Interviews

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Can Universities Learn to Leave Behind Air Travel?

Tamara Ben Ari & Parke Wilde - 22 October 2024

At a time when global research is showing that aviation is a carbon-intensive form of transport whose growth...

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Blueprints of Hope: How Architects Shape a Brighter Future

Nasser Golzari & Yara Sharif - 15 October 2024

In a conversation centered around the ongoing injustices in Palestine, particularly in Gaza, and the need for...

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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...

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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....

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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....

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“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...

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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:...

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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,...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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“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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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“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...

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