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Fablabs in Africa: Digital Innovation for Sustainable Cities?
Armelle Choplin & Martin Lozivit & translated by Oliver Waine
- 16 April 2021
In a context where “smart cities” are being promoted in urban projects in Africa, Armelle Choplin and Martin Lozivit...
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The House is Ours: How Moms 4 Housing Challenged the Private-Property Paradigm
Lauren Everett
- 6 October 2020
In the midst of a global housing affordability crisis that has been heightened by the Covid‑19 pandemic, it is time...
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Shelters for Profit, Not People: The Rise of Tax-Credit Investment in US Cities
Renee Tapp
- 22 September 2020
Tax-credit investment in US cities provides tax havens for investors, and squanders taxpayer resources on...
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Create, Don’t Destroy: Laying the Foundation for a Public Discourse on Racial Justice in Germany
Janina L. Selzer
- 15 September 2020
A night of violence left Stuttgart, a usually peaceful German city, with many unanswered questions. While...
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Community-Rooted Organizations: Enhanced Accountability and Capacity Building for Community Development
Camryn Smith & Danielle Spurlock & Aliyah Abdur-Rahman & Kay Jowers
- 10 July 2020
Communities in Partnership, in Durham, North Carolina, uses a “community-rooted” approach to its work that leverages...
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The Right to the City: An Emancipating Concept?
Matthias Lecoq & translated by Oliver Waine
- 3 July 2020
The radical approach formulated by Henri Lefebvre in 1968 criticized the failure to include inhabitants in the...
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Consent-Based Social Dancing Spaces and the Right to the City
Rebecca Krisel
- 30 June 2020
Consent-based programs in social dancing venues in New York City are an initial step in supporting social dancing...
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Reflections on Retooling for the Covid‑19 Pandemic
Nichola Lowe & Tara Vinodrai
- 19 June 2020
Factories are adapting to the new conditions and needs the coronavirus has introduced by retooling production lines...
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Homeless Theory and Research Collaboration: A Tribute to Nikita Price
Eric Goldfischer & Odilka Santiago
- 9 June 2020
At a time when too many people are dying, Eric Goldfischer and Odilka Santiago remember Nikita Price of Picture the...
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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...
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Educating Tenants: A Historic Remit of Social Housing
Danièle Voldman & translated by Oliver Waine
- 17 April 2020
In France, the professions of social worker and concierge both emerged in the early 20th century, and both...
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When Measurement Matters: Displacement, Gentrification, Residential Mobility
H. Jacob Carlson
- 14 April 2020
Scholarly studies of displacement resulting from gentrification are inconsistent in what they measure, and omit...
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The New Suburban Secession: A Postfascist Turn in Atlanta’s Cityhood Movement
Coleman Allums & Scott Markley
- 10 March 2020
In this essay, Coleman Allums and Scott Markley analyze a suburban secessionist movement in Atlanta, Georgia. They...
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New York Tech Dossier: Insecure Frontier Jobs? Staying Relevant in New York’s Tech Ecosystem
Max Papadantonakis
- 21 January 2020
“Frontier” jobs in digital technologies promise lucrative career paths, but Max Papadantonakis’s research suggests...
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New York Tech Dossier: The Declining Significance of Proximity in Venture Capital Investments
Joanna Dressel
- 14 January 2020
Venture capital investment in New York City has increased over the last decade, contributing to the development of...
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New York Tech Dossier: “Innovation Districts” in New York: Contentious Geographies of Growth
Sharon Zukin
- 7 January 2020
Sharon Zukin analyzes how city government in New York has supported concentrations of tech firms—“innovation...
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Poverty as a Social Stigma
Axelle Brodiez-Dolino & translated by Oliver Waine
- 13 December 2019
The distinction between the “deserving” and “undeserving” poor is deeply entrenched, and representations of poverty...
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From non-planning to cutting-edge policy: the transformation of waste management in Boston since the 1980s
Lily Baum Pollans
- 11 June 2019
Recycling and composting are hot topics. Lily Baum Pollans argues that Boston’s changing approach to waste...
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Urban Renewal in the USA: A Neoliberal Policy?
Thomas Kirszbaum & translated by Oliver Waine
- 3 May 2019
By allowing demolitions and evictions in well-located working-class neighborhoods, urban renewal is sometimes...
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As NYC (Again) Considers Comprehensive Planning, History Offers Insight
K. C. Alvey
- 12 February 2019
Comprehensive planning can be a progressive governance tool, helping leaders keep broad principles like equity and...
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The Treatment of “North Africans” in 1960s Urban Renewal in France
Janoé Vulbeau & translated by Oliver Waine
- 1 February 2019
While France’s 1960s urban renewal has been studied in terms of its effects on the working classes, its racial...
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Solidarity Economics and Rights to the Contested City in Belfast
Brendan Murtagh
- 19 December 2018
Is Lefebvre’s right to the city capable of extending the abstract meaning of formal “rights” to practical...
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Organizing Against
Projet Gentrification
: Housing Activism in a White-Supremacist Landscape in Montreal
Pierce Nettling
- 27 November 2018
Housing activists in Montreal and Quebec have successfully sought to secure tenant rights and social housing for...
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Electricity in War-Torn Aleppo: A New Form of Urban Management
Youssef Diab & Abboud Hajjar & translated by Oliver Waine
- 23 November 2018
In Syria, electricity is one of the sectors most adversely affected by the war. New means of electricity...
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Migrants’ Occupation of Lycée Jean Quarré: The Refugee Cause and the Cause of a Neighborhood
Isabelle Coutant & translated by Oliver Waine
- 16 November 2018
The flows of migrants seeking refuge in Europe since the summer of 2015 have led to temporary settlements—legal or...
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Getting Night Lighting Right
Samuel Challéat & Dany Lapostolle & translated by Oliver Waine
- 2 November 2018
Innovation in contemporary urban lighting has increasingly been driven by issues of sustainability. While...
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The Making of a Progressive Mayor: James Kenney of Philadelphia
Richardson Dilworth
- 17 October 2018
Philadelphia’s voters elected James Kenney Mayor in 2015 after he had served more than two decades as an at‑large...
Essays
Local Leadership and Global Goals: How City Sustainability Networks are Changing Progressive Policymaking
Emma French & Supraja Sudharsan & Jennifer Clark
- 18 September 2018
While national governments often struggle to address global climate change, cities are in a better position to...
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The Limits of Progressive Policymaking in US Cities
Richard Schragger
- 11 September 2018
While many US cities appear to enjoy extensive powers—as evidenced by the progressive policies enacted by certain...
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The Educational Fortunes of Children of Immigrants in France
Mathieu Ichou & translated by Oliver Waine
- 6 July 2018
How can the attainment gap between children of immigrants and children of native-born parents be explained? While...
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Meghan Ashlin Rich
- 23 March 2015
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Interrupting Inequality: Crisis and Opportunity in Low-Income Housing Policy
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- 26 January 2015
Inequality in the United States is deeply rooted in issues of property ownership, wealth, race and class....
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Kanal İstanbul: a “crazy project” serving political ambitions
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