urban planning

Reviews

Henri Lefebvre for architects

Grégory Busquet & translated by Oliver @Waine - 11 December 2013
Although Henri Lefebvre is well known for introducing the concept of “the right to the city”, his work is little used...
Essays

The future of planning?

Simone Abram - 13 November 2013
Rather than looking at the designs that planning promises, anthropologist Simone Abram prefers to consider planning...
From the Field

The metropolisation of “Roma Capitale”: the view from the Tiber delta

Aurélien Delpirou & Dominique Rivière & translated by Oliver @Waine - 6 November 2013
Far from the stereotype of the “sleeping beauty”, the Italian capital is the scene of an important and unique...
Reviews

Beirut: the city beneath the surface

Céline Barrère & translated by Oliver @Waine - 23 October 2013
The geographer Éric Verdeil distances himself from the dominant analyses that constantly depict Beirut as a “city at...
Debates

The poetry of the urban landscape

Émeline Bailly & translated by Oliver @Waine - 9 October 2013
The ideal of “nature in the city” is a key characteristic of many urban projects. Émeline Bailly shows that the...
Reviews

La Défense: the Planning and Politics of a Global Business District

Matthew Wendeln - 26 June 2013
La Défense, Europe’s largest business district, is the outcome of a singular mix of state planning, architectural...
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...
From the Field

Renovation and consultation: Parisian approaches to redeveloping public spaces

Bruno Gouyette & translated by Oliver @Waine - 6 February 2013
When renovating its public spaces, how does the city of Paris implement consultation processes required by French...
From the Field

Ambivalences of Gender Planning

Sandra Huning - 23 January 2013
How can a gender approach be integrated into urban planning? Sandra Huning here considers this question and...
Reviews

Marne-la-Vallée: from new town to true town?

Laurent Cailly & translated by Oliver @Waine - 31 October 2012
The redefinition of relations between a city’s centre and its outskirts is often described as the rise of a...
Essays

Settlement policy in Israel. Transforming Jerusalem’s contested metropolitan landscape

Marco Allegra - 12 September 2012
In Jerusalem, competition for land is central to the ongoing conflict. Marco Allegra shows how ideology can be less...
Reviews

The new spaces of consumption

Andrea Mubi Brighenti - 30 May 2012
Recent retail spaces are giving a new shape to our everyday environment. Kärrholm proposes new concepts to better...
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...
Debates

Integrating the train into the city: some thoughts from Spain

Luis Santos y Ganges & translated by Eric @Rosencrantz - 21 September 2011
Are inner-city railways condemned to form boundaries or barriers within the city? Based on a critique of the...
Debates

Building cities without young urban planners?

Jean-Philippe Gallardo & translated by Claudio @Cambon - 2 February 2011
The National Collective of Young Urban Planners (CNJU) is sounding the alarm bell about the discrimination that...

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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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