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The Black Middle Class, or the Harsh Reality of the American Dream
Sylvie Tissot & translated by Oliver Waine
- 24 January 2023
The suburbs of the United States, once the epicenter of racial segregation, are now home to more African Americans...
Essays
Before Redlining and Beyond
Alex B. Hill
- 2 November 2021
There is a larger story of spatial racism in cities before and beyond redlining. Spatial racism was not limited to...
Reviews
Institutional Readings on Zoning
Jamaal Green
- 20 November 2020
A new edited volume on zoning approaches the subject as a tool of planning, part of a network of institutions and...
Essays
Create, Don’t Destroy: Laying the Foundation for a Public Discourse on Racial Justice in Germany
Janina L. Selzer
- 15 September 2020
A night of violence left Stuttgart, a usually peaceful German city, with many unanswered questions. While...
Reviews
Understanding School Closures in Chicago: A Review of Eve Ewing’s
Ghosts in the Schoolyard
Ryan M. Good
- 17 December 2019
Eve Ewing’s Ghosts in the Schoolyard portrays recent school reform efforts in Chicago through the eyes of those...
Essays
Organizing Against
Projet Gentrification
: Housing Activism in a White-Supremacist Landscape in Montreal
Pierce Nettling
- 27 November 2018
Housing activists in Montreal and Quebec have successfully sought to secure tenant rights and social housing for...
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
Citizen Outsider: Racism, Marginalization, and Immigration in France
Jean Beaman
- 31 May 2017
As refugee crises have emerged and immigration has increased in many regions of the world, several Western...
Essays
Urban Decline Is Not Natural
Jason Hackworth
- 11 April 2017
Is urban decline inevitable for cities affected by deindustrialization? While many scholars espouse the idea that...
Reviews
Closed Quarters
William Helmreich
- 13 December 2016
As we contemplate an era marked by official hostility to fair-housing laws, we would do well to heed the...
Essays
When Cities Fail, Babies Die
Monica J. Casper
- 2 February 2016
Detroit, Michigan is often identified as the worst city in the United States, with excessive poverty, racism, and...
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...
Reviews
Ethnic discrimination in social housing
François Bonnet & translated by Oliver Waine
- 12 March 2014
Valérie Sala Pala has investigated the extent to which ethnic criteria come into play in the allocation of social...
Reviews
The March for Equality and Against Racism: the “Migrants’ May 1968”?
Muriel Cohen & translated by Oliver Waine
- 4 December 2013
Abdellali Hajjat looks back at the event that went down in history as the “Marche des Beurs” (“Arabs’ March”), and its...
Essays
Racism: a blind spot in French urban sociology?
Élise Palomares & translated by Oliver Waine
- 2 October 2013
Why has the analysis of interethnic relations been so long ignored by French urban sociology? For Élise Palomares,...
Debates
Homosexual City, Homophobic Banlieue?
Éric Fassin & translated by Christina Mitrakos
- 9 March 2011
Is homophobia prevalent in social housing projects? Is sexual orientation the new divide between civilizations? Éric...
Series
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
Climate Change and Social Change
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...
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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