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Why School Securitization Fails. Lessons from Morrill and Musheno’s Navigating Conflict

Andrés Besserer Rayas - 8 October 2019

Navigating Conflict describes how pupils are able to address conflicts on their own, and how school securitization...

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Crisis Makes Heroes: Affordable Housing in New York City During and After a “Decade of Fire”

Susan Saegert - 2 July 2019

Susan Saegert discusses the memoirs of two hard-fighting Bronx housing advocates, active at a particularly turbulent...

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Whose Bronx?: Decade of Fire Looks Back at a Complicated History of Neighborhood Abandonment and the Rise of Community Control in the South Bronx

Aly Hassell - 2 July 2019

Decade of Fire, a new documentary film by lifelong South Bronx resident and first-time filmmaker Vivian Vázquez...

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Special Feature: Whose Bronx?

Aly Hassell & Susan Saegert - 2 July 2019

As New York City’s overheated real-estate market begins to affect the Bronx, researchers and memoirists are rejecting...

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Incarceration, Human Rights, and Health: Life and Death in Rikers Island

Tawana Anthony - 25 June 2019

Tawana Anthony applauds Homer Venters’ Life and Death in Rikers Island for exposing the institutional indifference to...

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Planning Metropolitan Australia

Margot Abord de Chatillon - 9 April 2019

In Planning Metropolitan Australia, Stephen Hamnett and Robert Freestone shed welcome light on the way Australia’s...

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Reclaiming the “Right to the City” Through Participatory Budgeting

Tyler James Olsen - 19 February 2019

Participatory budgeting is growing in many cities around the world. Can it become a tool for urban dwellers to...

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Political Conservatism and the Working Classes in France

David Gouard & translated by Oliver Waine - 25 January 2019

In her latest book, Le Vote FN au village (“The National Front Vote in the Village”), sociologist Violaine Girard...

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Recyclable City or Disposable City? A Century of Urban Waste in Naples

Sabine Bognon & translated by Oliver Waine - 9 November 2018

Inspired by the study of living ecosystems, research into the notion of urban metabolism seeks to break with the...

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Photographing the Slums of 1900s Berlin

Danièle Voldman & translated by Oliver Waine - 14 September 2018

At the turn of the 20th century, the dramatically poor conditions of urban working-class housing was a cause of major...

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Miscounting Americans Correctly: Post-Truth as a Guide to Race and the US Census

Gregory Smithsimon - 12 June 2018

Paul Schor’s book Counting Americans demonstrates that, in the hands of the US Census Bureau, the concept of race has...

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Nature’s Worth: Using Human Markets to Value Ecosystems’ Contributions

Anna Krol & Lisa Jean Moore - 20 February 2018

Mattijs van Maasakkers’ The Creation of Markets for Ecosystem Services in the United States: The Challenge of Trading...

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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...

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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 cities....

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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...

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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 that...

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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 distinction...

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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...

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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...

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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 a...

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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 have...

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“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...

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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 Paris....

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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...

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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? In...

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