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More Affordable Transit Fares
Alexis Perrotta
- 26 April 2016
Low-income urban residents often struggle to afford transit fares. Seattle recently established half-fares for poor...
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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...
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Impossible Compliance: Policing as Violent Struggle over Bodies and Urban Space
Michelle Billies
- 1 March 2016
The absence of charges brought in the case of a police murder of a Black lesbian in front of the homeless shelter...
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Reskilling Urban Manufacturing: Workforce Solutions from the Inside Out
Nichola Lowe
- 15 December 2015
In the United States, a four-year college education has gradually come to be assumed as a prerequisite for entry...
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Understanding São Paulo’s Bicycle Wars
Derek Pardue
- 8 December 2015
In São Paulo, Brazil, bike lanes are a new phenomenon in a city historically dominated by automobiles. In the...
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To Prevent Worsening Inequality, Put Affluent Neighborhoods on NYC Rezoning List
Moses Gates
- 17 November 2015
Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning is meant to boost the affordable housing supply and create more economically...
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A flat-rate travel card for the Paris region: revolution or illusion?
Marie-Hélène Massot & translated by Oliver @Waine
- 6 November 2015
Fare “dezoning” in the Paris region – a key reform to mark the end of Jean-Paul Huchon’s term as leader of...
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Artists and Industry: Friends or Foes?
Paul Parkhill
- 3 November 2015
Anti-gentrification activists have castigated artists’ lofts as the vanguard of gentrification, while cities have...
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Social housing in Africa: a model to be (re)invented?
Alexandra Biehler & Armelle Choplin & Marie Morelle & translated by Oliver @Waine
- 16 October 2015
While the question of housing for working-class populations remains a recurrent issue in sub‑Saharan African cities,...
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The Endangered Enclave
Mike Owen Benediktsson & Brian Lamberta & Sarah Van Norden
- 6 October 2015
While most gentrification studies focus on residential displacement, businesses also suffer from rising rents and a...
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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...
Debates
Hardening Racial Lines in Public Space
Naomi Adiv
- 7 July 2015
On Friday, June 5, Black teenagers in McKinney, Texas, were violently subdued by a police officer following a...
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New York’s de Blasio bargains with FIRE
Tom Waters
- 16 June 2015
Frantic deal-making over an obscure but costly New York City real-estate tax incentive (421‑a) provides a window...
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Visual Boredom: Commodification and Exclusion in Graffiti-Less Auckland
Ronald Kramer
- 26 May 2015
A common argument against neoliberalism is that it makes cities all look alike. In this piece, sociologist Ronald...
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Occupy Mall Street?
Anthony Maniscalco
- 21 April 2015
The quintessential suburb is home to the shopping mall, an indoor space of anchor departments stores, small...
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Precarity and Gentrification: A Feedback Loop
Samuel Stein
- 14 April 2015
How do rent hikes and labor precarity conspire to reinforce each other against tenants and workers? Samuel Stein...
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The Right to Public Space
Gregory Smithsimon
- 10 March 2015
Many of the commonly defended human rights (freedom of expression, of assembly, of information, of movement, etc.)...
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“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...
Debates
Interrupting Inequality: Crisis and Opportunity in Low-Income Housing Policy
Susan Saegert
- 26 January 2015
Inequality in the United States is deeply rooted in issues of property ownership, wealth, race and class....
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Is rurality a thing of the past?
Philippe Dubourg & translated by Oliver @Waine
- 8 January 2015
In the era of globalisation and metropolisation, is rurality an old-fashioned concept, a thing of the past? The...
Debates
The Age of the Renter
Tony Roshan Samara
- 5 January 2015
Not all Americans own their home. In fact, more and more of them rent it. More and more of them also end up paying...
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The Violence of Sustainable Urbanity
Erik Swyngedouw
- 10 November 2014
If Nature is an ideological construction that separates us from the environment, the contemporary search for...
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Finance as a New Terrain for Progressive Urban Politics
Desiree Fields
- 6 November 2014
Since the foreclosure crisis, inequalities have only deepened in the US, with most wealth accruing to the 1%....
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Using heritage status to combat segregation: the case of French housing estates
Marc Bertier & Hervé Marchal & Jean-Marc Stébé & translated by Oliver @Waine
- 22 October 2014
Challenging the idea that demolishing housing estates is all it takes to eradicate the social problems with which...
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What role for urban farming?
Laure Le Gall & translated by Oliver @Waine
- 17 September 2014
While the benefits of farming activities in large West African cities are starting to be recognised within the...
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Preparing for a protest vote?
Rémi Lefebvre & translated by Oliver @Waine
- 18 June 2014
Between 2008 and 2014, the French Socialist Party was, more than ever before, a party of “local politicians”. Here,...
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The new banks of the Seine: all for the best, or just another Woody Allen set?
Mathieu Flonneau & translated by Oliver @Waine
- 21 May 2014
June 2013 saw the completion of a project to transform the riverside expressway on the Left Bank of the Seine in...
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The Localism Act in London: institutionalising urban divisions
Justinien Tribillon
- 16 April 2014
By decentralising planning powers to local communities, the British Conservative government claims that they are...
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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...
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The grandeur and decadence of the suburbs
Violaine Girard & Jean Rivière & translated by Oliver @Waine
- 18 September 2013
Periurban areas emerged in the 2000s as “new” spaces indicative of recent changes in French society – the weakening of...
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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...
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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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