Christina Mitrakos

Christina Mitrakos was born in New York City. She has been living in Paris for seven years, working as a translator and a history and geography teacher in a bilingual international school.

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...
Essays

The Wrecker’s Pick. The Rationales and Hidden Agendas of Urban Renewal in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Alain Faure & translated by Christina Mitrakos - 7 June 2016
Alain Faure, a scholar of the social history of cities, puts urban renewal into perspective. He questions the...
From the Field

How Children Cope When Home is a Hotel

Erwan Le Méner & translated by Christina Mitrakos - 5 February 2016
Emergency housing in social hotels is affecting a growing number of families in the Paris region. How does this...
From the Field

Social Diversity in Gentrified Neighborhoods: Child’s Play?

Jean-Yves Authier & Sonia Lehman-Frisch & translated by Christina Mitrakos - 4 December 2015
How do children develop relationships? Do they meet children from socio-economic backgrounds other than their own?...
Debates

Suburbanization as a Project

Martin Vanier & translated by Christina Mitrakos - 6 April 2011
Experts and policies fail to recognize the contradictions that urban sprawl creates and rarely go beyond...
Debates

Homosexual City, Homophobic Banlieue?

Éric Fassin & translated by Christina Mitrakos - 9 March 2011
Is homophobia prevalent in social housing projects? Is sexual orientation the new divide between civilizations? Éric...
Debates

Why Build New Housing?

Jean-Claude Driant & translated by Christina Mitrakos - 28 January 2011
Can building more houses solve the housing problem? Jean-Claude Driant shows that a simple quantitative approach...
Debates

“Roma Villages” or the Reinvention of Cités de Transit

Olivier Legros & translated by Christina Mitrakos - 3 January 2011
In France, many Bulgarian and Romanian Roma migrants are being deported back to their home country. Certain...
Debates

The Virtues and Vices of the Growth of Homeownership

Jean-Claude Driant & translated by Christina Mitrakos - 24 November 2010
Why is it necessary to become a homeowner? Jean-Claude Driant examines the arguments for and against policies that...

En français

Terrains

Battre en retraite après Sandy : le quartier d’Ocean Breeze à Staten Island

Liz Koslov & translated by Christina Mitrakos - 24 November 2014
Le 29 octobre 2012, quand l’ouragan Sandy a ravagé la côte est des États-Unis, Staten Island, un district de la ville...

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