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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...

From the Field

Photography, Ethnography and Exhibitions in the Projects

Camilo León-Quijano & translated by Oliver Waine - 11 January 2019

Pictures taken by photographer and sociologist Camilo León-Quijano with the initial aim of understanding the...

From the Field

Race and Progressive Politics in Chicago

John J. Betancur & Leonor Vanik - 9 January 2019

The progressive movement in Chicago may not be as broad-minded as depicted in the academic literature. Racial...

Essays

Solidarity Economics and Rights to the Contested City in Belfast

Brendan Murtagh - 19 December 2018

Is Lefebvre’s right to the city capable of extending the abstract meaning of formal “rights” to practical...

From the Field

Young People and Cars: A Case of Frustrated Desire?

Yoann Demoli & translated by Oliver Waine - 30 November 2018

By comparing the results over time of a travel survey in western France, Yoann Demoli challenges the notion that...

Essays

Organizing Against Projet Gentrification: Housing Activism in a White-Supremacist Landscape in Montreal

Pierce Nettling - 27 November 2018

Housing activists in Montreal and Quebec have successfully sought to secure tenant rights and social housing for...

Essays

Electricity in War-Torn Aleppo: A New Form of Urban Management

Youssef Diab & Abboud Hajjar & translated by Oliver Waine - 23 November 2018

In Syria, electricity is one of the sectors most adversely affected by the war. New means of electricity...

From the Field

Backpedaling in Birmingham

William Grady Holt - 20 November 2018

Despite the 2017 election of progressive, black mayors in major southern US cities, citizens who supported these...

Essays

Migrants’ Occupation of Lycée Jean Quarré: The Refugee Cause and the Cause of a Neighborhood

Isabelle Coutant & translated by Oliver Waine - 16 November 2018

The flows of migrants seeking refuge in Europe since the summer of 2015 have led to temporary settlements—legal or...

From the Field

When Progressive Mayors Aren’t Enough: Homes for All and Trans-Local Social Movements

H. Jacob Carlson & Marnie Brady & Gianpaolo Baiocchi - 13 November 2018

Progressive governments are often pulled away from their campaign promises by local growth-coalition interests or...

Reviews

Recyclable City or Disposable City? A Century of Urban Waste in Naples

Sabine Bognon & translated by Oliver Waine - 9 November 2018

Inspired by the study of living ecosystems, research into the notion of urban metabolism seeks to break with the...

Essays

Getting Night Lighting Right

Samuel Challéat & Dany Lapostolle & translated by Oliver Waine - 2 November 2018

Innovation in contemporary urban lighting has increasingly been driven by issues of sustainability. While...

Debates

Deafening Discord: Reclaiming Residents’ Anger in Working-Class Neighborhoods

Pierre Chabard & translated by Oliver Waine - 26 October 2018

We recently published an article showing how, in Roubaix in northern France, elected officials took steps to...

From the Field

Killing Them Softly: The Environmental Vulnerability of Black Women in Albany, New York

Tanesha A. Thomas - 23 October 2018

In Albany’s South End, a predominantly low-income African-American neighborhood, tanks storing environmentally...

Debates

Silent Suppression: How Local Politicians Stifle Collective Action in Working-Class Neighborhoods

Julien Talpin & translated by Oliver Waine - 19 October 2018

Taking as its starting point a study of a neighborhood roundtable in the northern French city of Roubaix, this...

Essays

The Making of a Progressive Mayor: James Kenney of Philadelphia

Richardson Dilworth - 17 October 2018

Philadelphia’s voters elected James Kenney Mayor in 2015 after he had served more than two decades as an at‑large...

From the Field

Inclusive Place-Based Leadership: Lesson-Drawing from Urban Governance Innovations in Bristol, UK

Robin Hambleton - 9 October 2018

Across the world, progressive city leaders are working to limit the damaging impact of decisions made by “placeless”...

From the Field

Beneath the Surface of Chinese Cities: Abandoned Places and Contemporary Ruins

Judith Audin & translated by Oliver Waine - 28 September 2018

Urban ruins represent a marginal subject of research within the field of Chinese studies, and yet are a precious...

From the Field

The Leaderless Urban Social Movement as Problem and Solution

Caio Teixeira - 25 September 2018

Today, with urban uprisings driven by leaderless social movements, the future of the would-be progressive agenda...

From the Field

Rio de Janeiro: An (Inequitably) Connected City?

Francesca Pilo’ & translated by Oliver Waine - 21 September 2018

The tangled webs of electrical wires, a symbol of the favelas, are also the sign of an electricity service that...

Essays

Local Leadership and Global Goals: How City Sustainability Networks are Changing Progressive Policymaking

Emma French & Supraja Sudharsan & Jennifer Clark - 18 September 2018

While national governments often struggle to address global climate change, cities are in a better position to...

Reviews

Photographing the Slums of 1900s Berlin

Danièle Voldman & translated by Oliver Waine - 14 September 2018

At the turn of the 20th century, the dramatically poor conditions of urban working-class housing was a cause of...

Essays

The Limits of Progressive Policymaking in US Cities

Richard Schragger - 11 September 2018

While many US cities appear to enjoy extensive powers—as evidenced by the progressive policies enacted by certain...

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