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Summer/Fall Reading 2025
The Editorial Board
- 1 August 2025
The Editorial Board will be posting new articles again from early September. In the meantime, members of the...
Metropolitics
Summer Reading 2024
The Editorial Board
- 23 July 2024
The Editorial Board is now on summer break and will be posting new articles again in September. We’ve curated a...
Metropolitics
Summer Reading 2023
The Editorial Board
- 18 July 2023
The Editorial Board is now on summer break and will be posting new articles again starting on Tuesday, September 5....
Metropolitics
Summer Reading 2022
The Editorial Board
- 22 July 2022
The Editorial Board is now on summer break and will be posting new articles again starting on Tuesday, September 6,...
Metropolitics
Summer Reading 2021
The Editorial Board
- 20 July 2021
The Editorial Board is now on summer break and will be posting new articles again from Tuesday, September 7, 2021....
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Metropolitics
Summer Writing Program
The Editorial Board
- 19 April 2021
ABOUT | WORKSHOP | TIMELINE | APPLY | CONTACT In this remote writing workshop, to be held during June 2021,...
Metropolitics
Summer Reading 2020
The Editorial Board
- 20 July 2020
The Editorial Board is currently on summer break, but will be posting new articles again starting on Tuesday,...
Metropolitics
Summer Reading 2019
The Editorial Board
- 17 July 2019
The Editorial Board is now on summer break and will be posting new articles again starting on Tuesday, September 10....
Metropolitics
Navigating the City–State Divide: What’s Next for Progressive Elected Officials?
The Editorial Board
- 5 February 2019
Following on from our series on Progressive Mayors and Urban Social Movements, Metropolitics and the Urban Democracy...
Metropolitics
Panel Discussion Event (Wednesday, January 30): “Navigating the City–State Divide: What’s Next for Progressive Elected Officials?”
The Editorial Board
- 7 January 2019
Metropolitics, together with its partner the Urban Democracy Lab at New York University, invites you to a discussion...
Metropolitics
Summer Reading 2018
The Editorial Board
- 31 July 2018
The Editorial Board is now on summer break, and will be posting new articles again starting on Tuesday, September 11....
Metropolitics
To our French colleagues and readers
The Editorial Board
- 27 July 2016
We stand in with you in solidarity and grief in the aftermath of the recent attacks in Nice and...
Metropolitics
Open Letter Condemning the Purge of Academic Institutions in Turkey
The Editorial Board
- 22 July 2016
The editorial board of Metropolitics invites its readers to join it in its support of the following petition (link...
Metropolitics
Summer Wanderings 2012
The Editorial Board
- 6 July 2012
Metropolitics has packed its bags for the summer! Publications will resume on 12 September. In the meantime, why not...
Metropolitics
Summer Break 2011
The Editorial Board
- 20 July 2011
Metropolitics is on vacation. Publications will resume on September 12th. In the meantime, we propose a selection of...
Metropolitics
Editorial
La rédaction
- 26 November 2010
Metropolitics.eu is designed to foster encounters and discussion among all interested in urban, architectural and...
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Horizons in the Housing Struggle
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
Featured
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 New...
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 patrol...
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...
Other resources online
“Our hallway’s big enough to play football in!” The council housing...
The Guardian
Boasting two-sink kitchens, Tower Court in north London is tailored for the Haredi Jewish community – but its...
Saudi Arabia: How is Mobility Being Transformed in the Oil Kingdom?
Mobile Lives Forum
04 April 2025, by Aniss Mouad Mezoued The launch of the Riyadh metro in late November 2024 once again highlighted...
Transport for Suburbia: Beyond the Automobile Age (Paul Mees)
Mobile Lives Forum
27 March 2025, by Javier Caletrío Can suburbia avoid car dependence? Can low-density areas enjoy first-rate public...
Geopolitics and Electric Vehicles: The Rise of Climate Protectionism
Mobile Lives Forum
17 February 2025, by Xabier Gangoiti and Graham Parkhurst The electric vehicle (EV) revolution is not just a...
One Way to Fight Rising Food Prices: Public Grocery Stores
The New Republic
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has proposed opening government-owned grocery stores as a solution to...
The Quiet Power of Car-Free Neighborhoods
CityLab
Restricting or banning vehicles in congested city centers pays off with cleaner air and safer streets. We need to...
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