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Horizons in the Housing Struggle

Jaime Jover & Kristen Hackett - 14 February 2025

We are living through a polycrisis, a multidimensional, interlinked series of capitalism’s structural problems...

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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 of...

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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 the...

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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 space....

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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 PhD...

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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 experiencing...

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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...

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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...

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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...

Horizons in the Housing Struggle

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

Shrinking Cities

The Resurgence of Towers in European Cities

Children in the City

The Renewed Relevance of Urban-Planning Models?

Nature in the City

Local elections as seen by the social sciences

Urban Studies in France

Mutual Housing

How the Algerian War shaped French cities

New Orleans: The Post-Katrina Years

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