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.

From the Field

In Norway, Housing Schemes Designed with Children in Mind

Grégoire Tortosa & translated by Oliver Waine - 22 November 2024
How can cities take more of a “child’s eye view”? Grégoire Tortosa shows how avant-garde housing developments in Oslo...
From the Field

When the Poor Make a Living from the Waste of the Rich

Simon Joxe & translated by Oliver Waine - 15 November 2024
In Buenos Aires, cartoneros—poor individuals who collect the waste of the rich—have managed to formalize their...
Debates

Discrimination and Everyday Politicization in Working-Class Neighborhoods in France

Marion Carrel & translated by Oliver Waine - 8 October 2024
Drawing on a collective study, Marion Carrel highlights how experiences of discrimination structure people’s...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Essays

Giving Voice to Stammerers

Abigail Bourguignon & translated by Oliver Waine - 19 March 2024
By meeting in self-help groups, far from the usual stigmas, people with stammers are able to talk together. This...
From the Field

Immigration in the French Countryside

Julie Fromentin & translated by Oliver Waine - 27 February 2024
What place do immigrants occupy in the French countryside? By examining detailed data from the last five decades,...
From the Field

Wind Power: Transition Without Debate

Leny Patinaux & translated by Oliver Waine - 9 February 2024
At a time when the construction of wind farms is regularly the subject of criticism and protests, Leny Patinaux...
From the Field

Female Factory Strikes: Emancipatory Non-Mixity?

Ève Meuret-Campfort & translated by Oliver Waine - 26 January 2024
The division of industrial labor often places women workers in all-female factories and low-skilled jobs. Ève...
Debates

Writing the Intellectual History of Bioregionalism

Antoine Dubiau & translated by Oliver Waine - 22 December 2023
As bioregionalist ideas spread in France, their history remains partly unwritten. This environmental movement,...
From the Field

In the Name of Metropolitan Attractiveness

Clément Barbier & translated by Oliver Waine - 8 December 2023
By comparing two urban renewal projects in Lille and Hamburg, Clément Barbier shows that the staging of...
From the Field

From Scientific Uncertainty to Strategic Ignorance

Gwenola Le Naour & Valentin Thomas & translated by Oliver Waine - 24 November 2023
In the absence of data, uncertainties about the health risks of industrial pollution abound, and are used by...
Reviews

Reinventing Politics Against its Brutalization

Laurent Bazin & translated by Oliver Waine - 27 October 2023
In Greece, the violence of anti-migration policies is compounded by that of economic adjustment measures....
Essays

Feminist Non-Mixity: For Women or Against Men?

Alban Jacquemart & translated by Oliver Waine - 10 October 2023
For women, the choice to gather together serves a variety of objectives within feminist mobilizations. Looking back...
From the Field

The Logistics City: Insights from Africa

Hélène Blaszkiewicz & translated by Oliver Waine - 29 September 2023
What might a city dedicated to logistics look like in Africa? How does it connect with global goods flows? These...
Debates

“Urban Exodus” as an Extension of the Rentier Sector

Aurélie Delage & Max Rousseau & translated by Oliver Waine - 15 September 2023
In the French media, the increasingly recurrent topic of urban exodus has been portrayed as one of the consequences...
From the Field

Digital Technology and the City: New Forms of Urban Segregation in Cape Town?

Julien Migozzi & translated by Oliver Waine - 23 June 2023
In the age of platform capitalism, how is digital technology reconfiguring real-estate markets and access to...
From the Field

The Reception Chain for Exiled Ukrainians: From Ukraine to Poland and France

Thomas Lacroix & translated by Oliver Waine - 16 June 2023
In contrast to other recent waves of refugees, Ukrainian exiles have been welcomed quickly and massively within the...
From the Field

Major Events: The Olympics of Digital Urban Safety?

Myrtille Picaud & translated by Oliver Waine - 2 June 2023
Major international events are increasingly witnessing the deployment of digital security policies and...
From the Field

Girls-Only Sport

Antoine Bréau & translated by Oliver Waine - 26 May 2023
Against a backdrop of gender inequalities at school, an experiment in the field of physical education shows that...
From the Field

¡Yo soy Boricua! Identity-related work and collective elevation strategies among New York Puerto Ricans

Audrey Célestine & translated by Oliver Waine - 5 May 2023
Puerto Ricans in New York City form a minority group in the struggle against discrimination. Audrey Célestine shows...
Debates

How the Gonesse Triangle Became a Zone to Defend

Stéphane Tonnelat & translated by Oliver Waine - 28 April 2023
Despite the cancellation in late 2019 of the EuropaCity project - a giant shopping mall and entertainment complex...
Debates

Where are the Women Architects?

Collectif Architoo & translated by Oliver Waine - 31 March 2023
At the 2020 edition of the Albums des jeunes architectes et paysagistes (AJAP) competition, organized by the French...
Reviews

An American in Marseille

Olivier Gaudin & translated by Oliver Waine - 17 March 2023
In his latest work, Marseille, Port to Port, the New York-based ethnographer William Kornblum paints a rich and...
Reviews

The Black Middle Class, or the Harsh Reality of the American Dream

Sylvie Tissot & translated by Oliver Waine - 24 January 2023
The suburbs of the United States, once the epicenter of racial segregation, are now home to more African Americans...
From the Field

Have Low-Income Households Been Failed by the Sale of Social Housing?

Matthieu Gimat & Manon Le Bon-Vuylsteke & Bruno Marot & translated by Oliver Waine - 6 January 2023
Since 2018, the selling-off of social housing in France, as in other countries in Europe, has accelerated. What are...

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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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