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Black Power and Black Self-Determination in a New Time and New Spaces
James DeFilippis & Akira Drake Rodriguez
- 31 October 2023
Black Power organizing in cities in the United States and around the world has a long history. This special series...
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Urban Wastes, Present and Future
Lily Baum Pollans
- 29 April 2022
Lily Pollans guest-edits this series for Metropolitics that focuses on the various ways in which waste is part of...
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New York Dossier: The Food Industry Faces the Covid‑19 Pandemic
Sharon Zukin
- 14 September 2021
Metropolitics is pleased to present the second dossier coordinated by faculty and students in the PhD program in...
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Cities in the Age of Financialization
Martine Drozdz & Antoine Guironnet & Ludovic Halbert & translated by James Christopher Mizes & Oliver Waine
- 18 June 2021
Over the past four decades, the financialization of capitalism has transformed economies, societies, and urban...
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Contemporary Housing Struggles: Crises, Activism, and Critical Research
Joshua Akers
- 12 March 2021
In this series, Metropolitics focuses on the intersection of organizing, technology, politics, and policy in urban...
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New York Tech Dossier: The Dark Side of New York’s Tech Economy
Sharon Zukin
- 7 January 2020
Metropolitics is pleased to present the first of a series of dossiers coordinated by faculty and students in the...
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Progressive Mayors and Urban Social Movements
James DeFilippis & John Mollenkopf & Akira Drake Rodriguez
- 11 September 2018
The challenges of implementing progressive urban agendas are both structural and political in nature. This series...
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Land Rights in the Urban Global South
Armelle Choplin & Éric Denis & translated by Oliver Waine
- 18 May 2018
In choosing to focus on the Global South, Metropolitics turns its attention to a key aspect of contemporary cities:...
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Climate Change and Social Change
Gregory Smithsimon
- 3 April 2018
Cities are home to more than half the world’s population and the source of most global CO2 emissions—and yet often...
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Shrinking Cities
Vincent Béal & Anaïs Collet & James DeFilippis & Richard E. Ocejo & Max Rousseau
- 27 March 2017
Brexit in the United Kingdom, the election of Donald Trump in the United States, the rise of extreme-right populist...
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The Resurgence of Towers in European Cities
Manuel Appert & translated by Oliver Waine
- 19 February 2016
After a fallow period during which very few towers were built (1980–2000), European cities are currently...
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Children in the City
Carole Gayet-Viaud & Clément Rivière & Philippe Simay
- 2 October 2015
After a long period of neglect, the field of urban studies in France is showing a marked revival of interest in...
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The Renewed Relevance of Urban-Planning Models?
Claire Carriou & Olivier Ratouis & translated by Oliver Waine
- 30 June 2015
While the register of the model has complemented urban planning ever since the concept emerged, such models have...
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Nature in the City
Lise Bourdeau-Lepage & translated by Oliver Waine
- 3 November 2014
While nature and the city have historically been opposing concepts, attitudes today are different: we now actively...
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Local elections as seen by the social sciences
Emmanuel Bellanger & Fabien Desage & Jean Rivière & translated by Oliver Waine
- 11 June 2014
Municipal election campaigns are key moments in the cycle of local politics. The authors of the series of articles...
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Urban Studies in France
Anaïs Collet & Philippe Simay & translated by Oliver Waine
- 11 September 2013
Can French research into cities and urban territories truly be considered “urban studies”, in the cross-disciplinary...
Series
Mutual Housing
Claire Carriou & Olivier Ratouis & Agnès Sander (†) & translated by Oliver Waine
- 17 October 2012
Over the last decade in France and Europe, in a context where access to housing has become increasingly complex for...
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How the Algerian War shaped French cities
Pierre Gilbert & Charlotte Vorms & translated by Oliver Waine
- 21 March 2012
The Algerian War of Independence, which coincided with a turning point in France’s urban history, had a significant...
Series
New Orleans: The Post-Katrina Years
Jean Samuel Bordreuil & Stéphane Tonnelat
- 25 May 2011
How to keep track of a city’s recovery after an environmental catastrophe? Metropolitics sheds light on some of the...
Series
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
Climate Change and Social Change
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...
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...
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...
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Cycles of Violence: Analysing Media Discourse in the Newspaper...
Mobile Lives Forum
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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The city of Lahti in Finland was the first to experiment with a carbon-trading scheme among its inhabitants to...
Is Rationing Carbon for Travel a Fair, Efficient, and Realistic...
Mobile Lives Forum
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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Strasbourg is the leading city for cycling in France and a constant source of inspiration for all French cities...
The Trinity of Walking, Cycling and Public Transportation Must Be...
Mobile Lives Forum
While emissions from the transportation sector remain at a very high level, all hopes are currently pinned on the...
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