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Can Cannabis Be Legalized in France Without Inflaming the
Banlieues
?
Christian Ben Lakhdar & Aymeric Reyre & translated by Oliver Waine
- 5 July 2019
France is a place of paradoxes: cannabis is widely consumed, and yet legalization does not seem to be on the cards,...
Reviews
Crisis Makes Heroes: Affordable Housing in New York City During and After a “Decade of Fire”
Susan Saegert
- 2 July 2019
Susan Saegert discusses the memoirs of two hard-fighting Bronx housing advocates, active at a particularly...
Reviews
Whose Bronx?:
Decade of Fire
Looks Back at a Complicated History of Neighborhood Abandonment and the Rise of Community Control in the South Bronx
Aly Hassell
- 2 July 2019
Decade of Fire, a new documentary film by lifelong South Bronx resident and first-time filmmaker Vivian Vázquez...
Reviews
Incarceration, Human Rights, and Health:
Life and Death in Rikers Island
Tawana Anthony
- 25 June 2019
Tawana Anthony applauds Homer Venters’ Life and Death in Rikers Island for exposing the institutional indifference...
From the Field
Who Cleans Paris? Garbage Collectors in Their Own Words
Coline Ferrant & Marie Mourad & translated by Oliver Waine
- 21 June 2019
Who are Paris’s garbage collectors? Coline Ferrant and Marie Mourad highlight the diverse working conditions covered...
Essays
From non-planning to cutting-edge policy: the transformation of waste management in Boston since the 1980s
Lily Baum Pollans
- 11 June 2019
Recycling and composting are hot topics. Lily Baum Pollans argues that Boston’s changing approach to waste...
From the Field
Moving Inside City Limits: The Urban Mobility of Undocumented Youth
Stephen P. Ruszczyk
- 4 June 2019
The urban context and public transportation shape how undocumented youths move within cities. In a comparison of...
From the Field
Made in China, Sold in West Africa
Anne Bouhali & Nora Mareï & Mamadou Dimé & translated by Oliver Waine
- 31 May 2019
From a small border post between Senegal and Mauritania, Anne Bouahli, Nora Mareï and Mamadou Dimé follow the journey...
Debates
Reclaim Value Capture for Equitable Urban Development
Laura Wolf-Powers
- 28 May 2019
Land-value capture (LVC) mechanisms have become a popular tool for fiscally constrained municipal policymakers....
Debates
Post–Amazon HQ2 Incentive Reform: We can have good deals—but not without transparency and meaningful public participation
Mary Donegan
- 21 May 2019
What does the collapse of New York City’s Amazon HQ2 deal mean for the future of economic development incentive...
Debates
Private Infrastructure and Urban Government: How Vélib’ Veered Off Course in Paris
Maxime Huré & translated by Oliver Waine
- 17 May 2019
When the city of Paris entrusted its decade-old bike-share service, Vélib’, to a new provider in January 2018,...
Interviews
Reinventing Segregation in Northern California: An Interview with Alex Schafran
Alex Schafran & Darian Razdar
- 14 May 2019
Darian Razdar interviews Alex Schafran about his new book Road to Resegregation: Northern California and the...
Essays
Urban Renewal in the USA: A Neoliberal Policy?
Thomas Kirszbaum & translated by Oliver Waine
- 3 May 2019
By allowing demolitions and evictions in well-located working-class neighborhoods, urban renewal is sometimes...
From the Field
How to Defend the Planet in Law
Valérie Cabanes & translated by Oliver Waine
- 19 April 2019
In the face of a growing raft of evidence that increasingly points to an imminent global catastrophe—the very...
Reviews
Planning Metropolitan Australia
Margot Abord de Chatillon
- 9 April 2019
In Planning Metropolitan Australia, Stephen Hamnett and Robert Freestone shed welcome light on the way Australia’s...
Interviews
Global Climate Crisis and the City: An Interview with Ashley Dawson
Ashley Dawson & Maura McGee
- 3 April 2019
An interview with Ashley Dawson, professor of English at the College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center,...
Debates
The Limits of the Accepted Orthodoxy on Rent Control
Loïc Bonneval & François Robert & translated by Oliver Waine
- 22 March 2019
In response to a recent critique of their work, Loïc Bonneval and François Robert defend their method and results. In...
Debates
Masculine Sports and “Respectable” Men in Working-Class Neighborhoods
Carine Guérandel & translated by Oliver Waine
- 12 March 2019
In a work rich in ethnographic material, Akim Oualhaci questions how socialization through sports contributes to...
Debates
Fixing the Accessibility Gap in Municipal Procurement
Emily Holloway & Nicholas Shatan
- 5 March 2019
How can minority- and women-owned businesses overcome structural disadvantages to building wealth through...
Debates
The Damage Inflicted by French Rent Controls between 1914 and 1948
Robert C. Ellickson & David Le Bris
- 26 February 2019
In an essay in Metropolitics, Loïc Bonneval questioned the consensus among economists that strict rent controls have...
From the Field
The Risk of “Foodwashing” in Calls for Innovative Urban Projects
Paula Macé Le Ficher & translated by Oliver Waine
- 22 February 2019
Paula Macé Le Ficher analyzes the ways in which farming and food issues have been integrated into calls for...
Reviews
Reclaiming the “Right to the City” Through Participatory Budgeting
Tyler James Olsen
- 19 February 2019
Participatory budgeting is growing in many cities around the world. Can it become a tool for urban dwellers to...
Essays
As NYC (Again) Considers Comprehensive Planning, History Offers Insight
K. C. Alvey
- 12 February 2019
Comprehensive planning can be a progressive governance tool, helping leaders keep broad principles like equity and...
Debates
Does Rent Control Prevent Investment in Real Estate?
Loïc Bonneval & translated by Oliver Waine
- 8 February 2019
While rent-control measures kept private rental housing in France affordable for much of the 20th century, it has...
Metropolitics
Navigating the City–State Divide: What’s Next for Progressive Elected Officials?
The Editorial Board
- 5 February 2019
Following on from our series on Progressive Mayors and Urban Social Movements, Metropolitics and the Urban...
Essays
The Treatment of “North Africans” in 1960s Urban Renewal in France
Janoé Vulbeau & translated by Oliver Waine
- 1 February 2019
While France’s 1960s urban renewal has been studied in terms of its effects on the working classes, its racial...
From the Field
Bare Mountaintops and Thirsty Cities: On California and its Snowpack
Sayd Randle
- 29 January 2019
Figuring how to represent the oncoming effects of climate change is a common challenge faced by whistleblowers and...
Reviews
Political Conservatism and the Working Classes in France
David Gouard & translated by Oliver Waine
- 25 January 2019
In her latest book, Le Vote FN au village (“The National Front Vote in the Village”), sociologist Violaine Girard...
Interviews
Teaching Art and the History of Tattoos at Rikers Island: An Interview with Tamara Santibanez
Lisa Jean Moore
- 22 January 2019
An interview with Tamara Santibanez, who teaches art and the cultural and social history of tattoos to youth...
From the Field
Saving Ivy Island: A Civil War in North Portland
Lauren Everett
- 15 January 2019
Lauren Everett examines two different approaches by community activists confronting change in a tight-knit Portland...
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Ivana Mellers analyzes how New York’s destination markets—key spaces of economic and social interactions—coped during...
From the Field
Moving Inside City Limits: The Urban Mobility of Undocumented Youth
Stephen P. Ruszczyk
- 4 June 2019
The urban context and public transportation shape how undocumented youths move within cities. In a comparison of...
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
Looking Inward, Across the Border
Harel Shapira
- 19 April 2016
In the constellation of anti-immigrant politics in the United States, groups like the Minutemen, civilians who...
Essays
The Political Aesthetics of Drag
Shaka McGlotten
- 13 October 2015
Drag, or the diverse art form and culture of performance that typically plays with gender and sex, is an integral...
Debates
Disarm the Police
Gregory Smithsimon
- 29 September 2015
In the current political debates about discriminatory policing, there has been a lack of serious discussion of...
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