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From Transit to Settlement. A Mexican Border Town’s Transition from a Transit Space to a Waiting Territory
Isabel Gil-Everaert
- 3 March 2020
Tanapan, a border town in southern Mexico has long been a point of passage for Central American migrants bound for...
From the Field
Unlikely Inter-Class Cooperation in Urbanizing Rural Colombia
Sebastián F. Villamizar Santamaría
- 25 February 2020
Sebastián F. Villamizar Santamaría examines a case of rural gentrification outside of Bogotá, Colombia, and shows how...
From the Field
A Construction Boom in an Urban Floodplain: Long Island City, Queens, NYC
Christopher Ryan
- 11 February 2020
New York City has encouraged development in Long Island City, Queens, even as the neighborhood has not recovered...
From the Field
Displacement, Demobilization, and Democracy: Current Eviction and Historic Dispossession in Richmond, Virginia
Kathryn Howell & Benjamin F. Teresa
- 4 February 2020
High eviction rates in Black Richmond neighborhoods must be understood in the context of a long history of...
From the Field
Nuits Debout
Across Greater Paris: The Spread of a Political Innovation
Laurent Beauguitte & Nicolas Lambert & translated by Oliver Waine
- 20 December 2019
As France experiences strikes and demonstrations in protest against pension reforms, we look back to the spring of...
From the Field
Culture and the Nighttime Economy: A Conversation with London’s Night Czar and Culture-at-Risk Officer
Amin Ghaziani
- 12 November 2019
Amin Ghaziani describes the high closure rate of LGBTQ nighttime venues in London, and the city’s recognition of...
From the Field
Rio de Janeiro: Storms, Militia, and Urban Development
Leandro Benmergui & Rafael Soares Gonçalves & translated by Oliver Waine
- 8 November 2019
The dramatic consequences of storms at the beginning of 2019 in a favela in Rio de Janeiro reveal the ongoing...
From the Field
Open-Air Auto Shops: Subsistence Jobs in Working-Class Neighborhoods
Collectif Rosa Bonheur & translated by Oliver Waine
- 25 October 2019
The informal activities of street mechanics observed by Collectif Rosa Bonheur in northern France attest to a much...
From the Field
Community Movements and Housing Liberalism: Reflections on the Bank of America Low‑Income Housing Competition
Avi Garelick
- 15 October 2019
Avi Garelick describes how the imperative for realism in affordable housing production conflicts with the goals of...
From the Field
Right(s) to the City in Hanoi
Divya Leducq & translated by Oliver Waine
- 11 October 2019
Over the past decade, urban change has accelerated and transformed the physical, social and symbolic landscapes of...
From the Field
National and Urban Politics Converge in Moscow: Will Local Activism Prevail?
Anna Zhelnina
- 1 October 2019
Recent elections in Moscow and across Russia reflect the convergence of local activism and national anti-Kremlin...
From the Field
Understanding the Causes of Eviction-Based Urban Displacement: Bringing Critical Urban Theory Back In
J. Revel Sims
- 24 September 2019
Close analysis of eviction patterns in Dane County, Wisconsin, between 2000 and 2016 suggests that tenant poverty...
From the Field
How Can Talking Save Trees?
Léo Magnin & translated by Oliver Waine
- 12 July 2019
In rural France, tree exchange systems seek to avoiding the felling that typically accompanies exchanges of parcels...
From the Field
Who Cleans Paris? Garbage Collectors in Their Own Words
Coline Ferrant & Marie Mourad & translated by Oliver Waine
- 21 June 2019
Who are Paris’s garbage collectors? Coline Ferrant and Marie Mourad highlight the diverse working conditions covered...
From the Field
Moving Inside City Limits: The Urban Mobility of Undocumented Youth
Stephen P. Ruszczyk
- 4 June 2019
The urban context and public transportation shape how undocumented youths move within cities. In a comparison of...
From the Field
Made in China, Sold in West Africa
Anne Bouhali & Nora Mareï & Mamadou Dimé & translated by Oliver Waine
- 31 May 2019
From a small border post between Senegal and Mauritania, Anne Bouahli, Nora Mareï and Mamadou Dimé follow the journey...
From the Field
How to Defend the Planet in Law
Valérie Cabanes & translated by Oliver Waine
- 19 April 2019
In the face of a growing raft of evidence that increasingly points to an imminent global catastrophe—the very...
From the Field
The Risk of “Foodwashing” in Calls for Innovative Urban Projects
Paula Macé Le Ficher & translated by Oliver Waine
- 22 February 2019
Paula Macé Le Ficher analyzes the ways in which farming and food issues have been integrated into calls for...
From the Field
Bare Mountaintops and Thirsty Cities: On California and its Snowpack
Sayd Randle
- 29 January 2019
Figuring how to represent the oncoming effects of climate change is a common challenge faced by whistleblowers and...
From the Field
Saving Ivy Island: A Civil War in North Portland
Lauren Everett
- 15 January 2019
Lauren Everett examines two different approaches by community activists confronting change in a tight-knit Portland...
From the Field
Photography, Ethnography and Exhibitions in the Projects
Camilo León-Quijano & translated by Oliver Waine
- 11 January 2019
Pictures taken by photographer and sociologist Camilo León-Quijano with the initial aim of understanding the...
From the Field
Race and Progressive Politics in Chicago
John J. Betancur & Leonor Vanik
- 9 January 2019
The progressive movement in Chicago may not be as broad-minded as depicted in the academic literature. Racial...
From the Field
Young People and Cars: A Case of Frustrated Desire?
Yoann Demoli & translated by Oliver Waine
- 30 November 2018
By comparing the results over time of a travel survey in western France, Yoann Demoli challenges the notion that...
From the Field
Backpedaling in Birmingham
William Grady Holt
- 20 November 2018
Despite the 2017 election of progressive, black mayors in major southern US cities, citizens who supported these...
From the Field
When Progressive Mayors Aren’t Enough: Homes for All and Trans-Local Social Movements
H. Jacob Carlson & Marnie Brady & Gianpaolo Baiocchi
- 13 November 2018
Progressive governments are often pulled away from their campaign promises by local growth-coalition interests or...
From the Field
Killing Them Softly: The Environmental Vulnerability of Black Women in Albany, New York
Tanesha A. Thomas
- 23 October 2018
In Albany’s South End, a predominantly low-income African-American neighborhood, tanks storing environmentally...
From the Field
Inclusive Place-Based Leadership: Lesson-Drawing from Urban Governance Innovations in Bristol, UK
Robin Hambleton
- 9 October 2018
Across the world, progressive city leaders are working to limit the damaging impact of decisions made by “placeless”...
From the Field
Beneath the Surface of Chinese Cities: Abandoned Places and Contemporary Ruins
Judith Audin & translated by Oliver Waine
- 28 September 2018
Urban ruins represent a marginal subject of research within the field of Chinese studies, and yet are a precious...
From the Field
The Leaderless Urban Social Movement as Problem and Solution
Caio Teixeira
- 25 September 2018
Today, with urban uprisings driven by leaderless social movements, the future of the would-be progressive agenda...
From the Field
Rio de Janeiro: An (Inequitably) Connected City?
Francesca Pilo’ & translated by Oliver Waine
- 21 September 2018
The tangled webs of electrical wires, a symbol of the favelas, are also the sign of an electricity service that...
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Debates
Covid-19, War, and Working-Class Neighborhoods
Pierre Gilbert & translated by Oliver Waine
- 5 June 2020
The residents of France’s working-class neighborhoods, accused of exacerbating the coronavirus pandemic through...
Essays
Sentinel Territories: A New Concept for Looking at Environmental Change
David Blanchon & Frédéric Keck & François-Michel Le Tourneau & Stéphane Tonnelat & Adriana Zuniga-Teran
- 8 May 2020
In this essay, the authors develop the concept of “sentinel territories,” or environments where humans can perceive...
From the Field
Who Cleans Paris? Garbage Collectors in Their Own Words
Coline Ferrant & Marie Mourad & translated by Oliver Waine
- 21 June 2019
Who are Paris’s garbage collectors? Coline Ferrant and Marie Mourad highlight the diverse working conditions covered...
From the Field
Moving Inside City Limits: The Urban Mobility of Undocumented Youth
Stephen P. Ruszczyk
- 4 June 2019
The urban context and public transportation shape how undocumented youths move within cities. In a comparison of...
Interviews
Teaching Art and the History of Tattoos at Rikers Island: An Interview with Tamara...
Lisa Jean Moore
- 22 January 2019
An interview with Tamara Santibanez, who teaches art and the cultural and social history of tattoos to youth...
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...
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