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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...
From the Field
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...
From the Field
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...
From the Field
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...
From the Field
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...
From the Field
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...
From the Field
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,...
From the Field
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...
From the Field
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...
From the Field
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...
From the Field
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...
From the Field
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...
From the Field
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...
From the Field
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...
From the Field
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...
From the Field
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...
From the Field
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...
From the Field
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...
From the Field
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...
From the Field
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...
From the Field
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...
From the Field
¡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...
From the Field
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...
From the Field
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...
From the Field
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...
From the Field
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...
From the Field
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...
From the Field
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...
From the Field
Spaces of Inclusion and Exclusion: Algerians in Paris, France
Elizabeth Nelson
- 4 October 2022
In the context of contemporary French republicanism, how do Algerians in Paris assert their identities and...
From the Field
Lockdown Experiences of the Youth of the Paris
Banlieues
Jeanne Demoulin & Collectif Pop-Part & translated by Oliver Waine
- 16 September 2022
How did young people from working-class neighborhoods in France experience lockdown during the Covid-19 crisis? A...
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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...
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...
Reviews
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...
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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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