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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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Will local-government reform in London involve or abandon its citizens?
Martine Drozdz & translated by Oliver Waine
- 3 July 2013
While the current financial crisis has compromised local authorities’ ability to deliver municipal services, the...
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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...
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Identity checks and the law
Nathalie Ferré & translated by Oliver Waine
- 24 April 2013
In France, the issue of identity checks is at the heart of the thorny debate on how to ensure better relations...
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When agriculture meets the city…
André Torre & Lise Bourdeau-Lepage & translated by Oliver Waine
- 10 April 2013
In this article, André Torre and Lise Bourdeau-Lepage consider the role of nature in the city through the prism of...
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Jobs and geography: can the “functional hypercentrality” of Paris be an asset for the surrounding region?
Lise Bourdeau-Lepage & Élisabeth Tovar & translated by Oliver Waine
- 20 February 2013
In a context of increasing competition among global cities, is it possible that Paris’s key asset is the spatial...
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Do local politicians represent the people? A sociological portrait
Michel Koebel & translated by Oliver Waine
- 28 November 2012
France’s 500,000 local councillors are regularly presented as the most popular elected officials and those closest...
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Rent control: a miracle solution to the housing crisis?
Jean Bosvieux & translated by Oliver Waine
- 21 November 2012
The sharp rise in housing costs in France since the end of the 1990s has generated much debate on the subject of...
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Participation and housing policies: a century-old phenomenon
Marie-Hélène Bacqué & Claire Carriou & translated by Oliver Waine
- 24 October 2012
The recent renewed interest in participatory housing experiments is, in fact, linked to a much longer history that...
Debates
Social housing in Europe: the end of an era?
Noémie Houard & translated by Oliver Waine
- 26 September 2012
Although there is no single European model for social housing, there are nevertheless a number of common trends and...
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The digital city: challenges for the future
Serge Wachter & translated by Oliver Waine
- 16 May 2012
What is the impact of digital technology on the city and its architecture? Serge Wachter analyses the way in which...
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Organic school meals: what remains of the pioneer spirit?
Leïla Kebir & translated by Oliver Waine
- 9 May 2012
The concept of “organic canteens” has proved remarkably successful, buoyed by the Grenelle de l’Environnement (the...
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From Vélib’ to Autolib’: private corporations’ involvement in urban mobility policy
Maxime Huré & translated by Oliver Waine
- 25 April 2012
In December 2011 – four years after the launch of Vélib’ – Paris inaugurated Autolib’, the largest system of...
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Water, sanitation, energy, waste: the dawn of the network-free city?
Sylvain Petitet & translated by Oliver Waine
- 18 April 2012
Negative externalities, changes in society and technological innovation all call into question the industrial model...
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Local food: a concrete Utopia
Christian Deverre & Jean-Baptiste Traversac & translated by Oliver Waine
- 15 February 2012
Roland Vidal recently invited us to look beyond short food-supply chains and rethink local links between cities and...
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The risk of nuclear accident: a territorial approach
Ambroise Pascal & translated by Oliver Waine
- 1 February 2012
How many people live in the vicinity of French nuclear power stations? Recent events – notably in Japan, but also in...
Debates
Towers of Power
Jean-Marie Huriot & translated by Oliver Waine
- 25 January 2012
Following on from Manuel Appert’s contribution, Jean-Marie Huriot discusses what is at stake in the skyscraper race....
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Shale Gas: Local Democracy vs Central Government
Pascal Terrasse & translated by Oliver Waine
- 18 January 2012
Without local consultation, the French government has granted permission for the exploration of shale gas plays...
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Why isn’t there enough housing in France?
Jean-Claude Driant & translated by Oliver Waine
- 11 January 2012
The idea that France is experiencing a serious housing deficit, requiring a massive home-building policy is the...
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The difficulties of housing the Chinese “sandwich class”
Jie Chen & Bernard Vorms & translated by Oliver Waine
- 21 December 2011
In China, young people from the middle classes are said to belong to a “sandwich class”: they do not have enough...
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Skyline policy: the Shard and London’s high-rise debate
Manuel Appert & translated by Oliver Waine
- 14 December 2011
At a time when major cities are racing to build higher than ever, and when the construction of skyscrapers in...
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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...
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Is rising home ownership bad for employment?
Jean Bosvieux & Bernard Coloos & translated by Oliver Waine
- 9 November 2011
Homeowners everywhere are less mobile than tenants. However, does home ownership have a negative effect on...
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The desirable city or the sustainable city: what is the role of green spaces?
Jean-François Guet & translated by Birdwell Institute
- 2 November 2011
While green spaces are in great demand among city-dwellers, their presence alone is not enough to make the city...
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Participatory democracy in large-scale contexts: citizen participation in urban planning in Paris and Córdoba
Héloïse Nez & translated by Oliver Waine
- 19 October 2011
Participatory urban planning often comes up against the question of scale, with local councillors accepting to...
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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...
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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