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Excluding Fast and Slow: Charlottesville’s Long Battle over Public Space
Frank Muraca
- 9 January 2018
The “Unite the Right” white-supremacist rally in downtown Charlottesville, Virginia, erupted into violence, killing...
From the Field
Demystifying Urban Agriculture in Detroit
Flaminia Paddeu
- 14 December 2017
Urban agriculture projects in North American shrinking cities have been the subject of much media attention in...
From the Field
Mitigating urban decline through the compact city? Reflections on 15 years of urban recentralization policies in Japan
Sophie Buhnik
- 7 December 2017
To cope with a rapidly spreading and now pervasive phenomenon of urban decline, Japanese authorities have actively...
From the Field
Dwelling—Living—Waiting: Transformations of a Refugee Reception Camp in Germany
Nina Riewe
- 21 November 2017
In wealthy German cities, which have received tens of thousands of refugees from the Middle East and Northern...
From the Field
Snowbirds’ Gift Economy in the Arizona Desert
David Frati
- 7 November 2017
Each year, 200,000 retired people spend the winter in and around the small town of Quartzsite, Arizona, in the...
From the Field
Who Stays and Who Leaves? Residential Flows in French Shrinking Cities
Mathilde Rudolph
- 1 November 2017
In focusing on residential flows, Mathilde Rudolph seeks to shed light on the processes of urban decline at play in...
From the Field
No Lawful Status: Immigrant Youth in a State of Exclusion
Alexis Silver
- 24 October 2017
When the Trump administration rescinded the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, nearly 800,000...
From the Field
Shrinking to Survive? Demolition and Energy Transition in Small-Town France
Yoan Miot & Max Rousseau & translated by Oliver Waine
- 18 October 2017
Faced with a process of advanced decline, public and private actors in the town of Vitry-le-François, in eastern...
From the Field
Projecting Supply and Demand for Middle-Skill Occupations in US States and Metro Areas
James Orr & Ofronama Biu
- 10 October 2017
Analysts have long noted difficulties in quantifying and projecting skill mismatches in local labor markets....
From the Field
Shrinking Cities in France: The Cumulative Effects of Decline
Nicolas Cauchi-Duval & Frédérique Cornuau & Mathilde Rudolph & translated by Oliver Waine
- 4 October 2017
In France, different shrinking cities have followed different trajectories. They nevertheless all have certain...
From the Field
Shrinking Networks, Growing Solidarities? How to Design a New Social and Territorial Contract
Daniel Florentin
- 27 September 2017
Utilities operators in a number of European cities, faced with significant reductions in consumption levels across...
From the Field
From “Black City” to “Slum City”: The Importance of Image in Saint-Étienne
Vincent Béal & Christelle Morel Journel & Valérie Sala Pala & translated by Oliver Waine
- 20 September 2017
In December 2014, an article in the French daily newspaper Le Monde painted a highly negative portrait of the city...
From the Field
Swept Away: Public Work and the Politics of Employment in New York City’s Parks
John Krinsky & Maud Simonet
- 6 September 2017
Upwards of 4,000 unionized civil-service workers once cleaned and maintained New York City’s parks. Today about...
From the Field
The Americanization of French social movements? Community organizing and its discontents in the
banlieues
Julien Talpin
- 29 June 2017
In this second of two articles, sociologist Julien Talpin discusses the importation to France of American...
From the Field
What’s the matter with the
banlieues
? Exploring the importation of the American community organizing tradition by French social movements
Julien Talpin
- 22 June 2017
With the eclipse of the once-powerful Communist and Socialist Parties in France, and these parties’ traditional...
From the Field
Rendering a Redeveloped France
Alex Schafran & Giorgia Aiello & Theresa Enright & Yohann Le Moigne
- 7 June 2017
As urban redevelopment projects remake the Greater Paris region, it is impossible to separate an avalanche of new...
From the Field
Citizen Outsider: Racism, Marginalization, and Immigration in France
Jean Beaman
- 31 May 2017
As refugee crises have emerged and immigration has increased in many regions of the world, several Western...
From the Field
The Evolution of New York City’s Black Neighborhoods
John Mollenkopf
- 9 May 2017
Especially in the central cities of the Northeast, neighborhoods that were once identified with black politics and...
From the Field
The Actually Existing Markets of Shrinking Cities
Joshua Akers
- 18 April 2017
In a bid to halt urban decline, Michigan’s state government sought to create incentives for the creation of urban...
From the Field
Overcoming Decline Through Graffiti? The Case of the Open Space Gallery in Halle (Saale)
Nina Gribat
- 4 April 2017
Open Space Gallery, a collective in Halle (Saale), Germany, turned the marginalized neighborhood of Freiimfelde...
From the Field
DIY Urbanism in Shrinking Cities: Or, What Neighbors Are Left With When Markets Withdraw and Governments Contract
Kimberley Kinder
- 27 March 2017
DIY culture is one of the zeitgeists of our time. Hipster home-brewing, swing-dance flash mobs, and pop-up maker...
From the Field
Estate Regeneration in London: Politics and Protest
Gerald Koessl
- 31 January 2017
Gerald Koessl describes dilemmas facing social-housing providers in London, where social housing often serves as...
From the Field
The Ongoing Housing Crisis and the Rust Belt Revolt for the GOP
Elora Lee Raymond
- 13 January 2017
In response to a tense post-election moment in the US, the Metropolitics editorial committee has initiated...
From the Field
Contesting Economies of Displacement and Dispossession
Joshua Akers
- 13 January 2017
Joshua Akers describes Detroit’s housing crisis, characterized by speculation, displacement, and increasingly...
From the Field
Land Titling: A Tool, not a Panacea
Kareem Ibrahim & Deena Khalil
- 20 December 2016
The government of Egypt has long relied on land titling to limit the growth of informal urban residential...
From the Field
Struggles over Rights and Representations in the Migrant Metropolis: Reverberations of the Trump Effect in the Global South
María V. Barbero
- 7 December 2016
While Latin America figures in US debates about immigration as a source of immigrants, Trump-style anti-immigrant...
From the Field
Proclaiming “Veggie Pride” in Paris and New York
Elizabeth Cherry
- 22 November 2016
How do animal-rights activists promote vegetarianism? Many activists use environmental and health arguments, but...
From the Field
A Welcoming (and Sometimes Not) America: Immigrant Integration in the New South
Anna Joo Kim
- 1 November 2016
In a departure from traditional patterns of migrant settlement in the US, a cluster of ethnoburbs is emerging in...
From the Field
Liberty, Community and Religion: A Hispano-Moroccan Family in Andalusia
Alain Cottereau & translated by Oliver Waine
- 11 October 2016
In Europe, the relationship that migrants originating from the Arab Muslim world – whether first- or...
From the Field
Building a Multifaceted Campaign for Public Higher Education
Stephen Brier & Michael Fabricant
- 4 October 2016
In their new book, Austerity Blues: Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education, Michael Fabricant and Stephen...
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Frederick Wiseman’s fortieth documentary film, In Jackson Heights (2015), returns to an urban theme explored in...
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