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Landlord Tech in Covid‑19 Times
Erin McElroy & Wonyoung So
- 30 March 2021
Covid‑19 has expanded trends in surveillance technology deployed by landlords and property managers—resulting in...
From the Field
Algeria’s
Hirak
: When a Social Movement Puts Citizenship Under the Microscope
Islam Amine Derradji & Amel Gherbi & translated by Oliver Waine
- 26 March 2021
The popular mobilization that rose up in Algeria in 2019 was not only a revolt against living conditions that had...
From the Field
Understanding Why Homeless People Refuse Emergency Accommodation
Édouard Gardella & translated by Oliver Waine
- 9 March 2021
The refusal of emergency accommodation by many homeless people expresses the intensity of their attachment to the...
From the Field
Industrial Wasteland and the Commons
Jules Desgoutte & translated by Oliver Waine
- 26 February 2021
Long considered places of experimentation, sharing and freedom, friches culturelles, or temporary cultural spaces,...
From the Field
Montreal’s Alleyways: A Laboratory for Democratic Life
Joëlle Zask & translated by Oliver Waine
- 12 February 2021
The participation of a city’s inhabitants in democratic life begins with forms of everyday sociability and...
From the Field
The Asylum Story: Narrative Capital and International Protection
Emily Reid
- 2 February 2021
Obtaining international protection relies upon an ability to successfully navigate the host country’s asylum regime....
From the Field
Electoral Organizing During a Pandemic: Lessons from Wisconsin
Aaron Shapiro
- 12 January 2021
The global Covid‑19 pandemic has radically altered social and political practices. Aaron Shapiro reflects on the...
From the Field
Manifested Stories
Rebecca Blythe Pryor
- 5 January 2021
Rebecca Pryor traces the history of the revitalization of the Bronx River, illustrating an alternative narrative to...
From the Field
Post-Election Dispatches from Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
Jamie Longazel
- 22 December 2020
Jamie Longazel reflects on organizing for the 2020 general election in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. A longtime...
From the Field
Cleaning and Care Worker Cooperatives in NYC: Empowerment Through Collectivization of Labor
Nora Komposch
- 8 December 2020
Worker cooperatives have been shown to reduce precariousness and economic exclusion of marginalized groups....
From the Field
The Financialization of Rent-Regulated Housing in New York City after Rent Reform
Benjamin F. Teresa
- 4 December 2020
In New York City, rent-controlled housing stock has been progressively deregulated over the last three decades, to...
From the Field
The Brazilian Experience of Financialization Through Urban Redevelopment: The Case of “Urban Operations”
Laisa Eleonora Marostica Stroher
- 1 December 2020
Laisa Stroher examines the history of large-scale urban regeneration projects in Brazil and shows how a policy...
From the Field
Fragile Financialization: The Struggle for Power and Control in Indian Real-Estate Investment
Llerena Guiu Searle
- 27 November 2020
How does the financialization of real estate—a global phenomenon—affect urban development in India? In this...
From the Field
Sale of the Century: Chicago’s Infrastructure Deals and the Privatization State
Philip Ashton & Marc Doussard & Rachel Weber
- 24 November 2020
Since 2004, the City of Chicago has been engaged in a new wave of infrastructure privatizations, selling...
From the Field
The Contestations and Contradictions of the New York City Housing Authority’s Plan for Mixed-Income Redevelopment
Valerie E. Stahl
- 10 November 2020
The New York City Housing Authority, faced with a capital shortfall of nearly $40 billion, is pursuing a series of...
From the Field
Photographing Prison
Andrea Eichenberger & Carole Gayet-Viaud & Valérie Icard & translated by Oliver Waine
- 2 October 2020
The photographs presented here were taken by Andrea Eichenberger at the former men’s and women’s prison in Beauvais,...
From the Field
Social Housing in Postcolonial Contexts
Clémence Léobal & translated by Oliver Waine
- 25 September 2020
What happens when national social-housing policies developed in mainland France are transposed in overseas...
From the Field
#IStayCamp
. Health Conditions, Food Deprivation and Solidarity Problems in the First Days of Lockdown in the Roma Villages of Rome
Carlo Stasolla & Tommaso Vitale
- 28 April 2020
Activist research in formal settlements of emergency housing in Rome during the Covid‑19 lockdown reveals how such...
From the Field
How the Youth of the
Banlieues
See the
Gilets Jaunes
Ahmed & Baptiste & Hachimia & Jeremy & Karima & Lisa-Marie & Louiza & Thibaut & translated by Oliver Waine
- 24 April 2020
Do the “Yellow Vests” and the youth of France’s banlieues share a common vision of the inequalities and discrimination...
From the Field
When Memory is Confined: Politics of Commemoration on Avenida 26, Bogotá
Violante Torre
- 7 April 2020
After more than five decades of conflict, the Colombian capital, Bogotá, is undergoing processes not just of...
From the Field
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...
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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...
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...
Debates
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...
Reviews
The Dangers of Security
Médéric Martin-Mazé & translated by Oliver Waine
- 22 May 2015
In Against Security, Harvey Molotch highlights – through various examples, including the New York subway, airports,...
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The Trinity of Walking, Cycling and Public Transportation Must Be...
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