urban renewal

Reviews

New York City’s Descent into Neoliberal Policy: A Review of Benjamin Holtzman’s The Long Crisis

John Krinsky - 19 July 2022
Benjamin Holtzman’s The Long Crisis tells the story of New York’s prolonged descent into neoliberal policy. For those...
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...
Essays

Urban Renewal in the USA: A Neoliberal Policy?

Thomas Kirszbaum & translated by Oliver Waine - 3 May 2019
By allowing demolitions and evictions in well-located working-class neighborhoods, urban renewal is sometimes...
Essays

The Treatment of “North Africans” in 1960s Urban Renewal in France

Janoé Vulbeau & translated by Oliver Waine - 1 February 2019
While France’s 1960s urban renewal has been studied in terms of its effects on the working classes, its racial...
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...
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...
Essays

Urban Shrinkage in France: An Invisible Issue?

Rémi Dormois & Sylvie Fol & translated by Oliver Waine - 13 September 2017
Although the phenomenon of urban shrinkage affects a significant number of French towns and cities, it is an issue...
Essays

The Wrecker’s Pick. The Rationales and Hidden Agendas of Urban Renewal in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Alain Faure & translated by Christina Mitrakos - 7 June 2016
Alain Faure, a scholar of the social history of cities, puts urban renewal into perspective. He questions the...
From the Field

The Flea Market of Marseille

Michèle Jolé & William Kornblum - 17 May 2016
Marseille’s flea market (“marché aux puces”) lies at the heart of a vast urban renewal project that could end up wiping...
From the Field

The complex representations of working-class residential towers

Rachid Kaddour & translated by Oliver Waine - 26 February 2016
Rachid Kaddour’s analysis of the trajectory of perceptions of the Plein‑Ciel tower in Saint‑Étienne in south-eastern...
Essays

Urban renewal and the “defensible space” model: the growing impact of security issues on the way our cities develop

Camille Gosselin & translated by Oliver Waine - 12 February 2016
In transforming the urban planning and architecture of social-housing estates, urban-renewal policies are not just...
Reviews

“Grands Ensembles”: Retracing a History of Rejection

Stéphane Füzesséry & translated by Oliver Waine - 15 January 2016
From its very beginnings, the urban model of the “grand ensemble” – the large-scale high-rise housing estate – has...
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...
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...
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,...
Reviews

Barcelona: local mobilisation or global desperation?

Charlotte Vorms & translated by Oliver Waine - 8 February 2012
What is the history behind today’s protest movements involving the occupation of urban public spaces? In the film...
From the Field

The School of Urban Renewal: A New Ideological Mishmash?

Claire Carriou & Yankel Fijalkow - 18 May 2011
The Borloo Act of 2003 is said to have marked a major turning-point in French policy concerning so-called “critical”...
Essays

“Ghetto,” “Banishment,” “Neighborhood Effects.” A Critique of the “Ghetto” Image of French Housing Projects

Pierre Gilbert & translated by Eric Rosencrantz - 23 March 2011
Are residents of French housing projects really “banished” to their neighborhoods and kept in “confinement” there?...

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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...
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...
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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Strasbourg, An Example of a Cycling City

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The Trinity of Walking, Cycling and Public Transportation Must Be...

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