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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 has...

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 major...

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...

Metropolitics

Summer Reading 2018

The Editorial Board - 31 July 2018

The Editorial Board is now on summer break, and will be posting new articles again starting on Tuesday, September 11....

From the Field

Invisible Lines in the Sand: Bather Arrests in Early 20th-Century Los Angeles

Elsa Devienne & translated by Oliver Waine - 13 July 2018

Can beaches reveal the tensions that run through society at a given moment in time? Here, Elsa Devienne shows how...

Essays

The Educational Fortunes of Children of Immigrants in France

Mathieu Ichou & translated by Oliver Waine - 6 July 2018

How can the attainment gap between children of immigrants and children of native-born parents be explained? While...

Essays

Far from the Ballot Box: The Political Exclusion of the Working Classes in France

Camille Peugny & translated by Oliver Waine - 4 July 2018

Following the French presidential and parliamentary elections of 2017, the question of equal access to the electoral...

From the Field

Dunkirk as a New “Laboratory” for Free Transit

Henri Briche & Maxime Huré & translated by Oliver Waine - 29 June 2018

From September 2018, the public transport network in Dunkirk, France, will be free of charge for all users. Henri...

From the Field

Marielle Franco and Brazilian Democracy at a Crossroads

Natália Alves & Isabella Gonçalves Miranda & Felipe Magalhães - 26 June 2018

Marielle Franco’s life and death raised questions about the limits of Brazil’s New Republic. It revealed the rising...

Debates

Can the Commons Pave the Way to Greater Land Security?

Irène Salenson & Claire Simonneau & translated by Oliver Waine - 22 June 2018

Experiences of collective forms of ownership, based on the concept of the commons, have flourished throughout the...

From the Field

Paving the Silk Road: Rethinking Ethnic Solidarity in Los Angeles’ Korean Garment District

Angie Y. Chung & Sookhee Oh - 19 June 2018

In this piece on Koreans in Los Angeles’ garment industry, sociologists Angie Chung and Sookhee Oh discuss the...

Reviews

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 has...

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 infuses...

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

Overcoming Climate Impacts Through Adaptive Capacity Building: Two Extreme Cases from Germany

Viola Schulze Dieckhoff & Thorsten Wiechmann - 25 April 2018

Climate change and demographic change interact. Impacts of climate change do not solely result from climate...

From the Field

Climate and Demographic Change: The Need for an Integrative Approach to Spatial Planning in Germany

Dennis Becker & Stefan Greiving - 25 April 2018

Climate change and demographic change are two megatrends that are often discussed without regard for their complex...

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 financial...

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...

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