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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
Popular housing is a common trait of Middle-Eastern cities inhabited by migrants and refugees. A recent publication...
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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 its...
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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...
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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...
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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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Intercommunality, or the broken promises of local democracy
Stéphane Cadiou & translated by Oliver Waine
- 16 January 2013
As a new territorial reform is set to be enacted in France, what lessons can be learned from past reforms? In La...
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De-Westernising Urban Theory
Armelle Choplin & translated by Oliver Waine
- 5 December 2012
Three recent publications share a common aim: to move beyond the dichotomies of Western vs Third-World cities,...
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Marne-la-Vallée: from new town to true town?
Laurent Cailly & translated by Oliver Waine
- 31 October 2012
The redefinition of relations between a city’s centre and its outskirts is often described as the rise of a...
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History of Modern Architecture Revisited
Karla Britton
- 3 October 2012
The latest work by Jean-Louis Cohen is an original contribution to the history of modern architecture. His fresh...
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The new spaces of consumption
Andrea Mubi Brighenti
- 30 May 2012
Recent retail spaces are giving a new shape to our everyday environment. Kärrholm proposes new concepts to better...
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From home to the workplace: “Mad Men” or the irresistible rise of women
Nicole Rudolph
- 14 March 2012
Mad Men is often viewed as the ultimate sexist TV series. Through an analysis of the behavior of men and women at...
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Jerusalem: a history of water
Aude Signoles & translated by Oliver Waine
- 29 February 2012
The history of the Holy City is not just one of religious and national conflict. It is also a history of water, a...
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Barcelona: local mobilisation or global desperation?
Charlotte Vorms & translated by Oliver Waine
- 8 February 2012
What is the history behind today’s protest movements involving the occupation of urban public spaces? In the film...
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The history of social housing revisited
Christine Mengin & translated by Oliver Waine
- 30 November 2011
Since the end of the 19th century, how have residents’ wishes been taken into account by the public authorities...
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The Triumph of Density and the Agony of Sprawl
Richard E. Ocejo
- 23 November 2011
The city is more and more often hailed as the paradigmatic form of a new sustainable development, both economic and...
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What future for periurban communities: clubbisation or differentiated social dynamics?
Violaine Girard & translated by Oliver Waine
- 16 November 2011
In La ville émiettée, Éric Charmes describes the phenomenon of “clubbisation” in towns and villages in the outer...
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Post-2006 reconstruction in Lebanon: a laboratory for new urban planning practices
Éric Verdeil & translated by Eric Rosencrantz
- 5 October 2011
Modes of urban planning often develop at an accelerated pace during periods of reconstruction. Lebanon in the...
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City Words: An Invitation to Travel
Yves Grafmeyer
- 13 July 2011
L’aventure des mots de la ville (The Adventure of City Words Through Time, Languages, Societies), tells the story of...
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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...
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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...
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Snowbirds’ Gift Economy in the Arizona Desert
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Each year, 200,000 retired people spend the winter in and around the small town of Quartzsite, Arizona, in the...
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