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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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?...

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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 Trading...

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...

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“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...

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