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right to the city
Essays
The Right to the City: An Emancipating Concept?
Matthias Lecoq & translated by Oliver Waine
- 3 July 2020
The radical approach formulated by Henri Lefebvre in 1968 criticized the failure to include inhabitants in the...
Essays
Consent-Based Social Dancing Spaces and the Right to the City
Rebecca Krisel
- 30 June 2020
Consent-based programs in social dancing venues in New York City are an initial step in supporting social dancing...
From the Field
Right(s) to the City in Hanoi
Divya Leducq & translated by Oliver Waine
- 11 October 2019
Over the past decade, urban change has accelerated and transformed the physical, social and symbolic landscapes of...
Reviews
Reclaiming the “Right to the City” Through Participatory Budgeting
Tyler James Olsen
- 19 February 2019
Participatory budgeting is growing in many cities around the world. Can it become a tool for urban dwellers to...
Essays
Solidarity Economics and Rights to the Contested City in Belfast
Brendan Murtagh
- 19 December 2018
Is Lefebvre’s right to the city capable of extending the abstract meaning of formal “rights” to practical...
Reviews
New York’s Soul for Sale: Raising the Rent on Lunch Counters and Counterculture
Benjamin Terrall
- 13 February 2018
Vanishing New York is Jeremiah Moss’s loving chronicle of the neighborhoods, characters, bars, and corner...
Reviews
Making Their Own History: Squatters on Manhattan’s Lower East Side
Benjamin H. Shepard
- 19 December 2017
During the 1970s, when Manhattan’s Lower East Side was full of derelict real estate, activists laid claim to...
Essays
The Happy Few and the Unhappy Many: Endangered Artists in Global Cities
Boris Grésillon & translated by John Barrett
- 15 June 2017
While participating or having participated in reshaping urban spaces, artists seem to be increasingly driven away...
Reviews
Neighborhood Change and the Right to the City
Adam Tanaka
- 29 March 2016
New York City’s Stuyvesant Town is the largest housing development in Manhattan, and also one of the most...
Debates
Understanding São Paulo’s Bicycle Wars
Derek Pardue
- 8 December 2015
In São Paulo, Brazil, bike lanes are a new phenomenon in a city historically dominated by automobiles. In the...
From the Field
Clitoral Mass: A Women-of-Color Ride Through Los Angeles
Jennifer Candipan
- 2 June 2015
Every year in the summer, a group of women, women of color, and women-identified riders cycle through the city of...
Essays
A Right to the City in the Global South?
Marianne Morange & Amandine Spire & translated by Oliver Waine
- 17 April 2015
The idea of the right to the city has been the subject of strongly renewed interest in academic milieux, activist...
Debates
The Right to Public Space
Gregory Smithsimon
- 10 March 2015
Many of the commonly defended human rights (freedom of expression, of assembly, of information, of movement, etc.)...
Debates
The Age of the Renter
Tony Roshan Samara
- 5 January 2015
Not all Americans own their home. In fact, more and more of them rent it. More and more of them also end up paying...
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
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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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