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Interviews

“There Is No Excused Absence in Prison”

Tanisha Cannon & Dylan O’Donoghue - 19 July 2024

More than 150 years after the passage of the 13th Amendment, the fight to abolish forced labor in the United States continues. In this interview, Dylan O’Donoghue talks with Tanisha Cannon, organizer and managing director of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, about her work campaigning for a California state constitutional amendment that would abolish slavery in prisons.

From the Field

Tactical Cycling Urbanism and the Health Crisis

Laurent Chapelon & Sandrine Depeau & Benoît Feildel & Adrien Lammoglia & Maëlle Lucas & Nathalie Ortar & Adrien Poisson - 5 July 2024
During the Covid-19 health crisis, cyclist numbers increased significantly in urban areas. Public authorities...
From the Field

Russia’s “Authoritarian Modernization” Through Urbanization: What Lessons Can Be Learned from New Moscow?

Vladimir Pawlotsky & translated by Oliver Waine - 28 June 2024
Can the recent New Moscow urban development project shed light on the political, economic and demographic issues of...
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Summer Reading 2024

The Editorial Board - 23 July
The Editorial Board is now on summer break and will be posting new articles again in September. We’ve curated a selection of articles published over the 2023/2024 academic year for summer reading. The articles below engage with a broad range of topics: resistance to “fifteen-minute cities” in England; police...
Essays

Paris and the Triangle Tower, or a Half-Century of High-Rise Debate

Julie Gimbal & translated by Oliver Waine - 21 June 2024
The introduction of a bioclimatic local planning scheme in Paris has put the brakes on high-rise projects in the...
Essays

The Attractiveness Myth

Michel Grossetti & translated by Oliver Waine - 11 June 2024
Drawing on more than a decade of research, Michel Grossetti debunks theories suggesting that cities have the means...
Debates

The French Exception on the European Migration Scene

Speranta Dumitru & Ettore Recchi - 4 June 2024
The notion of mass migration to France is regularly mobilized in the country’s European election campaigns. Using...
From the Field

The Struggle to Preserve Hanlan’s Point Beach as Queer Social Infrastructure

Ahmed Allahwala - 28 May 2024
The march of neoliberal urbanism poses grave threats to nature and the people that use it. In this article, Ahmed...
From the Field

The Paris of Yesteryear: A Photographic Inventory

Pauline Rossi & translated by Oliver Waine - 14 May 2024
The Commission du Vieux Paris has kept meticulous records of urban transformations, with its own perception of what...
Essays

On a Road to Nowhere? Military Urbanism and the Architecture of Segregation

Tim Cunningham - 3 May 2024
Comparing the experiences of Belfast, Northern Ireland, with the United States, Tim Cunningham shows how physical...
From the Field

Working-Class Ecology Versus Olympic Urbanism

Flaminia Paddeu & translated by Oliver Waine - 19 April 2024
In Aubervilliers, north of Paris, swathes of a community garden—the Jardins Ouvriers des Vertus—have been destroyed...
Reviews

Reflecting on the New York Commune at 20 Years

Daphne Lundi - 9 April 2024
What happened in the decades after the Hunts Point Insurrection? M. E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi use speculative...
From the Field

How Cities Function Ecologically: The Importance of Urban Soils

Sophie Joimel & Baptiste Grard & Laure Vieublé Gonod & Claire Chenu & translated by Oliver Waine - 2 April 2024
What do we know about the diversity of urban soils? Ecologists and soil scientists show that a detailed study of...
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Series

Summer Reading 2024
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

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...

Other resources online

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...

Mobile Lives Forum
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...

Mobile Lives Forum
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

Mobile Lives Forum
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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