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In Norway, Housing Schemes Designed with Children in Mind

Grégoire Tortosa & translated by Oliver Waine - 22 November 2024

How can cities take more of a “child’s eye view”? Grégoire Tortosa shows how avant-garde housing developments in Oslo...

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When the Poor Make a Living from the Waste of the Rich

Simon Joxe & translated by Oliver Waine - 15 November 2024

In Buenos Aires, cartoneros—poor individuals who collect the waste of the rich—have managed to formalize their...

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Tactical Cycling Urbanism and the Health Crisis

Laurent Chapelon & Sandrine Depeau & Benoît Feildel & Adrien Lammoglia & Maëlle Lucas & Nathalie Ortar & Adrien Poisson - 5 July 2024

During the Covid-19 health crisis, cyclist numbers increased significantly in urban areas. Public authorities...

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Russia’s “Authoritarian Modernization” Through Urbanization: What Lessons Can Be Learned from New Moscow?

Vladimir Pawlotsky & translated by Oliver Waine - 28 June 2024

Can the recent New Moscow urban development project shed light on the political, economic and demographic issues of...

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The Struggle to Preserve Hanlan’s Point Beach as Queer Social Infrastructure

Ahmed Allahwala - 28 May 2024

The march of neoliberal urbanism poses grave threats to nature and the people that use it. In this article, Ahmed...

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The Paris of Yesteryear: A Photographic Inventory

Pauline Rossi & translated by Oliver Waine - 14 May 2024

The Commission du Vieux Paris has kept meticulous records of urban transformations, with its own perception of what...

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Working-Class Ecology Versus Olympic Urbanism

Flaminia Paddeu & translated by Oliver Waine - 19 April 2024

In Aubervilliers, north of Paris, swathes of a community garden—the Jardins Ouvriers des Vertus—have been destroyed...

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How Cities Function Ecologically: The Importance of Urban Soils

Sophie Joimel & Baptiste Grard & Laure Vieublé Gonod & Claire Chenu & translated by Oliver Waine - 2 April 2024

What do we know about the diversity of urban soils? Ecologists and soil scientists show that a detailed study of...

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Immigration in the French Countryside

Julie Fromentin & translated by Oliver Waine - 27 February 2024

What place do immigrants occupy in the French countryside? By examining detailed data from the last five decades,...

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Wind Power: Transition Without Debate

Leny Patinaux & translated by Oliver Waine - 9 February 2024

At a time when the construction of wind farms is regularly the subject of criticism and protests, Leny Patinaux...

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Walking and Knowing New York City

Michael B. Kahan - 2 February 2024

“What can we learn and what can we know about a city like New York by walking through it?” Reflecting on his...

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Female Factory Strikes: Emancipatory Non-Mixity?

Ève Meuret-Campfort & translated by Oliver Waine - 26 January 2024

The division of industrial labor often places women workers in all-female factories and low-skilled jobs. Ève...

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The Black Radical Imagination in a Rural Forgotten Space

Brad Stephens & Chris Stephenson & Max O. Stephenson Jr. - 16 January 2024

How does the Black Radical imagination manifest in “forgotten places” amid shifting populations? Brad Stephens, Chris...

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In the Name of Metropolitan Attractiveness

Clément Barbier & translated by Oliver Waine - 8 December 2023

By comparing two urban renewal projects in Lille and Hamburg, Clément Barbier shows that the staging of...

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From Scientific Uncertainty to Strategic Ignorance

Gwenola Le Naour & Valentin Thomas & translated by Oliver Waine - 24 November 2023

In the absence of data, uncertainties about the health risks of industrial pollution abound, and are used by...

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We Are From Nairobi (#panthershit): Black Power Spatial Imaginaries in Silicon Valley

Kimberley S. Johnson - 17 October 2023

East Palo Alto’s Black, Latiné and Pacific Islander residents deploy #panthershit—a Black Power spatial imaginary as a...

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Fifteen-Minute Prisons? A Reflection on the Far-Right Backlash Against Sustainable Development in Britain

Garrett L. Grainger - 4 October 2023

In an era of increasing political polarization, right-wing activists are targeting sustainable planning...

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The Logistics City: Insights from Africa

Hélène Blaszkiewicz & translated by Oliver Waine - 29 September 2023

What might a city dedicated to logistics look like in Africa? How does it connect with global goods flows? These...

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Regulating Basement Conversions in New York City

Ooha Uppalapati - 14 July 2023

Ooha Uppalapati examines the regulation of basement apartments in New York City and the implications of proposed...

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Digital Technology and the City: New Forms of Urban Segregation in Cape Town?

Julien Migozzi & translated by Oliver Waine - 23 June 2023

In the age of platform capitalism, how is digital technology reconfiguring real-estate markets and access to...

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The Reception Chain for Exiled Ukrainians: From Ukraine to Poland and France

Thomas Lacroix & translated by Oliver Waine - 16 June 2023

In contrast to other recent waves of refugees, Ukrainian exiles have been welcomed quickly and massively within the...

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Major Events: The Olympics of Digital Urban Safety?

Myrtille Picaud & translated by Oliver Waine - 2 June 2023

Major international events are increasingly witnessing the deployment of digital security policies and...

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Girls-Only Sport

Antoine Bréau & translated by Oliver Waine - 26 May 2023

Against a backdrop of gender inequalities at school, an experiment in the field of physical education shows that...

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¡Yo soy Boricua! Identity-related work and collective elevation strategies among New York Puerto Ricans

Audrey Célestine & translated by Oliver Waine - 5 May 2023

Puerto Ricans in New York City form a minority group in the struggle against discrimination. Audrey Célestine shows...

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Resisting the Neoliberal City? The Popular Initiative in Berlin

Thomas Chevallier - 17 February 2023

Western representative democracy is in crisis. In response, direct democracy is emerging as a possible path to...

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Closing the Loop or Looping Close By?

Marine Frantz & Gabriel Renault - 7 February 2023

Marine Frantz and Gabriel Renault explore the spatial dimension of the circular economy, particularly in regard to...

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Have Low-Income Households Been Failed by the Sale of Social Housing?

Matthieu Gimat & Manon Le Bon-Vuylsteke & Bruno Marot & translated by Oliver Waine - 6 January 2023

Since 2018, the selling-off of social housing in France, as in other countries in Europe, has accelerated. What are...

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Securing Shelter While Facing Eviction: The Case of Syrian Migrants in Lebanon

Dima El Khouri - 16 December 2022

Dima El Khouri documents the politics of securing housing for Syrian refugees in Lebanon. She shows the complex web...

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Plague and Urban Policy in Bombay, 1896–1914

Vanessa Caru & translated by Oliver Waine - 18 November 2022

What consequences can an epidemic have on a city? Vanessa Caru describes the ways in which a plague epidemic in...

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Women Farmers Doing It for Themselves? The Ambiguous Consequences of Non-Mixed Engagement

Clémentine Comer & translated by Oliver Waine - 1 November 2022

In the farming world, many women’s groups defend the cause of women farmers. Clémentine Comer analyzes the...

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