redevelopment

From the Field

The Brazilian Experience of Financialization Through Urban Redevelopment: The Case of “Urban Operations”

Laisa Eleonora Marostica Stroher - 1 December 2020
Laisa Stroher examines the history of large-scale urban regeneration projects in Brazil and shows how a policy...
Essays

Regeneration and the Legacy of Thatcherism

Juliet Carpenter - 15 October 2014
What was Margaret Thatcher’s legacy in terms of the way inner-city areas are regenerated in the UK? Juliet Carpenter...
Debates

The new banks of the Seine: all for the best, or just another Woody Allen set?

Mathieu Flonneau & translated by Oliver Waine - 21 May 2014
June 2013 saw the completion of a project to transform the riverside expressway on the Left Bank of the Seine in...
From the Field

Renovation and consultation: Parisian approaches to redeveloping public spaces

Bruno Gouyette & translated by Oliver Waine - 6 February 2013
When renovating its public spaces, how does the city of Paris implement consultation processes required by French...

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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...

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When New Lifestyles Disrupt Daily Mobility in England

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Mobile Lives Forum
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Call for Papers | Southern Diaries: Mobilities Research in the...

Mobile Lives Forum
“Southern Diaries” is a space on the Mobile Lives Forum website that promotes mobilities research in the Global...

“Manuel de sociologie des mobilités géographiques”, by Leslie...

Mobile Lives Forum
While mobility in all its forms has been the subject of an increasing amount of research over the past 20 years,...

History of the Concept of Mobility

Mobile Lives Forum
Defining mobility is especially important because the term is highly polysemous. When geographers use the term...

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,...
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Journal supported by the Institut des Sciences Humaines et Sociales (Institute of Human and Social Sciences) of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)

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