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Aéroports de Paris: A Strategic Lever for the French State?
Nathalie Roseau & translated by Oliver Waine
- 26 January 2021
Following growing controversy surrounding the French government’s plans to privatize the Aéroports de Paris (ADP)...
Interviews
In Search of Grand Paris: Pierre Mansat on the Eve of the June 2020 Municipal Elections
Magda Maaoui & Pierre Mansat
- 26 June 2020
Magda Maaoui interviews Pierre Mansat, former deputy mayor of Paris and a founding father of “le Grand Paris” (the...
Debates
Covid-19, War, and Working-Class Neighborhoods
Pierre Gilbert & translated by Oliver Waine
- 5 June 2020
The residents of France’s working-class neighborhoods, accused of exacerbating the coronavirus pandemic through...
From the Field
A Construction Boom in an Urban Floodplain: Long Island City, Queens, NYC
Christopher Ryan
- 11 February 2020
New York City has encouraged development in Long Island City, Queens, even as the neighborhood has not recovered...
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...
Debates
Private Infrastructure and Urban Government: How Vélib’ Veered Off Course in Paris
Maxime Huré & translated by Oliver Waine
- 17 May 2019
When the city of Paris entrusted its decade-old bike-share service, Vélib’, to a new provider in January 2018,...
From the Field
The Leaderless Urban Social Movement as Problem and Solution
Caio Teixeira
- 25 September 2018
Today, with urban uprisings driven by leaderless social movements, the future of the would-be progressive agenda...
From the Field
Dunkirk as a New “Laboratory” for Free Transit
Henri Briche & Maxime Huré & translated by Oliver Waine
- 29 June 2018
From September 2018, the public transport network in Dunkirk, France, will be free of charge for all users. Henri...
Debates
More Affordable Transit Fares
Alexis Perrotta
- 26 April 2016
Low-income urban residents often struggle to afford transit fares. Seattle recently established half-fares for poor...
Debates
Streetcars Named Desire
Luc Gwiazdzinski & translated by Oliver Waine
- 15 March 2016
Luc Gwiazdzinski provides an original and critical analysis of the changes affecting today’s cities and contemporary...
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...
Debates
A flat-rate travel card for the Paris region: revolution or illusion?
Marie-Hélène Massot & translated by Oliver Waine
- 6 November 2015
Fare “dezoning” in the Paris region – a key reform to mark the end of Jean-Paul Huchon’s term as leader of...
From the Field
Social Norms and Resistance on the City Bus
Sofya Aptekar
- 5 May 2015
While subways are hailed as the quintessential New York experience, with their own museum, T-shirts, and lore, the...
Essays
Transport as both a function and a facilitator of metropolitan development?
Aurélien Delpirou & translated by Oliver Waine
- 12 February 2015
In Paris, Lyon and Marseille, the development of public transport is a central element of the metropolitan projects...
From the Field
In the Paris metro, hell is other people
Luke Haywood & Martin Koning & translated by Oliver Waine
- 15 January 2015
In the medical field, it is not unusual for remedies prescribed to combat a particular condition to have...
Essays
Could harmonised working times spell an end to the rush hour?
Emmanuel Munch & translated by Oliver Waine
- 12 February 2014
Efforts to coordinate working hours across urban territories have increased in recent years. By exploring the...
Debates
The Negotiated Urbanism of Grand Paris Express
Lara Belkind
- 12 June 2013
In the fragmented context of Paris’s metropolitan and regional politics, the Grand Pari(s) design consultation and...
Essays
Teenage mobility: a socialised and socialising practice
Julian Devaux & Nicolas Oppenchaim & translated by Oliver Waine
- 27 March 2013
The comings and goings of teenagers, while a frequent source of tension in the parent–child relationship, are a...
Reviews
Free public transport: from social experiment to political alternative?
Maxime Huré & translated by Oliver Waine
- 20 March 2013
In a work combining storytelling and reflection, a local councillor and a philosopher analyse the policy of free...
Debates
From Vélib’ to Autolib’: private corporations’ involvement in urban mobility policy
Maxime Huré & translated by Oliver Waine
- 25 April 2012
In December 2011 – four years after the launch of Vélib’ – Paris inaugurated Autolib’, the largest system of...
Essays
The police and the “Algerian medinas” in France. Argenteuil, 1957–1962
Emmanuel Blanchard & translated by Oliver Waine
- 7 March 2012
Fifty years after the end of the Algerian War of Independence, it should not be forgotten that this conflict was...
From the Field
Transport and urban planning in Rome: an unholy marriage?
Aurélien Delpirou & translated by Oliver Waine
- 4 January 2012
Aurélien Delpirou brings a new perspective to the debate initiated by Luis Santos y Ganges. He highlights the fact...
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...
Series
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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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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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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