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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,...

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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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Ethnic discrimination in social housing

François Bonnet & translated by Oliver Waine - 12 March 2014

Valérie Sala Pala has investigated the extent to which ethnic criteria come into play in the allocation of social...

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Gentrification in Paris: the elite versus the people?

Colin Giraud & translated by Oliver Waine - 29 January 2014

Anne Clerval’s latest work on the gentrification of Paris, published in September 2013, caused quite a sensation in...

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Social housing in New York

François Bonnet & translated by Oliver Waine - 22 January 2014

Is high-rise public housing doomed to demolition? A book and article by historian Nicholas Dagen Bloom, focusing on...

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The intricacies of popular housing in the Middle East

Mona Fawaz - 18 December 2013

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Henri Lefebvre for architects

Grégory Busquet & translated by Oliver Waine - 11 December 2013

Although Henri Lefebvre is well known for introducing the concept of “the right to the city”, his work is little used...

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The March for Equality and Against Racism: the “Migrants’ May 1968”?

Muriel Cohen & translated by Oliver Waine - 4 December 2013

Abdellali Hajjat looks back at the event that went down in history as the “Marche des Beurs” (“Arabs’ March”), and...

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Catholics, sociologists and the city

Frédéric Dejean & translated by Oliver Waine - 27 November 2013

Far removed from the habitual image of a Church incapable of dealing with the de-Christianisation that has...

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Migration and globalization: a tragic tale

Olivier Thomas & translated by Oliver Waine - 30 October 2013

At a time when flows of capital, goods and information are increasing, more and more material, ideological and...

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Beirut: the city beneath the surface

Céline Barrère & translated by Oliver Waine - 23 October 2013

The geographer Éric Verdeil distances himself from the dominant analyses that constantly depict Beirut as a “city at...

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The role of proximities in improving territorial governance

Lise Bourdeau-Lepage & translated by Oliver Waine - 10 July 2013

What can be done to improve territorial governance? André Torre and Jean-Eudes Beuret emphasise the role of proximity...

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La Défense: the Planning and Politics of a Global Business District

Matthew Wendeln - 26 June 2013

La Défense, Europe’s largest business district, is the outcome of a singular mix of state planning, architectural...

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Haussmann: from modernity to revolution

Jean-Marie Huriot & translated by Oliver Waine - 15 May 2013

Jean-Marie Huriot shows how the latest work by geographer David Harvey to be translated into French sheds new light...

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Beirut: the new front lines of urban research

Éric Verdeil & translated by Oliver Waine - 6 May 2013

In Beirut, the extremely rapid transformations of both urban spaces and urban policy raise a number of questions and...

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Urban Ethnography: A Handbook

Daniel Cefaï & translated by Oliver Waine - 3 April 2013

Since the 1980s, the field of ethnography has enjoyed a return to favour in the social sciences. Richard E. Ocejo’s...

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Free public transport: from social experiment to political alternative?

Maxime Huré & translated by Oliver Waine - 20 March 2013

In a work combining storytelling and reflection, a local councillor and a philosopher analyse the policy of free...

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Algerians and the police: colonial continuities and the weight of war

Françoise de Barros & translated by Oliver Waine - 13 March 2013

How can the treatment suffered by Algerians at the hands of the Paris police in the mid‑20th century be explained?...

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The politics of municipal mergers (and demergers) in Montreal

Richard Harris - 6 March 2013

In the late 1990s, the province of Quebec reacted to metropolitan growth in Montreal by merging the city with 27 of...

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A Regionalist Panorama for Architecture and Beyond

Karla Britton - 30 January 2013

Can architecture preserve local identities in a globalizing world? In their new book, Liane Lefaivre and Alexander...

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