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shrinking cities
From the Field
Demystifying Urban Agriculture in Detroit
Flaminia Paddeu
- 14 December 2017
Urban agriculture projects in North American shrinking cities have been the subject of much media attention in...
From the Field
Mitigating urban decline through the compact city? Reflections on 15 years of urban recentralization policies in Japan
Sophie Buhnik
- 7 December 2017
To cope with a rapidly spreading and now pervasive phenomenon of urban decline, Japanese authorities have actively...
From the Field
Who Stays and Who Leaves? Residential Flows in French Shrinking Cities
Mathilde Rudolph
- 1 November 2017
In focusing on residential flows, Mathilde Rudolph seeks to shed light on the processes of urban decline at play in...
From the Field
Shrinking to Survive? Demolition and Energy Transition in Small-Town France
Yoan Miot & Max Rousseau & translated by Oliver Waine
- 18 October 2017
Faced with a process of advanced decline, public and private actors in the town of Vitry-le-François, in eastern...
From the Field
Shrinking Cities in France: The Cumulative Effects of Decline
Nicolas Cauchi-Duval & Frédérique Cornuau & Mathilde Rudolph & translated by Oliver Waine
- 4 October 2017
In France, different shrinking cities have followed different trajectories. They nevertheless all have certain...
From the Field
Shrinking Networks, Growing Solidarities? How to Design a New Social and Territorial Contract
Daniel Florentin
- 27 September 2017
Utilities operators in a number of European cities, faced with significant reductions in consumption levels across...
From the Field
From “Black City” to “Slum City”: The Importance of Image in Saint-Étienne
Vincent Béal & Christelle Morel Journel & Valérie Sala Pala & translated by Oliver Waine
- 20 September 2017
In December 2014, an article in the French daily newspaper Le Monde painted a highly negative portrait of the city...
Essays
Urban Shrinkage in France: An Invisible Issue?
Rémi Dormois & Sylvie Fol & translated by Oliver Waine
- 13 September 2017
Although the phenomenon of urban shrinkage affects a significant number of French towns and cities, it is an issue...
Essays
American Shrinking Cities May Not Need to Grow
Deborah E. Popper & Frank J. Popper
- 25 April 2017
Successful cities are expected to continually grow, and when this doesn’t happen, city managers typically try to...
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...
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...
From the Field
Overcoming Decline Through Graffiti? The Case of the Open Space Gallery in Halle (Saale)
Nina Gribat
- 4 April 2017
Open Space Gallery, a collective in Halle (Saale), Germany, turned the marginalized neighborhood of Freiimfelde...
From the Field
DIY Urbanism in Shrinking Cities: Or, What Neighbors Are Left With When Markets Withdraw and Governments Contract
Kimberley Kinder
- 27 March 2017
DIY culture is one of the zeitgeists of our time. Hipster home-brewing, swing-dance flash mobs, and pop-up maker...
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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