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Integrating the train into the city: some thoughts from Spain
Luis Santos y Ganges & translated by Eric Rosencrantz
- 21 September 2011
Are inner-city railways condemned to form boundaries or barriers within the city? Based on a critique of the...
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Designing protests in urban public space
Tali Hatuka
- 14 September 2011
Social and political protests in urban public spaces are multiplying in cities all around the world. Tali Hatuka...
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New Orleans as a Rust Belt City?
Robert J. S. Ross
- 6 July 2011
New Orleans needs to recover not only from the 2005 catastrophic flooding of Katrina, but also from a much more...
Debates
For a Critique of the Liberal Foundations of American Cities
David Imbroscio
- 29 June 2011
Profoundly touched by the consequences of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, David Imbroscio seeks concrete...
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Who cares about care? Health care rationalization and the demise of a public hospital after Katrina
Anne M. Lovell
- 8 June 2011
Charity Hospital served the poor and uninsured in one of the US’s unhealthiest cities. Though repaired after...
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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...
Debates
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...
Debates
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,...
Debates
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...
Debates
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...
Debates
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...
Debates
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...
Debates
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...
Debates
“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...
Debates
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...
Debates
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...
Debates
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 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...
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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...
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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