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When the Poor Make a Living from the Waste of the Rich

Simon Joxe & translated by Oliver Waine - 15 November 2024

In Buenos Aires, cartoneros—poor individuals who collect the waste of the rich—have managed to formalize their...

Debates

Deconstructing Gentrification

Todd Swanstrom & Jason Hackworth - 5 November 2024

Can changing the way we understand the process of gentrification open possibilities for political and social change?...

Interviews

Can Universities Learn to Leave Behind Air Travel?

Tamara Ben Ari & Parke Wilde - 22 October 2024

At a time when global research is showing that aviation is a carbon-intensive form of transport whose growth...

Interviews

Blueprints of Hope: How Architects Shape a Brighter Future

Nasser Golzari & Yara Sharif - 15 October 2024

In a conversation centered around the ongoing injustices in Palestine, particularly in Gaza, and the need for...

Debates

Discrimination and Everyday Politicization in Working-Class Neighborhoods in France

Marion Carrel & translated by Oliver Waine - 8 October 2024

Drawing on a collective study, Marion Carrel highlights how experiences of discrimination structure people’s...

Essays

The Impact of Tort Reform Liability Shields During the Covid‑19 Pandemic: Hyper-Preemption in the States

Davia C. Downey & William M. Myers - 1 October 2024

The Covid‑19 pandemic exposed how federal and state preemption hamstrings local policymaking. Using the case of tort...

Debates

When Rising Expectations Meet Rising Reaction: New York’s 2024 Housing Policy Fight and the Prospects for the Future

Oksana Mironova & Samuel Stein - 10 September 2024

How did New York housing policy fare with Democratic control of the executive, legislative and judicial branches of...

Metropolitics

Summer Reading 2024

The Editorial Board - 23 July 2024

The Editorial Board is now on summer break and will be posting new articles again in September. We’ve curated a...

Interviews

“There Is No Excused Absence in Prison”

Tanisha Cannon & Dylan O’Donoghue - 19 July 2024

More than 150 years after the passage of the 13th Amendment, the fight to abolish forced labor in the United States...

From the Field

Tactical Cycling Urbanism and the Health Crisis

Laurent Chapelon & Sandrine Depeau & Benoît Feildel & Adrien Lammoglia & Maëlle Lucas & Nathalie Ortar & Adrien Poisson - 5 July 2024

During the Covid-19 health crisis, cyclist numbers increased significantly in urban areas. Public authorities...

From the Field

Russia’s “Authoritarian Modernization” Through Urbanization: What Lessons Can Be Learned from New Moscow?

Vladimir Pawlotsky & translated by Oliver Waine - 28 June 2024

Can the recent New Moscow urban development project shed light on the political, economic and demographic issues of...

Essays

Paris and the Triangle Tower, or a Half-Century of High-Rise Debate

Julie Gimbal & translated by Oliver Waine - 21 June 2024

The introduction of a bioclimatic local planning scheme in Paris has put the brakes on high-rise projects in the...

Essays

The Attractiveness Myth

Michel Grossetti & translated by Oliver Waine - 11 June 2024

Drawing on more than a decade of research, Michel Grossetti debunks theories suggesting that cities have the means to...

Debates

The French Exception on the European Migration Scene

Speranta Dumitru & Ettore Recchi - 4 June 2024

The notion of mass migration to France is regularly mobilized in the country’s European election campaigns. Using...

From the Field

The Struggle to Preserve Hanlan’s Point Beach as Queer Social Infrastructure

Ahmed Allahwala - 28 May 2024

The march of neoliberal urbanism poses grave threats to nature and the people that use it. In this article, Ahmed...

From the Field

The Paris of Yesteryear: A Photographic Inventory

Pauline Rossi & translated by Oliver Waine - 14 May 2024

The Commission du Vieux Paris has kept meticulous records of urban transformations, with its own perception of what...

Essays

On a Road to Nowhere? Military Urbanism and the Architecture of Segregation

Tim Cunningham - 3 May 2024

Comparing the experiences of Belfast, Northern Ireland, with the United States, Tim Cunningham shows how physical...

From the Field

Working-Class Ecology Versus Olympic Urbanism

Flaminia Paddeu & translated by Oliver Waine - 19 April 2024

In Aubervilliers, north of Paris, swathes of a community garden—the Jardins Ouvriers des Vertus—have been destroyed...

Reviews

Reflecting on the New York Commune at 20 Years

Daphne Lundi - 9 April 2024

What happened in the decades after the Hunts Point Insurrection? M. E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi use speculative...

From the Field

How Cities Function Ecologically: The Importance of Urban Soils

Sophie Joimel & Baptiste Grard & Laure Vieublé Gonod & Claire Chenu & translated by Oliver Waine - 2 April 2024

What do we know about the diversity of urban soils? Ecologists and soil scientists show that a detailed study of...

Reviews

Finding the People’s City

Benjamin Holtzman - 26 March 2024

In A People’s Guide to New York City, Carolina Bank Muñoz, Penny Lewis and Emily Tumpson Molina provide an engaging...

Essays

Giving Voice to Stammerers

Abigail Bourguignon & translated by Oliver Waine - 19 March 2024

By meeting in self-help groups, far from the usual stigmas, people with stammers are able to talk together. This kind...

Interviews

Education Myths, Black Self-Determination, and University Accountability to the City

Christopher R. Rogers & Laura Wolf-Powers - 8 March 2024

Laura Wolf-Powers interviews scholar and community organizer Chris Rogers about his extensive work in Philadelphia....

From the Field

Immigration in the French Countryside

Julie Fromentin & translated by Oliver Waine - 27 February 2024

What place do immigrants occupy in the French countryside? By examining detailed data from the last five decades,...

Essays

Breaking Down the NYPD: How Reconsidering Political District Maps Could Open New Doors to Police Accountability

Toby Irving - 16 February 2024

Efforts to stem the power of the NYPD and the violence such power facilitates require accountability to the people of...

From the Field

Wind Power: Transition Without Debate

Leny Patinaux & translated by Oliver Waine - 9 February 2024

At a time when the construction of wind farms is regularly the subject of criticism and protests, Leny Patinaux...

From the Field

Walking and Knowing New York City

Michael B. Kahan - 2 February 2024

“What can we learn and what can we know about a city like New York by walking through it?” Reflecting on his...

From the Field

Female Factory Strikes: Emancipatory Non-Mixity?

Ève Meuret-Campfort & translated by Oliver Waine - 26 January 2024

The division of industrial labor often places women workers in all-female factories and low-skilled jobs. Ève...

From the Field

The Black Radical Imagination in a Rural Forgotten Space

Brad Stephens & Chris Stephenson & Max O. Stephenson Jr. - 16 January 2024

How does the Black Radical imagination manifest in “forgotten places” amid shifting populations? Brad Stephens, Chris...

Debates

Writing the Intellectual History of Bioregionalism

Antoine Dubiau & translated by Oliver Waine - 22 December 2023

As bioregionalist ideas spread in France, their history remains partly unwritten. This environmental movement, which...

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