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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 his...

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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 trying...

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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 industry,...

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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 mergers...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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“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...

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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 for...

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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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Mongolian (Urban) Homes

Lucile Chombart de Lauwe & Justine Pribetich & translated by Oliver Waine - 29 April 2013

The rapid urbanisation that Mongolia has undergone in recent years has changed the way its population lives. These...

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Regulating public spaces: the ambiguous role played by new professions

Jacques de Maillard & translated by Oliver Waine - 17 April 2013

Despite a hiatus in the debate on community policing in France, the “new professions” involved in regulating public...

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Renovation and consultation: Parisian approaches to redeveloping public spaces

Bruno Gouyette & translated by Oliver Waine - 6 February 2013

When renovating its public spaces, how does the city of Paris implement consultation processes required by French law...

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Ambivalences of Gender Planning

Sandra Huning - 23 January 2013

How can a gender approach be integrated into urban planning? Sandra Huning here considers this question and presents...

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Santa Claus: Planner of the ’Pole

Marc Lohez & translated by Oliver Waine - 19 December 2012

Since the 1960s, the legend of Santa Claus has been a driving force for Lapland’s territorial development. The image...

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The reconstruction of Beirut: sowing the seeds for future conflicts?

Bruno Marot & Serge Yazigi & translated by Oliver Waine - 14 November 2012

Periods of post-war reconstruction are often the backdrop for new socio-economic and political dynamics. In Beirut,...

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Children’s autonomy and our relationship with public spaces

Clément Rivière & translated by Oliver Waine - 7 November 2012

The relationship between children and the city – a subject seldom studied in France in the past – has in recent years...

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(Re-)Inventing self-build housing in Strasbourg

Anne Debarre & Hélène Steinmetz & translated by Oliver Waine - 17 October 2012

In the world of alternative housing, Strasbourg is an important player. Here, Anne Debarre and Hélène Steinmetz...

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The Vertical Village: the long road travelled by a Lyon housing cooperative

Marie-Pierre Marchand & translated by Oliver Waine - 10 October 2012

The “Village Vertical” development that has taken shape in a mixed-development zone in Villeurbanne, near Lyon, is...

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Challenges in Co-Producing Publicly Accessible Spaces

Ulrich Berding & Antje Havemann & Juliane Pegels - 19 September 2012

Publicly accessible urban spaces are more often than not co-produced and maintained via ad hoc partnerships between...

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Haiti after the earthquake: camps, shanty towns and housing shortages

Gerry L’Étang & translated by Oliver Waine - 2 May 2012

In Haiti, in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, public squares became the sites of makeshift camps to provide...

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Housing the “harkis”: long-term segregation

Abderahmen Moumen & translated by Oliver Waine - 4 April 2012

The end of the Algerian War saw the arrival en masse of thousands of pieds-noirs and harkis in mainland France. From...

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