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Public authorities and Roma populations in Turin
Elisabetta Rosa & translated by Oliver Waine
- 5 March 2015
For the last three decades or so, European cities have had to deal with the issue of land occupation by migrant...
From the Field
The Other Side of Austin, Texas
Caitlyn Collins & Katherine Jensen & Kristine Kilanski & Javier Auyero
- 2 March 2015
Despite a booming economy, Austin, Texas, is a city where inequalities persist and grow in the shadow of neoliberal...
From the Field
Paying to Play in the Mission District
Naomi Adiv
- 16 February 2015
Naomi Adiv unpacks a viral video showing an argument between longtime San Francisco residents and “dot-commers” over...
From the Field
Mass-Producing the World’s Factory
Stefan Al
- 9 February 2015
The economic transformation of China into a global manufacturing mecca has emptied many rural areas, creating tens...
From the Field
When Predator Becomes Prey: Rental Housing in Low-Income Minority Neighborhoods
Clément Théry
- 2 February 2015
In the growing low-income rental market, predator and prey roles can shift, as landlords and tenants alike can fall...
From the Field
In the Paris metro, hell is other people
Luke Haywood & Martin Koning & translated by Oliver Waine
- 15 January 2015
In the medical field, it is not unusual for remedies prescribed to combat a particular condition to have...
From the Field
The Horseshoe Crab, our Environment and our Health
Lisa Jean Moore
- 15 December 2014
Will we erase all animal diversity in the name of modernity, or will we follow the hints given by the study of the...
From the Field
Bypassing the city: divisions and divergences in Antananarivo
Catherine Fournet-Guérin & translated by Oliver Waine
- 4 December 2014
In a context of global competition, major projects are the order of the day, including in the global South. The new...
From the Field
Participatory Budgeting in New York City
Celina Su
- 1 December 2014
Over the last four years, participatory budgeting has spread from one to more than 45 cities in the US. Reporting...
From the Field
The Abattoir’s Call: At the Margins of New York City’s Foodie Movement
Richard E. Ocejo
- 17 November 2014
Food-conscious urban consumers often ask their butcher where their meat comes from. But how many wonder about the...
From the Field
Nantes’ urban project: putting the Bilbao model to the test
Amélie Nicolas & translated by Oliver Waine
- 13 November 2014
The experiences of Bilbao and its urban transformations have been shared and integrated into the urban-planning...
From the Field
New York’s Two Sandys
Daniel Aldana Cohen & Max Liboiron
- 30 October 2014
According to New Yorkers, two different Hurricane Sandys hit their city in 2012. The first was a one-time...
From the Field
Flowers under the flagstones
Cédric Ansart & Emmanuel Boutefeu & translated by Oliver Waine
- 8 October 2014
Cédric Ansart and Emmanuel Boutefeu explore new ways of enhancing city streets through the small-scale greening of...
From the Field
Splitting suburban homes
Anne-Claire Davy & Peggy Mertiny & Mélanie Richard & translated by Oliver Waine
- 1 October 2014
Many local stakeholders in the Paris region have expressed concern regarding the emergence of a process of...
From the Field
The Communists’ Urban Archipelago
Roger Martelli & translated by Oliver Waine
- 24 September 2014
While the Socialist Party was the big loser in France’s municipal elections in March, the French Communist Party was...
From the Field
The electoral effects of social divisions in French cities
Jean Rivière & translated by Oliver Waine
- 2 July 2014
According to many commentators, France’s major cities are bastions of support for the parliamentary left when it...
From the Field
In the shadow of the mayor
Michel Koebel & translated by Oliver Waine
- 25 June 2014
After his investigation into the representativeness of local councillors in France, Michel Koebel has now turned...
From the Field
Slumdog Non-Millionaires
Rémi de Bercegol & Shankare Gowda
- 14 May 2014
In India, the dominant theme of megacities and their development has concealed the significance of small and...
From the Field
Municipal socialism in France from the interwar period to the 1970s
Aude Chamouard & translated by Oliver Waine
- 30 April 2014
“Municipal socialism” has marked the history of many cities in France (Lille, Toulouse and Bordeaux, to name but...
From the Field
Fighting for Retreat after Sandy: The Ocean Breeze Buyout Tent on Staten Island
Liz Koslov
- 23 April 2014
On October 29, 2012, Staten Island, a borough of New York City, was on the front line when Hurricane Sandy ravaged...
From the Field
Coping with crowdedness in mass transportation
Martin Aranguren & Stéphane Tonnelat & translated by Oliver Waine
- 26 February 2014
Riding overcrowded metros, tubes or subways with dozens of strangers in varying moods is routinely viewed as a...
From the Field
The world of the blue-collar worker: changed, but not gone
Julian Mischi & Olivier Pasquiers & Caroline Pottier & Nicolas Renahy & translated by Oliver Waine
- 19 February 2014
Despite deindustrialisation and increasingly acute economic difficulties in the former strongholds of heavy...
From the Field
The burst bubble and the privatisation of planning in Tokyo
Raphaël Languillon-Aussel & translated by Oliver Waine
- 5 February 2014
Since the early 1990s and the collapse of Japan’s asset price bubble, developments in Marunouchi – Tokyo’s main...
From the Field
The mixed success of Toronto’s metropolitan merger
Guillaume Poiret & translated by Oliver Waine
- 20 November 2013
While the debate on local-government reform rages on in France, Guillaume Poiret looks back at the municipal...
From the Field
The metropolisation of “Roma Capitale”: the view from the Tiber delta
Aurélien Delpirou & Dominique Rivière & translated by Oliver Waine
- 6 November 2013
Far from the stereotype of the “sleeping beauty”, the Italian capital is the scene of an important and unique...
From the Field
Gentrification as a driver of social and racial tensions: the case of Brixton
Amélie Bertholet & translated by Oliver Waine
- 16 October 2013
(In)famous for the various riots that have occurred there since the 1980s, the working-class district of Brixton in...
From the Field
Post-industrial cities: towards a new approach
Max Rousseau & translated by Oliver Waine
- 25 September 2013
While anglophone urban studies have sought to critique the way capitalism has developed, the French social sciences...
From the Field
“Soft densification” in Canada
Anastasia Touati & translated by Oliver Waine
- 5 June 2013
Against the backdrop of a housing crisis, a number of local authorities in Ontario, Canada, have developed policies...
From the Field
Pedestrians, cars and the city
Cédric Feriel & translated by Oliver Waine
- 29 May 2013
Pedestrianisation and the ability to get around the city on foot are key considerations in contemporary projects...
From the Field
Château Rouge: a “Little Africa” in Paris?
Marie Chabrol & translated by Oliver Waine
- 22 May 2013
The Château Rouge area of Paris is regarded as an “African neighbourhood”. But what is the reality behind this image?...
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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...
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- 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...
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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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