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“There Is No Excused Absence in Prison”
Tanisha Cannon & Dylan O’Donoghue
- 19 July 2024
More than 150 years after the passage of the 13th Amendment, the fight to abolish forced labor in the United States...
Interviews
Education Myths, Black Self-Determination, and University Accountability to the City
Christopher R. Rogers & Laura Wolf-Powers
- 8 March 2024
Laura Wolf-Powers interviews scholar and community organizer Chris Rogers about his extensive work in Philadelphia....
Interviews
Migration and Inequalities: The Importance of Social Class
Garance Clément & Claire Gellereau & Hélène Steinmetz & Anne-Catherine Wagner & translated by Oliver Waine
- 19 November 2021
Since the 1990s, Anne-Catherine Wagner’s research has focused on migrants from the most affluent classes in society....
Interviews
“Every Eviction is an Act of Violence”
Tara Raghuveer & Joshua Akers
- 23 March 2021
Josh Akers interviews researcher, organizer, and activist Tara Raghuveer about her work with KC Tenants in Kansas...
Interviews
Fighting for Housing Justice: An Interview with Two Youth Organizers in Curtis Bay, Baltimore
Nicole Fabricant & Carlos Sanchez & Terriq Thompson
- 16 March 2021
Two Baltimore youth organizers discuss the importance of community land trusts, for housing and beyond. Series:...
Interviews
15 Years of Researching Cities and Pandemics
S. Harris Ali & Creighton Connolly & Roger Keil
- 9 February 2021
Beginning in 2006 with pioneering work on responses to the SARS crisis in global cities (and in particular Toronto,...
Interviews
Political Organizing Beyond the Election: An Interview with Rosa Saavedra in North Carolina
Rosa Saavedra & Edwin Mayorga
- 2 November 2020
Edwin Mayorga interviews organizer Rosa Saavedra from North Carolina. They discuss the political landscape and...
Interviews
Electoral Organizing in North Carolina: An Interview with Tomás Garduño
Tomás Garduño & Kate Selden
- 27 October 2020
Kate Selden interviews Tomás Garduño, a social-justice organizer, about his work in Lenoir County, North Carolina,...
Interviews
In Search of Grand Paris: Pierre Mansat on the Eve of the June 2020 Municipal Elections
Magda Maaoui & Pierre Mansat
- 26 June 2020
Magda Maaoui interviews Pierre Mansat, former deputy mayor of Paris and a founding father of “le Grand Paris” (the...
Interviews
What Has Happened in Berlin Since 1989?
Thibaut de Ruyter & Olivier Gaudin & translated by Oliver Waine
- 12 June 2020
Since the fall of the Wall in November 1989, Berlin has metamorphosed into one of the world’s most popular urban...
Interviews
Reinventing Segregation in Northern California: An Interview with Alex Schafran
Alex Schafran & Darian Razdar
- 14 May 2019
Darian Razdar interviews Alex Schafran about his new book Road to Resegregation: Northern California and the...
Interviews
Global Climate Crisis and the City: An Interview with Ashley Dawson
Ashley Dawson & Maura McGee
- 3 April 2019
An interview with Ashley Dawson, professor of English at the College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center,...
Interviews
Teaching Art and the History of Tattoos at Rikers Island: An Interview with Tamara Santibanez
Lisa Jean Moore
- 22 January 2019
An interview with Tamara Santibanez, who teaches art and the cultural and social history of tattoos to youth...
Interviews
“Build a Wall”: The Wrong Solution for Our Coastal Problems. An Interview with Jennifer Mattei
Jennifer H. Mattei & Lisa Jean Moore
- 7 February 2017
Metropolitics editorial committee member and sociologist Lisa Jean Moore interviewed biologist Jennifer Mattei, an...
Interviews
Professionalisation, gentrification and welfare reform: 20 years of socio-spatial change in London
Manuel Appert & Anaïs Collet & Chris Hamnett
- 19 June 2013
The 2008 financial crisis called time on a long period of economic transformation in European cities that has seen...
Interviews
Solving the housing crisis: opening up private housing to the social sector
Lise Bourdeau-Lepage & Jean-Pierre Lévy & Nadine Roudil & translated by Oliver Waine
- 13 February 2013
Jean-Pierre Lévy has devoted much of his work to the issue of poor housing conditions. Here, for Metropolitics, he...
Interviews
Self-managed housing at the Maison du Val
Alain His & Olivier Ratouis & translated by Oliver Waine
- 12 December 2012
Alain His, co-founder of the Maison du Val in Meudon, near Paris, talks to us about this self‑managed housing...
Interviews
The Design-Politics of American Public Housing
Sandra Parvu & Lawrence J. Vale
- 4 July 2012
Lawrence J. Vale goes back to the early days of American history to discuss public housing policy in the US: he...
Interviews
Drug-consumption rooms in the city?
Laurent El Ghozi & Nadine Roudil & translated by Oliver Waine
- 4 May 2011
Following a number of experiments in Geneva and Bilbao, the question of whether supervised injection centres should...
Interviews
Towards a regional democracy?
Frédéric Dufaux & Edward W. Soja
- 9 March 2011
To achieve a better democracy, Edward Soja defends the idea that we need to change the way we think about the...
Interviews
The Geography of Financial Crisis
David Harvey & Nadine Roudil & Stéphane Tonnelat
- 22 December 2010
David Harvey is a leading figure of the marxist critique of neoliberalism. During his last stay in France, in...
Interviews
Three questions to Richard Sennett
Richard Sennett & Philippe Simay & Stéphane Tonnelat
- 15 December 2010
Richard Sennett writes about cities, labor, and culture. He teaches sociology at New York University and at the...
Interviews
“Placemaking”: a new approach to designing and managing urban public spaces
Michèle Jolé & Stéphane Tonnelat
- 23 November 2010
Based in New York City, PPS or "Project for Public Spaces" is an innovating urban planning and design company at...
Series
Black Power and Black Self-Determination in a New Time and New Spaces
Urban Wastes, Present and Future
New York Dossier: The Food Industry Faces the Covid‑19 Pandemic
Cities in the Age of Financialization
Contemporary Housing Struggles: Crises, Activism, and Critical Research
New York Tech Dossier: The Dark Side of New York’s Tech Economy
Progressive Mayors and Urban Social Movements
Land Rights in the Urban Global South
Climate Change and Social Change
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From the Field
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...
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...
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...
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Cycles of Violence: Analysing Media Discourse in the Newspaper...
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How are cyclist and pedestrian deaths depicted in newspaper reports, and how do these reports help shape...
Lahti: The First Carbon-Rationing Experiment Applied to Local...
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The city of Lahti in Finland was the first to experiment with a carbon-trading scheme among its inhabitants to...
Is Rationing Carbon for Travel a Fair, Efficient, and Realistic...
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In the wake of the pandemic, a carbon tax at Europe’s borders is now on the agenda, but a domestic version for...
Reducing Carbon-Emitting Travel: A Factor of Social Cohesion and...
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Strasbourg, An Example of a Cycling City
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Strasbourg is the leading city for cycling in France and a constant source of inspiration for all French cities...
The Trinity of Walking, Cycling and Public Transportation Must Be...
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While emissions from the transportation sector remain at a very high level, all hopes are currently pinned on the...
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