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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...
Essays
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...
Essays
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...
Essays
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...
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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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Far from the Ballot Box: The Political Exclusion of the Working Classes in France
Camille Peugny & translated by Oliver Waine
- 4 July 2018
Following the French presidential and parliamentary elections of 2017, the question of equal access to the...
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The Urban Heart of a Just Transition: How Cities Plan for Social Justice in Climate Action
Alexa Waud
- 3 April 2018
Cities are often framed as sustainability saviors. Alexa Waud analyzes 20 climate action plans of cities that...
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Looking Forward to 2020 While Looking Back: A Brief History of the US Census
Frank Donnelly
- 27 February 2018
As preparations for the 2020 census are under way in the United States, Frank Donnelly looks back at how the census...
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Institutional Roadblocks to Achieving Environmental Justice Through Public Participation: The Case of CSO Control in US Cities
Rebekah Breitzer
- 24 January 2018
Rather than meaningfully involving representatives of environmental-justice communities in decisions about the...
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Birdwatching in the City: A Case for Multispecies Tourism
Elizabeth Cherry & August Davidson-Onsgard & Lisa Jean Moore
- 16 January 2018
This essay analyzes the growth of urban avitourism—wildlife tourism focused on birds—as an activity that drives...
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Urban Shrinkage in France: An Invisible Issue?
Rémi Dormois & Sylvie Fol & translated by Oliver Waine
- 13 September 2017
Although the phenomenon of urban shrinkage affects a significant number of French towns and cities, it is an issue...
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The Happy Few and the Unhappy Many: Endangered Artists in Global Cities
Boris Grésillon & translated by John Barrett
- 15 June 2017
While participating or having participated in reshaping urban spaces, artists seem to be increasingly driven away...
Essays
American Shrinking Cities May Not Need to Grow
Deborah E. Popper & Frank J. Popper
- 25 April 2017
Successful cities are expected to continually grow, and when this doesn’t happen, city managers typically try to...
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Urban Decline Is Not Natural
Jason Hackworth
- 11 April 2017
Is urban decline inevitable for cities affected by deindustrialization? While many scholars espouse the idea that...
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Counterpublic Spaces and Movement-Building
Oksana Mironova
- 8 March 2017
To make themselves and their causes visible in traditional public arenas like streets and parks, social activists...
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The Arts as Fundamental—and Fragile—in Community Life
Andrew Zitcer & Julie Hawkins & Neville Vakharia
- 22 February 2017
Arts funding in America mirrors the inequality found in society more broadly. Yet amid persistent poverty and other...
Essays
This is Not How it Ends: Post-Election Immigration Organizing in the United States
Folasade K. Famakinwa
- 7 December 2016
In response to a tense post-election moment in the US, the Metropolitics editorial committee has initiated...
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Cracks Where the Light Gets in: Recent Legal Breakthroughs in Detention and Crimmigration in Canada
Petra Molnar & Stephanie J. Silverman
- 7 December 2016
While the criminalization of immigrants has been pervasive—leading many to adopt the word “crimmigration”—that does...
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Remaking Black Political Spaces for Black Liberation
Akira Drake Rodriguez
- 1 December 2016
What are the political implications of the redistribution of the Black population in the US? Akira Drake Rodriguez...
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Overcoming the “Scalar Stalemate” in Community Development
Evan Casper-Futterman
- 14 October 2016
When urban practitioners undertake local projects, they are often working not only to achieve material gains in...
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The Crisis of Geographical Imagination in Turkey
Luka Lucić
- 21 June 2016
Ethnic, nationalistic and social tensions are at an all-time high in Turkey, exacerbated by the re‑emergence of the...
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The Wrecker’s Pick. The Rationales and Hidden Agendas of Urban Renewal in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Alain Faure & translated by Christina Mitrakos
- 7 June 2016
Alain Faure, a scholar of the social history of cities, puts urban renewal into perspective. He questions the...
Essays
In Havana, Tourism Development Before the US Tsunami
Lily M. Hoffman
- 22 March 2016
The easing of Cuban–US relations will likely bring a new wave of tourists to Cuba. Although the Cuban government...
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Urban renewal and the “defensible space” model: the growing impact of security issues on the way our cities develop
Camille Gosselin & translated by Oliver Waine
- 12 February 2016
In transforming the urban planning and architecture of social-housing estates, urban-renewal policies are not just...
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Immigrant Growth Machines: Metropolitan Reinvention in Los Angeles
Melody Chiong & Jan Lin
- 9 February 2016
Building on Logan and Molotch’s highly influential concept of the urban “growth machine,” Jan Lin and Melody Chiong...
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In the current political debates about discriminatory policing, there has been a lack of serious discussion of...
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