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Landlord Tech in Covid‑19 Times
Erin McElroy & Wonyoung So
- 30 March 2021
Covid‑19 has expanded trends in surveillance technology deployed by landlords and property managers—resulting in...
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Centering Equity in the Smart-Cities Project Dialogue
Margaret Cowell
- 13 October 2020
In Uneven Innovation, Jennifer Clark argues that the technological innovations behind “smart cities” can cultivate...
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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
Shrinking Cities
The Resurgence of Towers in European Cities
Children in the City
The Renewed Relevance of Urban-Planning Models?
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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...
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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....
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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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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,...
Mobilities: The French Government Has to Back Up Its...
Mobile Lives Forum
In the field of transportation, France’s “ecological transition” is inadequate when it comes to meeting the challenges...
Twelve Discourses of Climate Delay in the Transportation...
Mobile Lives Forum
Perhaps one of the few good-news items of the 2020s is that climate denial is on its way out. In most of Europe, it...
Being a Bicycle Delivery Rider: Passion or Exploitation?
Mobile Lives Forum
In recent years, takeaway delivery has exploded, in a context where consumer practices are changing, last-mile...
Digital Nomads in the Era of the Covid‑19 Pandemic
Mobile Lives Forum
No longer deciding where you live based on where you work – that is the choice made by digital nomads, the traveling...
Personal Carbon Allowances for Travel: Is It Possible, Fair, and...
Mobile Lives Forum
Transportation is responsible for 30% of greenhouse-gas emissions in France, and this figure is constantly...
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