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Social Norms and Resistance on the City Bus

Sofya Aptekar - 5 May 2015

While subways are hailed as the quintessential New York experience, with their own museum, T-shirts, and lore, the...

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Exporting French-style “sustainable cities” to Morocco

Pierre-Arnaud Barthel & translated by Oliver Waine - 1 May 2015

In Morocco, environmental urban projects are the order of the day. For these projects, French expertise is being...

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Food Deserts and Wage Deserts: The Importance of Metaphor in Policy and Activism

Laura Wolf-Powers - 28 April 2015

So-called “food deserts,” or neighborhoods deprived of businesses that sell healthy foods, are also poor...

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The Future of Asbury Park: Gentrification and Youth in a Coastal Community

Alicia Raia-Hawrylak - 31 March 2015

Once known as a successful beach community, with a lively boardwalk and thriving rock music scene, the city of...

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Arts Districts Without Artists

Meghan Ashlin Rich - 23 March 2015

Numerous studies have examined gentrification’s harmful effects for low-income residents, but few examine the...

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The Massive Death of China’s Urban Villages

Stefan Al - 17 March 2015

As expanding Chinese cities engulfed their hinterlands, chengzhoncun—villages within the city—became an affordable...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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