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Building a Resilient and Equitable City: How to Advance Environmental Justice Through the
OneNYC
Plan
Eddie Bautista & Annel Hernandez & Juan Camilo Osorio & Pamela Soto
- 1 March 2017
Many of the challenges that cities face today stem from historic and entrenched systemic policies and processes...
Debates
On Our Own: Protecting and Developing Social Housing in the Trump Era
John Krinsky
- 13 January 2017
In response to a tense post-election moment in the US, the Metropolitics editorial committee has initiated...
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On Clinton, Obama, Trump and the Failures of Liberal Urban Policy
James DeFilippis
- 15 November 2016
Many progressives are still in shock at the outcome of the recent US presidential election. In this contribution to...
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Climate Action Plans and the “Climate-Just” City
Cecelia Walsh-Russo
- 27 September 2016
In the face of major climatic changes, more and more US cities are developing climate action plans. But while these...
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Let Bodegas Be Bodegas
Dory Thrasher
- 20 September 2016
A new rule proposed by the US Department of Agriculture would impose new stocking rules on food stores that accept...
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Technocratic Values and Uneven Development in the “Smart City”
Taylor Shelton & Jennifer Clark
- 10 May 2016
In the US, the idea of “smart cities” is coming to dominate federal government involvement in, and funding for, urban...
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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...
Debates
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...
Debates
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...
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...
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...
Debates
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%....
Debates
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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From the Field
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...
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...
Reviews
The Dangers of Security
Médéric Martin-Mazé & translated by Oliver Waine
- 22 May 2015
In Against Security, Harvey Molotch highlights – through various examples, including the New York subway, airports,...
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Cycles of Violence: Analysing Media Discourse in the Newspaper...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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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...
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While emissions from the transportation sector remain at a very high level, all hopes are currently pinned on the...
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