federal funding cuts to social services. Yet, as Brenden Beck...
Debates
Discrimination and Everyday Politicization in Working-Class Neighborhoods in France
Marion Carrel & translated by Oliver Waine
- 8 October 2024
Drawing on a collective study, Marion Carrel highlights how experiences of discrimination structure people’s...
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...
Debates
When Does Police Violence Cause Urban Unrest?
Cathy Lisa Schneider
- 14 November 2017
In the summer of 2014, police killed Michael Brown in Ferguson and Eric Garner in New York. Both men were black and...
From the Field
Childhood Spent Waiting at the Gate
Adeline Perrot & translated by Oliver Waine
- 1 April 2016
The recent opening of a holding area for “unaccompanied foreign minors” at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport reflects a...
Debates
Impossible Compliance: Policing as Violent Struggle over Bodies and Urban Space
Michelle Billies
- 1 March 2016
The absence of charges brought in the case of a police murder of a Black lesbian in front of the homeless shelter...
From the Field
A Geography of Revolt in Alexandria, Egypt’s Second Capital
Youssef El Chazli
- 23 February 2016
How does the layout of a city affect how protest unfolds? How does urban space constrain and enable the choices...
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...
Debates
Hardening Racial Lines in Public Space
Naomi Adiv
- 7 July 2015
On Friday, June 5, Black teenagers in McKinney, Texas, were violently subdued by a police officer following a...
Debates
Identity checks and the law
Nathalie Ferré & translated by Oliver Waine
- 24 April 2013
In France, the issue of identity checks is at the heart of the thorny debate on how to ensure better relations...
Reviews
Algerians and the police: colonial continuities and the weight of war
Françoise de Barros & translated by Oliver Waine
- 13 March 2013
How can the treatment suffered by Algerians at the hands of the Paris police in the mid‑20th century be explained?...
Essays
The police and the “Algerian medinas” in France. Argenteuil, 1957–1962
Emmanuel Blanchard & translated by Oliver Waine
- 7 March 2012
Fifty years after the end of the Algerian War of Independence, it should not be forgotten that this conflict was also...
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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