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Debates
The Second Coming of the Accessory Dwelling Unit
Joseph Weil Huennekens
- 26 October 2021
Joseph Weil Huennekens discusses the history of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) in the context of housing in the...
Series
Cities in the Age of Financialization
Martine Drozdz & Antoine Guironnet & Ludovic Halbert & translated by James Christopher Mizes & Oliver Waine
- 18 June 2021
Over the past four decades, the financialization of capitalism has transformed economies, societies, and urban...
From the Field
The Brazilian Experience of Financialization Through Urban Redevelopment: The Case of “Urban Operations”
Laisa Eleonora Marostica Stroher
- 1 December 2020
Laisa Stroher examines the history of large-scale urban regeneration projects in Brazil and shows how a policy...
Reviews
Institutional Readings on Zoning
Jamaal Green
- 20 November 2020
A new edited volume on zoning approaches the subject as a tool of planning, part of a network of institutions and...
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...
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...
Debates
Reclaim Value Capture for Equitable Urban Development
Laura Wolf-Powers
- 28 May 2019
Land-value capture (LVC) mechanisms have become a popular tool for fiscally constrained municipal policymakers....
Reviews
Planning Metropolitan Australia
Margot Abord de Chatillon
- 9 April 2019
In Planning Metropolitan Australia, Stephen Hamnett and Robert Freestone shed welcome light on the way Australia’s...
Essays
As NYC (Again) Considers Comprehensive Planning, History Offers Insight
K. C. Alvey
- 12 February 2019
Comprehensive planning can be a progressive governance tool, helping leaders keep broad principles like equity and...
Reviews
Recyclable City or Disposable City? A Century of Urban Waste in Naples
Sabine Bognon & translated by Oliver Waine
- 9 November 2018
Inspired by the study of living ecosystems, research into the notion of urban metabolism seeks to break with the...
Essays
Getting Night Lighting Right
Samuel Challéat & Dany Lapostolle & translated by Oliver Waine
- 2 November 2018
Innovation in contemporary urban lighting has increasingly been driven by issues of sustainability. While...
Debates
Deafening Discord: Reclaiming Residents’ Anger in Working-Class Neighborhoods
Pierre Chabard & translated by Oliver Waine
- 26 October 2018
We recently published an article showing how, in Roubaix in northern France, elected officials took steps to...
From the Field
The Territorial and Environmental Impacts of Climate Change in Germany
Dennis Becker & Stefan Greiving & Viola Schulze Dieckhoff & Thorsten Wiechmann
- 25 April 2018
In Germany, the territorial and environmental impacts of climate change intersect in key ways with the nation’s...
From the Field
Overcoming Climate Impacts Through Adaptive Capacity Building: Two Extreme Cases from Germany
Viola Schulze Dieckhoff & Thorsten Wiechmann
- 25 April 2018
Climate change and demographic change interact. Impacts of climate change do not solely result from climate...
From the Field
Climate and Demographic Change: The Need for an Integrative Approach to Spatial Planning in Germany
Dennis Becker & Stefan Greiving
- 25 April 2018
Climate change and demographic change are two megatrends that are often discussed without regard for their complex...
From the Field
Urban Desires and Lust for Land
Éric Denis & translated by Oliver Waine
- 20 April 2018
In the Global South, vast swathes of periurban and agricultural land are being sold off and converted into...
Debates
The Cost of Good Intentions: Planning Gridlock in San Francisco
David Prowler
- 30 January 2018
The culture of protest that marked development and planning in San Francisco during the 1970s and 1980s was a...
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...
Essays
The “Dozois Plan”: lessons learned from urban-renewal policies and the history of urban planning in Montreal
Frédéric Mercure-Jolette & translated by Oliver Waine
- 23 October 2015
Urban-renewal policies justify their actions by decrying neighbourhoods earmarked for demolition. Frédéric...
Reviews
Jerusalem: divisive urban planning at the heart of the Holy City
Vincent Lemire & translated by Oliver Waine
- 19 June 2015
How is the Israeli–Palestinian conflict reflected in the way the city of Jerusalem has been planned and developed?...
From the Field
Vancouverism: hybridisation and spread of an urban model
Nicolas Douay & translated by Oliver Waine
- 12 June 2015
The transformation that downtown Vancouver has undergone – which has since become a reference, known as...
From the Field
Exporting French-style “sustainable cities” to Morocco
Pierre-Arnaud Barthel & translated by Oliver Waine
- 1 May 2015
In Morocco, environmental urban projects are the order of the day. For these projects, French expertise is being...
Essays
Programming play into public space?
Sonia Curnier & translated by Oliver Waine
- 20 March 2015
With the rise of the “ludic city”, the work of Roger Caillois and Marc Breviglieri allows us to question the...
From the Field
The Massive Death of China’s Urban Villages
Stefan Al
- 17 March 2015
As expanding Chinese cities engulfed their hinterlands, chengzhoncun—villages within the city—became an affordable...
Essays
Starchitects: walking the line between individuality and conformity
Géraldine Molina & translated by Oliver Waine
- 19 February 2015
The stars of the worlds of architecture and urban planning are prime targets of research, with the aim of...
Essays
Is there a model for sustainable urban planning?
Claire Carriou & Olivier Ratouis & translated by Oliver Waine
- 27 November 2014
Claire Carriou and Olivier Ratouis reconsider the theoretical sources of sustainable urban planning from the...
From the Field
Nantes’ urban project: putting the Bilbao model to the test
Amélie Nicolas & translated by Oliver Waine
- 13 November 2014
The experiences of Bilbao and its urban transformations have been shared and integrated into the urban-planning...
From the Field
Splitting suburban homes
Anne-Claire Davy & Peggy Mertiny & Mélanie Richard & translated by Oliver Waine
- 1 October 2014
Many local stakeholders in the Paris region have expressed concern regarding the emergence of a process of...
Essays
Territorial Equality in France: A Historical Perspective
Matthew Wendeln
- 4 June 2014
Once the basis of French regional planning, the goal of national balance has made a comeback in France under the...
From the Field
The burst bubble and the privatisation of planning in Tokyo
Raphaël Languillon-Aussel & translated by Oliver Waine
- 5 February 2014
Since the early 1990s and the collapse of Japan’s asset price bubble, developments in Marunouchi – Tokyo’s main...
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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
Shrinking Cities
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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...
Essays
Sentinel Territories: A New Concept for Looking at Environmental Change
David Blanchon & Frédéric Keck & François-Michel Le Tourneau & Stéphane Tonnelat & Adriana Zuniga-Teran
- 8 May 2020
In this essay, the authors develop the concept of “sentinel territories,” or environments where humans can perceive...
From the Field
Who Cleans Paris? Garbage Collectors in Their Own Words
Coline Ferrant & Marie Mourad & translated by Oliver Waine
- 21 June 2019
Who are Paris’s garbage collectors? Coline Ferrant and Marie Mourad highlight the diverse working conditions covered...
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...
Interviews
Teaching Art and the History of Tattoos at Rikers Island: An Interview with Tamara...
Lisa Jean Moore
- 22 January 2019
An interview with Tamara Santibanez, who teaches art and the cultural and social history of tattoos to youth...
From the Field
Snowbirds’ Gift Economy in the Arizona Desert
David Frati
- 7 November 2017
Each year, 200,000 retired people spend the winter in and around the small town of Quartzsite, Arizona, in the...
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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