Oliver Waine

Oliver Waine is a member of the Metropolitics team, where he holds the posts of French-to-English translator and deputy editorial secretary. He is originally from Warwickshire in central England, but has lived in France since 2005. His areas of specialisation include urban planning and development, transport, architecture and human geography.

Essays

Soundscape Revisited

Élise Geisler & translated by Oliver Waine - 8 January 2014
Research on the subject of the landscape reminds us that it does not just engage us visually, but that all our...
Reviews

Henri Lefebvre for architects

Grégory Busquet & translated by Oliver Waine - 11 December 2013
Although Henri Lefebvre is well known for introducing the concept of “the right to the city”, his work is little used...
Reviews

The March for Equality and Against Racism: the “Migrants’ May 1968”?

Muriel Cohen & translated by Oliver Waine - 4 December 2013
Abdellali Hajjat looks back at the event that went down in history as the “Marche des Beurs” (“Arabs’ March”), and its...
Reviews

Catholics, sociologists and the city

Frédéric Dejean & translated by Oliver Waine - 27 November 2013
Far removed from the habitual image of a Church incapable of dealing with the de-Christianisation that has...
From the Field

The mixed success of Toronto’s metropolitan merger

Guillaume Poiret & translated by Oliver Waine - 20 November 2013
While the debate on local-government reform rages on in France, Guillaume Poiret looks back at the municipal...
From the Field

The metropolisation of “Roma Capitale”: the view from the Tiber delta

Aurélien Delpirou & Dominique Rivière & translated by Oliver Waine - 6 November 2013
Far from the stereotype of the “sleeping beauty”, the Italian capital is the scene of an important and unique...
Reviews

Migration and globalization: a tragic tale

Olivier Thomas & translated by Oliver Waine - 30 October 2013
At a time when flows of capital, goods and information are increasing, more and more material, ideological and...
Reviews

Beirut: the city beneath the surface

Céline Barrère & translated by Oliver Waine - 23 October 2013
The geographer Éric Verdeil distances himself from the dominant analyses that constantly depict Beirut as a “city at...
From the Field

Gentrification as a driver of social and racial tensions: the case of Brixton

Amélie Bertholet & translated by Oliver Waine - 16 October 2013
(In)famous for the various riots that have occurred there since the 1980s, the working-class district of Brixton in...
Debates

The poetry of the urban landscape

Émeline Bailly & translated by Oliver Waine - 9 October 2013
The ideal of “nature in the city” is a key characteristic of many urban projects. Émeline Bailly shows that the...
Essays

Racism: a blind spot in French urban sociology?

Élise Palomares & translated by Oliver Waine - 2 October 2013
Why has the analysis of interethnic relations been so long ignored by French urban sociology? For Élise Palomares,...
From the Field

Post-industrial cities: towards a new approach

Max Rousseau & translated by Oliver Waine - 25 September 2013
While anglophone urban studies have sought to critique the way capitalism has developed, the French social sciences...
Debates

The grandeur and decadence of the suburbs

Violaine Girard & Jean Rivière & translated by Oliver Waine - 18 September 2013
Periurban areas emerged in the 2000s as “new” spaces indicative of recent changes in French society – the weakening of...
Series

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...
Essays

Is it possible to write a history of urban knowledge?

Stéphane Van Damme & translated by Oliver Waine - 11 September 2013
Historian Stéphane Van Damme puts the origins and foundations of urban studies into perspective, highlighting the...
Reviews

The role of proximities in improving territorial governance

Lise Bourdeau-Lepage & translated by Oliver Waine - 10 July 2013
What can be done to improve territorial governance? André Torre and Jean-Eudes Beuret emphasise the role of...
Debates

Will local-government reform in London involve or abandon its citizens?

Martine Drozdz & translated by Oliver Waine - 3 July 2013
While the current financial crisis has compromised local authorities’ ability to deliver municipal services, the...
From the Field

“Soft densification” in Canada

Anastasia Touati & translated by Oliver Waine - 5 June 2013
Against the backdrop of a housing crisis, a number of local authorities in Ontario, Canada, have developed policies...
From the Field

Pedestrians, cars and the city

Cédric Feriel & translated by Oliver Waine - 29 May 2013
Pedestrianisation and the ability to get around the city on foot are key considerations in contemporary projects...
Reviews

Haussmann: from modernity to revolution

Jean-Marie Huriot & translated by Oliver Waine - 15 May 2013
Jean-Marie Huriot shows how the latest work by geographer David Harvey to be translated into French sheds new light...
Reviews

Beirut: the new front lines of urban research

Éric Verdeil & translated by Oliver Waine - 6 May 2013
In Beirut, the extremely rapid transformations of both urban spaces and urban policy raise a number of questions...
From the Field

Mongolian (Urban) Homes

Lucile Chombart de Lauwe & Justine Pribetich & translated by Oliver Waine - 29 April 2013
The rapid urbanisation that Mongolia has undergone in recent years has changed the way its population lives. These...
Debates

Identity checks and the law

Nathalie Ferré & translated by Oliver Waine - 24 April 2013
In France, the issue of identity checks is at the heart of the thorny debate on how to ensure better relations...
From the Field

Regulating public spaces: the ambiguous role played by new professions

Jacques de Maillard & translated by Oliver Waine - 17 April 2013
Despite a hiatus in the debate on community policing in France, the “new professions” involved in regulating public...
Debates

When agriculture meets the city…

André Torre & Lise Bourdeau-Lepage & translated by Oliver Waine - 10 April 2013
In this article, André Torre and Lise Bourdeau-Lepage consider the role of nature in the city through the prism of...
Reviews

Urban Ethnography: A Handbook

Daniel Cefaï & translated by Oliver Waine - 3 April 2013
Since the 1980s, the field of ethnography has enjoyed a return to favour in the social sciences. Richard E. Ocejo’s...
Essays

Teenage mobility: a socialised and socialising practice

Julian Devaux & Nicolas Oppenchaim & translated by Oliver Waine - 27 March 2013
The comings and goings of teenagers, while a frequent source of tension in the parent–child relationship, are a...
Reviews

Free public transport: from social experiment to political alternative?

Maxime Huré & translated by Oliver Waine - 20 March 2013
In a work combining storytelling and reflection, a local councillor and a philosopher analyse the policy of free...
Reviews

Algerians and the police: colonial continuities and the weight of war

Françoise de Barros & translated by Oliver Waine - 13 March 2013
How can the treatment suffered by Algerians at the hands of the Paris police in the mid‑20th century be explained?...
Essays

Are socio-spatial inequalities increasing in the Paris region?

Antoine Fleury & Jean-Christophe François & Hélène Mathian & Antonine Ribardière & Thérèse Saint-Julien & translated by Oliver Waine - 27 February 2013
Although the Paris region remains the richest in France, the socio-spatial contrasts in this area are on the...

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Terrains

Les Algériens en région parisienne : entre espaces d’inclusion et d’exclusion

Elizabeth Nelson & translated by Oliver Waine - 2 May 2023
Comment les Algériens et Français d’origine algérienne de la métropole parisienne affirment-ils leurs identités et...

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