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Manifested Stories
Rebecca Blythe Pryor
- 5 January 2021
Rebecca Pryor traces the history of the revitalization of the Bronx River, illustrating an alternative narrative to...
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...
From the Field
When Memory is Confined: Politics of Commemoration on Avenida 26, Bogotá
Violante Torre
- 7 April 2020
After more than five decades of conflict, the Colombian capital, Bogotá, is undergoing processes not just of...
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...
Debates
Silent Suppression: How Local Politicians Stifle Collective Action in Working-Class Neighborhoods
Julien Talpin & translated by Oliver @Waine
- 19 October 2018
Taking as its starting point a study of a neighborhood roundtable in the northern French city of Roubaix, this...
From the Field
Overcoming Decline Through Graffiti? The Case of the Open Space Gallery in Halle (Saale)
Nina Gribat
- 4 April 2017
Open Space Gallery, a collective in Halle (Saale), Germany, turned the marginalized neighborhood of Freiimfelde...
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
“Gentrification or ghetto”: making sense of an intellectual impasse
Anne Clerval & Mathieu Van Criekingen & translated by Oliver @Waine
- 29 January 2015
The debate on the causes, effects and extent of the “gentrification” of working-class neighbourhoods in the central...
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...
Essays
Regeneration and the Legacy of Thatcherism
Juliet Carpenter
- 15 October 2014
What was Margaret Thatcher’s legacy in terms of the way inner-city areas are regenerated in the UK? Juliet Carpenter...
Interviews
Professionalisation, gentrification and welfare reform: 20 years of socio-spatial change in London
Manuel Appert & Anaïs Collet & Chris Hamnett
- 19 June 2013
The 2008 financial crisis called time on a long period of economic transformation in European cities that has seen...
From the Field
The reconstruction of Beirut: sowing the seeds for future conflicts?
Bruno Marot & Serge Yazigi & translated by Oliver @Waine
- 14 November 2012
Periods of post-war reconstruction are often the backdrop for new socio-economic and political dynamics. In Beirut,...
Series
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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