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Bienville’s Dilemma: New Orleans Between Site and Situation

Richard Campanella - 25 May 2011
Ever since its founding at the mouth of the Mississippi river, New Orleans is the result of a delicate compromise...
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The (mis)measurement of periurbanization

Anne Lambert & translated by Eric Rosencrantz - 11 May 2011
(Peri)urban sprawl is unanimously decried as a cause for economic, environmental and social concern. And yet...
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The Wealth of Local Currencies

Sophie Donzel & translated by Eric Rosencrantz - 27 April 2011
Following up on Smaïn Laacher’s essay on Local Exchange Trading Systems (LETS), Sophie Donzel, deputy mayor of...
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Access to home-ownership: what are the effects of the economic crisis?

Bernard Vorms & translated by Oliver Waine - 20 April 2011
A 70% home-ownership rate? This is the stated objective of the reform that has recently come into effect in France,...
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The Handicaps of Handicapped Housing

Catherine Carpentier & Emmanuelle Colboc & translated by Eric Rosencrantz - 13 April 2011
Since February 2005, all new and renovated housing in France has to meet standards of accessibility for the...
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Suburbanization as a Project

Martin Vanier & translated by Christina Mitrakos - 6 April 2011
Experts and policies fail to recognize the contradictions that urban sprawl creates and rarely go beyond...
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Homosexual City, Homophobic Banlieue?

Éric Fassin & translated by Christina Mitrakos - 9 March 2011
Is homophobia prevalent in social housing projects? Is sexual orientation the new divide between civilizations? Éric...
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Housing: for an act III of the decentralization process

Patrice Lanco & translated by Michael Stokes - 18 February 2011
Although housing has not been concerned before now by decentralization, the contrasted realities of local markets...
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The city is sustainable development

Jacques Lévy & translated by Eric Rosencrantz - 9 February 2011
After unraveling the divergent conceptions of the relationship between “nature” and “society” that underlie the debate...
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Building cities without young urban planners?

Jean-Philippe Gallardo & translated by Claudio Cambon - 2 February 2011
The National Collective of Young Urban Planners (CNJU) is sounding the alarm bell about the discrimination that...
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Why Build New Housing?

Jean-Claude Driant & translated by Christina Mitrakos - 28 January 2011
Can building more houses solve the housing problem? Jean-Claude Driant shows that a simple quantitative approach...
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“Roma Villages” or the Reinvention of Cités de Transit

Olivier Legros & translated by Christina Mitrakos - 3 January 2011
In France, many Bulgarian and Romanian Roma migrants are being deported back to their home country. Certain...
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Grand Huit, big gamble, big problem

Jean-Pierre Orfeuil & translated by Michael Stokes - 22 December 2010
The secretary of State for the development of Paris and its region, Christian Blanc, left office in July 2010. He...
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The New French Ghettos

Hervé Marchal & Jean-Marc Stébé & translated by Eric Rosencrantz - 16 December 2010
Are housing projects in France – particularly the French slums euphemistically termed Zones Urbaines Sensibles (ZUS...
Debates

Editorial

La rédaction - 26 November 2010
Metropolitics.eu is designed to foster encounters and discussion among all interested in urban, architectural and...
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The Virtues and Vices of the Growth of Homeownership

Jean-Claude Driant & translated by Christina Mitrakos - 24 November 2010
Why is it necessary to become a homeowner? Jean-Claude Driant examines the arguments for and against policies that...

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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...
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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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