public policy

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Integration or Chainsaw: Some Reflections on the Policies of Cruelty in Milei’s Argentina Based on the ReNaBaP Case | Integración o motosierra: Reflexiones sobre las políticas de crueldad en la Argentina de Milei a partir del caso ReNaBaP

Facundo A. Corti - 20 May 2025

Policy efforts in Argentina to reduce housing inequality have been met with Milei’s chainsaw. Facundo A. Corti shows...

From the Field

Covid‑19 in China: A Civil Society in the Making

Beiyi Hu - 18 May 2021

Beiyi Hu examines responses to Covid‑19 in China, focusing on civil-society efforts at the social, political, and...

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 into...

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, looks...

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 undesirable...

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...

Integration or Chainsaw: Some Reflections on the Policies of Cruelty in Milei’s Argentina Based on the ReNaBaP Case | Integración o motosierra: Reflexiones sobre las políticas de crueldad en la Argentina de Milei a partir del caso ReNaBaP

Covid‑19 in China: A Civil Society in the Making

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

Bare Mountaintops and Thirsty Cities: On California and its Snowpack

The Actually Existing Markets of Shrinking Cities

Building a Multifaceted Campaign for Public Higher Education

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

How Children Cope When Home is a Hotel

Reskilling Urban Manufacturing: Workforce Solutions from the Inside Out

Thirty Years of Urban Sociology

Public authorities and Roma populations in Turin

In the Paris metro, hell is other people

Is it possible to write a history of urban knowledge?

Free public transport: from social experiment to political alternative?

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

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