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Miscounting Americans Correctly: Post-Truth as a Guide to Race and the US Census
Gregory Smithsimon
- 12 June 2018
Paul Schor’s book Counting Americans demonstrates that, in the hands of the US Census Bureau, the concept of race...
From the Field
Land Regularization on the Fringes of Mexico City: A Recipe for Reducing Inequalities?
Jean-François Valette & translated by Oliver Waine
- 8 June 2018
Mexico City’s working-class neighbourhoods are the focus of numerous land-regularization operations. Jean-François...
From the Field
Land Insecurity in Khartoum: When Land Titles Fail to Protect Against Public Predation
Alice Franck & translated by Oliver Waine
- 6 June 2018
The unstable economic and political context in Sudan has encouraged people to invest massively in land in urban...
From the Field
You Can’t Kill Marielle
Meg Stalcup & Erika Robb Larkins
- 29 May 2018
Marielle Franco was part of a new generation of progressive activists in Brazilian politics. She was assassinated...
From the Field
Taste of Home: A Sociocultural Exploration of Food Habits and Health Among Bangladeshi Immigrants in New York City
Fatema Kamal
- 22 May 2018
Resettlement in an entirely different country may have drastic consequences for an individual’s health. This is...
From the Field
Immigrant Men and Voluntary Work in a Swiss City
Agnès Aubry
- 15 May 2018
Across Europe, refugees and immigrants find themselves in uncertain civil and legal territory; precariousness...
From the Field
Shanghai’s West Bund Cultural Corridor Exemplifies the Opportunities and Risks of State-Driven Cultural Development
Siqi Tu
- 8 May 2018
The West Bund Cultural Corridor in Shanghai is the latest entrant in a global competition to attract investment by...
From the Field
Planning for the Unimaginable: Puerto Rico and Strategies for Climate-Change Adaptation
Cecelia Walsh-Russo
- 1 May 2018
The damage from the two hurricanes that struck Puerto Rico was multiplied by US austerity plans that deprived the...
From the Field
The Territorial and Environmental Impacts of Climate Change in Germany
Dennis Becker & Stefan Greiving & Viola Schulze Dieckhoff & Thorsten Wiechmann
- 25 April 2018
In Germany, the territorial and environmental impacts of climate change intersect in key ways with the nation’s...
From the Field
Urban Desires and Lust for Land
Éric Denis & translated by Oliver Waine
- 20 April 2018
In the Global South, vast swathes of periurban and agricultural land are being sold off and converted into...
From the Field
Insecure Lives Under Extreme Climate Conditions: Insights from a Fishing Hamlet in Tamil Nadu, India
Devendraraj Madhanagopal
- 17 April 2018
In recent years, climate change–induced weather events have exacerbated poverty and insecurity in small fishing...
From the Field
Floods, Animals and Shared Urban Futures?
Leonie Tuitjer
- 10 April 2018
When the city of Bangkok flooded following tropical storms in 2011, an altered urban waterscape erased the neat...
Essays
The Urban Heart of a Just Transition: How Cities Plan for Social Justice in Climate Action
Alexa Waud
- 3 April 2018
Cities are often framed as sustainability saviors. Alexa Waud analyzes 20 climate action plans of cities that...
From the Field
Repositioning the state’s role through water politics in Mexico City’s informal settlements
Guillem Ramírez Chico
- 27 March 2018
Throughout the Mexico City metropolitan area, the struggle for water access often defines the relationship (or lack...
From the Field
The Cost of Affordability: Inclusionary Zoning and Displacement in East New York
James Shelton
- 20 March 2018
What are the impacts of New York City’s Mandatory Inclusionary Housing program upon low-income communities of color?...
From the Field
The Everyday Activism of Chicago’s Public High-School Football Coaches
Lawrence Johnson
- 13 March 2018
For several generations, high-school football programs have been an important part of the social fabric in...
Debates
Where Does Public Land Come From? Municipalization and Privatization Debates
Oksana Mironova & Samuel Stein
- 6 March 2018
This article illuminates contemporary land-use and disposition struggles in New York City by tracing the history of...
Essays
Looking Forward to 2020 While Looking Back: A Brief History of the US Census
Frank Donnelly
- 27 February 2018
As preparations for the 2020 census are under way in the United States, Frank Donnelly looks back at how the census...
Reviews
Nature’s Worth: Using Human Markets to Value Ecosystems’ Contributions
Anna Krol & Lisa Jean Moore
- 20 February 2018
Mattijs van Maasakkers’ The Creation of Markets for Ecosystem Services in the United States: The Challenge of...
Reviews
New York’s Soul for Sale: Raising the Rent on Lunch Counters and Counterculture
Benjamin Terrall
- 13 February 2018
Vanishing New York is Jeremiah Moss’s loving chronicle of the neighborhoods, characters, bars, and corner...
From the Field
“People of Color Are Not Props”: Black Branding and Community Resistance in Gentrifying Brooklyn
Maura McGee
- 6 February 2018
When a new white-owned upscale bar-restaurant in the gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights advertised...
Debates
The Cost of Good Intentions: Planning Gridlock in San Francisco
David Prowler
- 30 January 2018
The culture of protest that marked development and planning in San Francisco during the 1970s and 1980s was a...
Essays
Institutional Roadblocks to Achieving Environmental Justice Through Public Participation: The Case of CSO Control in US Cities
Rebekah Breitzer
- 24 January 2018
Rather than meaningfully involving representatives of environmental-justice communities in decisions about the...
Essays
Birdwatching in the City: A Case for Multispecies Tourism
Elizabeth Cherry & August Davidson-Onsgard & Lisa Jean Moore
- 16 January 2018
This essay analyzes the growth of urban avitourism—wildlife tourism focused on birds—as an activity that drives...
From the Field
Excluding Fast and Slow: Charlottesville’s Long Battle over Public Space
Frank Muraca
- 9 January 2018
The “Unite the Right” white-supremacist rally in downtown Charlottesville, Virginia, erupted into violence, killing...
Reviews
Making Their Own History: Squatters on Manhattan’s Lower East Side
Benjamin H. Shepard
- 19 December 2017
During the 1970s, when Manhattan’s Lower East Side was full of derelict real estate, activists laid claim to...
From the Field
Demystifying Urban Agriculture in Detroit
Flaminia Paddeu
- 14 December 2017
Urban agriculture projects in North American shrinking cities have been the subject of much media attention in...
From the Field
Mitigating urban decline through the compact city? Reflections on 15 years of urban recentralization policies in Japan
Sophie Buhnik
- 7 December 2017
To cope with a rapidly spreading and now pervasive phenomenon of urban decline, Japanese authorities have actively...
Debates
Storm Recovery: Local Efforts, Municipal Constraints, and New Ways Forward
Michael P. McCabe
- 28 November 2017
Climate change-induced storm surges and rising sea levels will steadily cause more damage to homes in low-lying...
From the Field
Dwelling—Living—Waiting: Transformations of a Refugee Reception Camp in Germany
Nina Riewe
- 21 November 2017
In wealthy German cities, which have received tens of thousands of refugees from the Middle East and Northern...
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