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“Land Is the New Sugar”: A Review of Sai Balakrishnan’s
Shareholder Cities
Thomas Crowley
- 15 December 2020
Shareholder Cities argues that India’s urban corridors are driven by complex negotiations, transformations, and...
From the Field
Cleaning and Care Worker Cooperatives in NYC: Empowerment Through Collectivization of Labor
Nora Komposch
- 8 December 2020
Worker cooperatives have been shown to reduce precariousness and economic exclusion of marginalized groups....
From the Field
The Financialization of Rent-Regulated Housing in New York City after Rent Reform
Benjamin F. Teresa
- 4 December 2020
In New York City, rent-controlled housing stock has been progressively deregulated over the last three decades, to...
From the Field
The Brazilian Experience of Financialization Through Urban Redevelopment: The Case of “Urban Operations”
Laisa Eleonora Marostica Stroher
- 1 December 2020
Laisa Stroher examines the history of large-scale urban regeneration projects in Brazil and shows how a policy...
From the Field
Fragile Financialization: The Struggle for Power and Control in Indian Real-Estate Investment
Llerena Guiu Searle
- 27 November 2020
How does the financialization of real estate—a global phenomenon—affect urban development in India? In this...
From the Field
Sale of the Century: Chicago’s Infrastructure Deals and the Privatization State
Philip Ashton & Marc Doussard & Rachel Weber
- 24 November 2020
Since 2004, the City of Chicago has been engaged in a new wave of infrastructure privatizations, selling...
Reviews
Institutional Readings on Zoning
Jamaal Green
- 20 November 2020
A new edited volume on zoning approaches the subject as a tool of planning, part of a network of institutions and...
From the Field
The Contestations and Contradictions of the New York City Housing Authority’s Plan for Mixed-Income Redevelopment
Valerie E. Stahl
- 10 November 2020
The New York City Housing Authority, faced with a capital shortfall of nearly $40 billion, is pursuing a series of...
Interviews
Political Organizing Beyond the Election: An Interview with Rosa Saavedra in North Carolina
Rosa Saavedra & Edwin Mayorga
- 2 November 2020
Edwin Mayorga interviews organizer Rosa Saavedra from North Carolina. They discuss the political landscape and...
Interviews
Electoral Organizing in North Carolina: An Interview with Tomás Garduño
Tomás Garduño & Kate Selden
- 27 October 2020
Kate Selden interviews Tomás Garduño, a social-justice organizer, about his work in Lenoir County, North Carolina,...
Reviews
Centering Equity in the Smart-Cities Project Dialogue
Margaret Cowell
- 13 October 2020
In Uneven Innovation, Jennifer Clark argues that the technological innovations behind “smart cities” can cultivate...
Essays
The House is Ours: How Moms 4 Housing Challenged the Private-Property Paradigm
Lauren Everett
- 6 October 2020
In the midst of a global housing affordability crisis that has been heightened by the Covid‑19 pandemic, it is time...
From the Field
Photographing Prison
Andrea Eichenberger & Carole Gayet-Viaud & Valérie Icard & translated by Oliver Waine
- 2 October 2020
The photographs presented here were taken by Andrea Eichenberger at the former men’s and women’s prison in Beauvais,...
From the Field
Social Housing in Postcolonial Contexts
Clémence Léobal & translated by Oliver Waine
- 25 September 2020
What happens when national social-housing policies developed in mainland France are transposed in overseas...
Essays
Shelters for Profit, Not People: The Rise of Tax-Credit Investment in US Cities
Renee Tapp
- 22 September 2020
Tax-credit investment in US cities provides tax havens for investors, and squanders taxpayer resources on...
Debates
When Revolution Reinvents Public Space in Beirut
Ines Lakrouf & translated by Oliver Waine
- 18 September 2020
In the fall of 2019, peaceful protesters in Lebanon were demanding an end to corruption and calling for a movement...
Essays
Create, Don’t Destroy: Laying the Foundation for a Public Discourse on Racial Justice in Germany
Janina L. Selzer
- 15 September 2020
A night of violence left Stuttgart, a usually peaceful German city, with many unanswered questions. While...
Metropolitics
Summer Reading 2020
The Editorial Board
- 20 July 2020
The Editorial Board is currently on summer break, but will be posting new articles again starting on Tuesday,...
Essays
Community-Rooted Organizations: Enhanced Accountability and Capacity Building for Community Development
Camryn Smith & Danielle Spurlock & Aliyah Abdur-Rahman & Kay Jowers
- 10 July 2020
Communities in Partnership, in Durham, North Carolina, uses a “community-rooted” approach to its work that leverages...
Essays
The Right to the City: An Emancipating Concept?
Matthias Lecoq & translated by Oliver Waine
- 3 July 2020
The radical approach formulated by Henri Lefebvre in 1968 criticized the failure to include inhabitants in the...
Essays
Consent-Based Social Dancing Spaces and the Right to the City
Rebecca Krisel
- 30 June 2020
Consent-based programs in social dancing venues in New York City are an initial step in supporting social dancing...
Interviews
In Search of Grand Paris: Pierre Mansat on the Eve of the June 2020 Municipal Elections
Magda Maaoui & Pierre Mansat
- 26 June 2020
Magda Maaoui interviews Pierre Mansat, former deputy mayor of Paris and a founding father of “le Grand Paris” (the...
Essays
Reflections on Retooling for the Covid‑19 Pandemic
Nichola Lowe & Tara Vinodrai
- 19 June 2020
Factories are adapting to the new conditions and needs the coronavirus has introduced by retooling production lines...
Interviews
What Has Happened in Berlin Since 1989?
Thibaut de Ruyter & Olivier Gaudin & translated by Oliver Waine
- 12 June 2020
Since the fall of the Wall in November 1989, Berlin has metamorphosed into one of the world’s most popular urban...
Essays
Homeless Theory and Research Collaboration: A Tribute to Nikita Price
Eric Goldfischer & Odilka Santiago
- 9 June 2020
At a time when too many people are dying, Eric Goldfischer and Odilka Santiago remember Nikita Price of Picture the...
Debates
Covid-19, War, and Working-Class Neighborhoods
Pierre Gilbert & translated by Oliver Waine
- 5 June 2020
The residents of France’s working-class neighborhoods, accused of exacerbating the coronavirus pandemic through...
Reviews
Europe and the Question of Social Class
Gilles Laferté & translated by Oliver Waine
- 29 May 2020
A recent French work addresses the issue of social class in Europe, considering the different profiles and...
Reviews
Confronting Police Violence and an Unjust Justice System
Michele Graham
- 19 May 2020
We publish Michele Graham’s review of the 2018 book The War on Neighborhoods: Policing, Prison, and Punishment in a...
Essays
Sentinel Territories: A New Concept for Looking at Environmental Change
David Blanchon & Frédéric Keck & François-Michel Le Tourneau & Stéphane Tonnelat & Adriana Zuniga-Teran
- 8 May 2020
In this essay, the authors develop the concept of “sentinel territories,” or environments where humans can perceive...
From the Field
#IStayCamp
. Health Conditions, Food Deprivation and Solidarity Problems in the First Days of Lockdown in the Roma Villages of Rome
Carlo Stasolla & Tommaso Vitale
- 28 April 2020
Activist research in formal settlements of emergency housing in Rome during the Covid‑19 lockdown reveals how such...
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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
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In the constellation of anti-immigrant politics in the United States, groups like the Minutemen, civilians who...
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The Political Aesthetics of Drag
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Drag, or the diverse art form and culture of performance that typically plays with gender and sex, is an integral...
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In the current political debates about discriminatory policing, there has been a lack of serious discussion of...
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