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From the Field

Community Movements and Housing Liberalism: Reflections on the Bank of America Low‑Income Housing Competition

Avi Garelick - 15 October 2019

Avi Garelick describes how the imperative for realism in affordable housing production conflicts with the goals of a...

From the Field

Right(s) to the City in Hanoi

Divya Leducq & translated by Oliver Waine - 11 October 2019

Over the past decade, urban change has accelerated and transformed the physical, social and symbolic landscapes of...

Reviews

Why School Securitization Fails. Lessons from Morrill and Musheno’s Navigating Conflict

Andrés Besserer Rayas - 8 October 2019

Navigating Conflict describes how pupils are able to address conflicts on their own, and how school securitization...

From the Field

National and Urban Politics Converge in Moscow: Will Local Activism Prevail?

Anna Zhelnina - 1 October 2019

Recent elections in Moscow and across Russia reflect the convergence of local activism and national anti-Kremlin...

From the Field

Understanding the Causes of Eviction-Based Urban Displacement: Bringing Critical Urban Theory Back In

J. Revel Sims - 24 September 2019

Close analysis of eviction patterns in Dane County, Wisconsin, between 2000 and 2016 suggests that tenant poverty is...

Metropolitics

Summer Reading 2019

The Editorial Board - 17 July 2019

The Editorial Board is now on summer break and will be posting new articles again starting on Tuesday, September 10....

From the Field

How Can Talking Save Trees?

Léo Magnin & translated by Oliver Waine - 12 July 2019

In rural France, tree exchange systems seek to avoiding the felling that typically accompanies exchanges of parcels...

Debates

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 turbulent...

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 to...

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 management...

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 New...

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 Failure...

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, CUNY,...

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 the...

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...

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