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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...
Essays

What we can learn from babies’ sociability

Carole Gayet-Viaud & translated by Oliver Waine - 9 October 2015
The sociability of very young children reveals a neglected dimension of relations and interactions in public, and...
From the Field

The Abattoir’s Call: At the Margins of New York City’s Foodie Movement

Richard E. Ocejo - 17 November 2014
Food-conscious urban consumers often ask their butcher where their meat comes from. But how many wonder about the...
Reviews

The role of proximities in improving territorial governance

Lise Bourdeau-Lepage & translated by Oliver Waine - 10 July 2013
What can be done to improve territorial governance? André Torre and Jean-Eudes Beuret emphasise the role of...
From the Field

Regulating public spaces: the ambiguous role played by new professions

Jacques de Maillard & translated by Oliver Waine - 17 April 2013
Despite a hiatus in the debate on community policing in France, the “new professions” involved in regulating public...
Debates

Organic school meals: what remains of the pioneer spirit?

Leïla Kebir & translated by Oliver Waine - 9 May 2012
The concept of “organic canteens” has proved remarkably successful, buoyed by the Grenelle de l’Environnement (the...
Debates

Local food: a concrete Utopia

Christian Deverre & Jean-Baptiste Traversac & translated by Oliver Waine - 15 February 2012
Roland Vidal recently invited us to look beyond short food-supply chains and rethink local links between cities and...

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

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...
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...
Reviews

The Dangers of Security

Médéric Martin-Mazé & translated by Oliver Waine - 22 May 2015
In Against Security, Harvey Molotch highlights – through various examples, including the New York subway, airports,...

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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