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From the Field
A Crisis of Habitation in LA’s Last Remaining Wetland
Deike Peters & Sam Lutzker
- 18 March 2025
As housing crises become increasingly entangled with environmental crises, the question of just outcomes requires...
Reviews
An American in Marseille
Olivier Gaudin & translated by Oliver Waine
- 17 March 2023
In his latest work, Marseille, Port to Port, the New York-based ethnographer William Kornblum paints a rich and...
Series
Climate Change and Social Change
Gregory Smithsimon
- 3 April 2018
Cities are home to more than half the world’s population and the source of most global CO2 emissions—and yet often...
From the Field
Where Did the Bees Go? New York City Beekeeping Amid Ecological Crises
Mary Kosut & Lisa Jean Moore
- 5 April 2016
The decline and extinction of bees and other pollinators threatens the global food supply. Residents in cities like...
Essays
Looking Backward into the Future of New York
Ted Steinberg
- 12 January 2015
Can the lesson of Hurricane Sandy dampen the enthusiasm of New York City’s growth machine? Ted Steinberg, author of...
From the Field
Flowers under the flagstones
Cédric Ansart & Emmanuel Boutefeu & translated by Oliver Waine
- 8 October 2014
Cédric Ansart and Emmanuel Boutefeu explore new ways of enhancing city streets through the small-scale greening of...
Debates
When agriculture meets the city…
André Torre & Lise Bourdeau-Lepage & translated by Oliver Waine
- 10 April 2013
In this article, André Torre and Lise Bourdeau-Lepage consider the role of nature in the city through the prism of...
Debates
The desirable city or the sustainable city: what is the role of green spaces?
Jean-François Guet & translated by Birdwell Institute
- 2 November 2011
While green spaces are in great demand among city-dwellers, their presence alone is not enough to make the city...
Series
Horizons in the Housing Struggle
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
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 New...
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 patrol...
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...
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“Our hallway’s big enough to play football in!” The council housing...
The Guardian
Boasting two-sink kitchens, Tower Court in north London is tailored for the Haredi Jewish community – but its...
Saudi Arabia: How is Mobility Being Transformed in the Oil Kingdom?
Mobile Lives Forum
04 April 2025, by Aniss Mouad Mezoued The launch of the Riyadh metro in late November 2024 once again highlighted...
Transport for Suburbia: Beyond the Automobile Age (Paul Mees)
Mobile Lives Forum
27 March 2025, by Javier Caletrío Can suburbia avoid car dependence? Can low-density areas enjoy first-rate public...
Geopolitics and Electric Vehicles: The Rise of Climate Protectionism
Mobile Lives Forum
17 February 2025, by Xabier Gangoiti and Graham Parkhurst The electric vehicle (EV) revolution is not just a...
One Way to Fight Rising Food Prices: Public Grocery Stores
The New Republic
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has proposed opening government-owned grocery stores as a solution to...
The Quiet Power of Car-Free Neighborhoods
CityLab
Restricting or banning vehicles in congested city centers pays off with cleaner air and safer streets. We need to...
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