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New York’s Soul for Sale: Raising the Rent on Lunch Counters and Counterculture
Benjamin Terrall
- 13 February 2018
Vanishing New York is Jeremiah Moss’s loving chronicle of the neighborhoods, characters, bars, and corner...
Reviews
Making Their Own History: Squatters on Manhattan’s Lower East Side
Benjamin H. Shepard
- 19 December 2017
During the 1970s, when Manhattan’s Lower East Side was full of derelict real estate, activists laid claim to...
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Trends Global, Impact Local
John Shapiro
- 23 May 2017
Global wealth, immigration and capital flow have profoundly influenced local retail districts in world-class...
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Between Green Paris and Immigrant Paris: The Politics of the Jardins d’Éole
Maura McGee
- 21 March 2017
As leaders in global cities reimagine and rebuild their metropolises as green capitals of the future, who has the...
Reviews
Immigrants and Transnational Citizenship
Fernando Aquino
- 14 February 2017
In spite of the loud fear-mongering about immigration and borders in the US and Europe, sociologists have found...
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Citadels, Cores, and Confetti: Urban Festivals in the New Political Economy of the Music Industry
Johan Jansson
- 5 January 2017
How have changes in the music industry—especially regarding the way music is produced and consumed today—affected...
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Closed Quarters
William Helmreich
- 13 December 2016
As we contemplate an era marked by official hostility to fair-housing laws, we would do well to heed the...
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Restless Cities
Laura Wolf-Powers
- 25 October 2016
The world of downtown real-estate development seems to have a life of its own, independent of demand for space and...
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...
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Evictions and Poverty
Hilary Botein
- 28 June 2016
Matthew Desmond’s Evicted has drawn much-needed attention to the under-studied problem of unsubsidized rental...
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On Being Black and Poor in a Small City
Peter Moskos
- 24 May 2016
No Way Out, Waverly Duck’s recent examination of how African Americans in an impoverished small city construct a...
Reviews
The Intimate Politics of Public Housing’s Demise
Dory Thrasher
- 12 April 2016
Many ethnographies have documented the physical and institutional fragility of America’s public housing. Writing in...
Reviews
Neighborhood Change and the Right to the City
Adam Tanaka
- 29 March 2016
New York City’s Stuyvesant Town is the largest housing development in Manhattan, and also one of the most...
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Dawn of the Indebted: Zombie Neoliberalism Hits the Big Screen
Desiree Fields & Tom Gillespie
- 8 March 2016
As the tremors of the 2008 crumbling US housing market were felt around the world, even the most astute couldn’t...
Reviews
“Grands Ensembles”: Retracing a History of Rejection
Stéphane Füzesséry & translated by Oliver Waine
- 15 January 2016
From its very beginnings, the urban model of the “grand ensemble” – the large-scale high-rise housing estate – has...
Reviews
Beyond “planetary urbanization”: recasting contemporary urban research
Matthieu Giroud (†) & translated by Oliver Waine
- 27 November 2015
We were profoundly shocked to learn of the death of Matthieu Giroud, a victim of the attacks of 13 November in...
Reviews
Megacities and how to govern them: rethinking urban development in terms of infrastructure networks
Éric Verdeil & translated by Oliver Waine
- 25 September 2015
Are colossal megalopolises like Shanghai or Mumbai uncontrollable? This collective work shows that nothing could be...
Reviews
Jerusalem: divisive urban planning at the heart of the Holy City
Vincent Lemire & translated by Oliver Waine
- 19 June 2015
How is the Israeli–Palestinian conflict reflected in the way the city of Jerusalem has been planned and developed?...
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Good neighbours? Homeless people as seen by those who live alongside them
Marine Maurin & translated by Oliver Waine
- 5 June 2015
Prejudices regarding the poorest in society die hard. Does living in proximity to some of these populations help...
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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,...
Reviews
All the Gayborhoods are White
Marcus Anthony Hunter
- 19 May 2015
The urban “gayborhood,” the place where gay men and women found refuge for their sexuality from bigotry, is gradually...
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Cities transformed by hygienism: 100 years of local innovation
Sabine Barles & translated by Oliver Waine
- 27 March 2015
Hygiene is a “battle”, and the “hygienist revolution” of the 19th and early 20th centuries transformed our urban...
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Northern Mafias: the territorial spread of organised crime in Italy
Fabrizio Maccaglia & translated by Oliver Waine
- 26 February 2015
The presence of Mafia organisations outside the Mezzogiorno, long downplayed by the Italian public authorities, has...
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Constructing Crises
Marla Nelson
- 23 February 2015
A new book by Kevin Fox Gotham and Miriam Greenberg foregrounds the disturbing parallels between two seemingly...
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The “ordinary” Italian suburbs: exploring the apartment buildings of the middle classes
Thomas Pfirsch & translated by Oliver Waine
- 11 December 2014
Through the detailed histories of 23 apartment buildings and their inhabitants, a team of historians and architects...
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Detroit: Origins of the Urban Crisis Revisited
Andrew Newman
- 24 November 2014
The recent reprint of Sugrue’s classic history of Detroit’s urban crisis highlights the roots of the city’s present...
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Entry into the Anthropocene
André Micoud & translated by Oliver Waine
- 20 November 2014
Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, backed up by an impressive amount of data, trace the history of our...
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How journalists see “the suburbs”: lifting the veil on a cliché
Julie Sedel & translated by Oliver Waine
- 10 September 2014
“La banlieue”: in France, few terms convey such a clear and constant image: high-rise social housing, young men “of...
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The misunderstandings of European democracy
Philippe Aldrin & translated by Oliver Waine
- 28 May 2014
Though an economic giant, the European Union still appears to be something of a political dwarf. Yet a political...
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The importance of the neighborhood in Chicago and elsewhere
Eliza Benites-Gambirazio
- 19 March 2014
The latest work by Robert Sampson, released to positive reviews, shows the sustainable effects of internal social...
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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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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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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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As part of France’s Mission on the Future of the Economic Model of Public Transportation, commissioned by the French...
Strasbourg, An Example of a Cycling City
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The Trinity of Walking, Cycling and Public Transportation Must Be...
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