public policy

From the Field

The Financialization of Rent-Regulated Housing in New York City after Rent Reform

Benjamin F. Teresa - 4 December 2020
In New York City, rent-controlled housing stock has been progressively deregulated over the last three decades, to...
From the Field

Bare Mountaintops and Thirsty Cities: On California and its Snowpack

Sayd Randle - 29 January 2019
Figuring how to represent the oncoming effects of climate change is a common challenge faced by whistleblowers and...
From the Field

The Actually Existing Markets of Shrinking Cities

Joshua Akers - 18 April 2017
In a bid to halt urban decline, Michigan’s state government sought to create incentives for the creation of urban...
From the Field

Building a Multifaceted Campaign for Public Higher Education

Stephen Brier & Michael Fabricant - 4 October 2016
In their new book, Austerity Blues: Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education, Michael Fabricant and Stephen...
Essays

Urban renewal and the “defensible space” model: the growing impact of security issues on the way our cities develop

Camille Gosselin & translated by Oliver Waine - 12 February 2016
In transforming the urban planning and architecture of social-housing estates, urban-renewal policies are not just...
From the Field

How Children Cope When Home is a Hotel

Erwan Le Méner & translated by Christina Mitrakos - 5 February 2016
Emergency housing in social hotels is affecting a growing number of families in the Paris region. How does this...
Debates

Reskilling Urban Manufacturing: Workforce Solutions from the Inside Out

Nichola Lowe - 15 December 2015
In the United States, a four-year college education has gradually come to be assumed as a prerequisite for entry...
Essays

Thirty Years of Urban Sociology

Christian Topalov & translated by Oliver Waine - 30 October 2015
What is urban sociology in France? Christian Topalov, one of the key players in the history of this discipline,...
From the Field

Public authorities and Roma populations in Turin

Elisabetta Rosa & translated by Oliver Waine - 5 March 2015
For the last three decades or so, European cities have had to deal with the issue of land occupation by migrant...
From the Field

In the Paris metro, hell is other people

Luke Haywood & Martin Koning & translated by Oliver Waine - 15 January 2015
In the medical field, it is not unusual for remedies prescribed to combat a particular condition to have...
Essays

Is it possible to write a history of urban knowledge?

Stéphane Van Damme & translated by Oliver Waine - 11 September 2013
Historian Stéphane Van Damme puts the origins and foundations of urban studies into perspective, highlighting the...
Reviews

Free public transport: from social experiment to political alternative?

Maxime Huré & translated by Oliver Waine - 20 March 2013
In a work combining storytelling and reflection, a local councillor and a philosopher analyse the policy of free...
Interviews

Solving the housing crisis: opening up private housing to the social sector

Lise Bourdeau-Lepage & Jean-Pierre Lévy & Nadine Roudil & translated by Oliver Waine - 13 February 2013
Jean-Pierre Lévy has devoted much of his work to the issue of poor housing conditions. Here, for Metropolitics, he...

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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
The Resurgence of Towers in European Cities
Children in the City
The Renewed Relevance of Urban-Planning Models?

Featured

From the Field

Arts Districts Without Artists

Meghan Ashlin Rich - 23 March 2015
Numerous studies have examined gentrification’s harmful effects for low-income residents, but few examine the...
Debates

Interrupting Inequality: Crisis and Opportunity in Low-Income Housing Policy

Susan Saegert - 26 January 2015
Inequality in the United States is deeply rooted in issues of property ownership, wealth, race and class....
Debates

Kanal İstanbul: a “crazy project” serving political ambitions

Yoann Morvan & translated by Oliver Waine - 7 December 2011
The current proliferation of mega-projects in the Istanbul metropolitan area is both undeniable and impressive. The...

Other resources online

Are Homeless People “Vagrants”?

Mobile Lives Forum
The image of the “homeless person” is associated with the older figure of the wandering vagrant. In reality,...

Mobilities: The French Government Has to Back Up Its...

Mobile Lives Forum
In the field of transportation, France’s “ecological transition” is inadequate when it comes to meeting the challenges...

Twelve Discourses of Climate Delay in the Transportation...

Mobile Lives Forum
Perhaps one of the few good-news items of the 2020s is that climate denial is on its way out. In most of Europe, it...

Being a Bicycle Delivery Rider: Passion or Exploitation?

Mobile Lives Forum
In recent years, takeaway delivery has exploded, in a context where consumer practices are changing, last-mile...

Digital Nomads in the Era of the Covid‑19 Pandemic

Mobile Lives Forum
No longer deciding where you live based on where you work – that is the choice made by digital nomads, the traveling...

Personal Carbon Allowances for Travel: Is It Possible, Fair, and...

Mobile Lives Forum
Transportation is responsible for 30% of greenhouse-gas emissions in France, and this figure is constantly...
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