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An Unexpected Victory in the Fight to Save Philadelphia Chinatown

Andrew Lee - 14 October 2025

Grassroots efforts to counter gentrification-inducing megaprojects often fail as elected officials negotiate various...

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The Emergence of Transnational Queer Organizing Across a Hardening US–Canada Border

Elizabeth Hessek - 30 September 2025

LGTBQ+ refugees in the United States not only face the violence of the nation’s immigration policy but are also...

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The Fight for Community Ownership in Los Angeles Chinatown via the LA Chinatown CLT

Amy Zhou - 8 July 2025

Community land trusts are one strategy to stem displacement due to real-estate speculation in Chinatowns across North...

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Istanbul as a Showcase of AKP’s Electoral Techno-Nationalism

Yohanan Benhaïm & translated by Oliver Waine - 3 June 2025

In Turkey, President Tayyip Erdoğan was re-elected for a third term in May 2023. Yohanan Benhaïm looks back on the...

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Integration or Chainsaw: Some Reflections on the Policies of Cruelty in Milei’s Argentina Based on the ReNaBaP Case | Integración o motosierra: Reflexiones sobre las políticas de crueldad en la Argentina de Milei a partir del caso ReNaBaP

Facundo A. Corti - 20 May 2025

Policy efforts in Argentina to reduce housing inequality have been met with Milei’s chainsaw. Facundo A. Corti shows...

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Argentina: The Rental Issue in the Milei Era | Argentina: la problemática del alquiler en la era Milei

Nicolás A. Trivi - 29 April 2025

In Argentina, the reforms promoted by the libertarian government represent an offensive of capital on labor. Nicolás...

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Massive Evictions and Housing Crisis in Chile

Santiago Castillo Braithwaite - 15 April 2025

In the midst of a deep housing crisis, more than 100,000 families in Chile are currently living in informal...

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The Uruguayan Housing Cooperatives: The Miracle of the “Commons” | Las cooperativas de vivienda uruguayas. El milagro de los “comunes”

Benjamín Nahoum - 8 April 2025

Benjamín Nahoum presents the case of the Uruguayan cooperative movement that started in the 1960s. Through the years,...

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Geolocation Among Teenage Peers: Between Play, Control, and Gendered Vulnerability

Yann Bruna & translated by Oliver Waine - 28 March 2025

Geolocation practices among teenagers are ambivalent, combining aspects of both play and surveillance. Yann Bruna...

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Large-Scale Farming in the Face of Competing Land Uses in Abidjan District, Côte d’Ivoire

Adjoba Marthe Koffi-Didia & translated by Oliver Waine - 21 March 2025

To the west of Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire’s largest city, large farming operations—owned by multinational companies...

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A Crisis of Habitation in LA’s Last Remaining Wetland

Deike Peters & Sam Lutzker - 18 March 2025

As housing crises become increasingly entangled with environmental crises, the question of just outcomes requires...

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Dusting off the Archives: Connecting Historical Renters’ Activism to Contemporary Housing-Justice Efforts

Céline Drieskens - 5 March 2025

Drawing parallels between the first renters’ union in Brussels and the contemporary efforts of WUUNE, a newly formed...

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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 private...

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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...

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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 initiatives....

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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 are...

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