Eric Rosencrantz

Eric Rosencrantz is a freelance translator. Over the years he has translated everything from criminal law and music and art history, EU politics and François Dubet’s Injustice At Work, to documentaries about terrorists and locusts. He believes in the sustainable city.

contact: ericrosencrantz at gmail.com

Essays

Well-being in the Paris region: widening regional disparities despite overall improvement

Lise Bourdeau-Lepage & Élisabeth Tovar & translated by Eric Rosencrantz - 12 October 2011
Has the socio-spatial divide widened over the past 10 years in the Paris region? Using an original method inspired...
Reviews

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...
Debates

The Fantastical Accounts of Grand Paris

Frédéric Léonhardt & translated by Eric Rosencrantz - 28 September 2011
After four years of ongoing debate, the French government’s Grand Paris scheme has spawned a large-scale mass...
Debates

Integrating the train into the city: some thoughts from Spain

Luis Santos y Ganges & translated by Eric Rosencrantz - 21 September 2011
Are inner-city railways condemned to form boundaries or barriers within the city? Based on a critique of the...
From the Field

Making sustainability public: the bayou observation deck in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans

Stéphane Tonnelat & translated by Eric Rosencrantz - 20 June 2011
How can the residents of a flooded neighborhood in New Orleans, torn between reconstruction imperatives and...
Debates

The (mis)measurement of periurbanization

Anne Lambert & translated by Eric Rosencrantz - 11 May 2011
(Peri)urban sprawl is unanimously decried as a cause for economic, environmental and social concern. And yet...
Debates

The Wealth of Local Currencies

Sophie Donzel & translated by Eric Rosencrantz - 27 April 2011
Following up on Smaïn Laacher’s essay on Local Exchange Trading Systems (LETS), Sophie Donzel, deputy mayor of...
Debates

The Handicaps of Handicapped Housing

Catherine Carpentier & Emmanuelle Colboc & translated by Eric Rosencrantz - 13 April 2011
Since February 2005, all new and renovated housing in France has to meet standards of accessibility for the...
From the Field

The Ladies Kingdom and Its Many Uses. A shopping mall in Riyadh for women only

Saba A. Le Renard & translated by Eric Rosencrantz - 30 March 2011
The frenetic development of Riyadh in Saudi Arabia is unveiling new and unexpected urban realms, including a...
Essays

“Ghetto,” “Banishment,” “Neighborhood Effects.” A Critique of the “Ghetto” Image of French Housing Projects

Pierre Gilbert & translated by Eric Rosencrantz - 23 March 2011
Are residents of French housing projects really “banished” to their neighborhoods and kept in “confinement” there?...
Debates

The city is sustainable development

Jacques Lévy & translated by Eric Rosencrantz - 9 February 2011
After unraveling the divergent conceptions of the relationship between “nature” and “society” that underlie the debate...
Debates

The New French Ghettos

Hervé Marchal & Jean-Marc Stébé & translated by Eric Rosencrantz - 16 December 2010
Are housing projects in France – particularly the French slums euphemistically termed Zones Urbaines Sensibles (ZUS...
Essays

Alternative views and uses of money

Smaïn Laacher & translated by Eric Rosencrantz - 1 December 2010
Still largely unknown, Local Exchange Trading Systems (LETS) are interesting alternatives to free market dominance....
Essays

Corridors of exile: a worldwide web of camps

Michel Agier & translated by Eric Rosencrantz - 25 November 2010
Urban anthropologist Michel Agier describes how Europe controls migrant populations, keeping them “locked out” of...

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