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Essays

Parallel Lives? Elena Ferrante’s Naples and My West New Rochelle

Bella Mirabella - 26 January 2016

Elena Ferrante’s acclaimed Neapolitan novels, which trace the lives of two girls born in a working class district in...

Reviews

“Grands Ensembles”: Retracing a History of Rejection

Stéphane Füzesséry & translated by Oliver Waine - 15 January 2016

From its very beginnings, the urban model of the “grand ensemble” – the large-scale high-rise housing estate – has...

From the Field

The Boys of Sarajevo’s War Tunnel

Luka Lucić - 12 January 2016

What are the impacts of war upon young people’s psychological development? Research with young men who survived...

Debates

Reskilling Urban Manufacturing: Workforce Solutions from the Inside Out

Nichola Lowe - 15 December 2015

In the United States, a four-year college education has gradually come to be assumed as a prerequisite for entry...

From the Field

Beyond the stadium: how “ultra” supporters fit into the urban space

Bérangère Ginhoux & translated by Oliver Waine - 11 December 2015

Based on an ethnographic survey conducted in Saint-Étienne, in south-eastern France, Bérangère Ginhoux shows how the...

Debates

Understanding São Paulo’s Bicycle Wars

Derek Pardue - 8 December 2015

In São Paulo, Brazil, bike lanes are a new phenomenon in a city historically dominated by automobiles. In the...

From the Field

Social Diversity in Gentrified Neighborhoods: Child’s Play?

Jean-Yves Authier & Sonia Lehman-Frisch & translated by Christina Mitrakos - 4 December 2015

How do children develop relationships? Do they meet children from socio-economic backgrounds other than their own?...

Reviews

Beyond “planetary urbanization”: recasting contemporary urban research

Matthieu Giroud (†) & translated by Oliver Waine - 27 November 2015

We were profoundly shocked to learn of the death of Matthieu Giroud, a victim of the attacks of 13 November in...

From the Field

Federal Anti-Segregation Milestones Demand Local Mobilization

Justin Steil - 24 November 2015

In June 2015, the US Supreme Court affirmed a legal tool that stands to hold municipalities and lenders accountable...

Debates

To Prevent Worsening Inequality, Put Affluent Neighborhoods on NYC Rezoning List

Moses Gates - 17 November 2015

Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning is meant to boost the affordable housing supply and create more economically...

Essays

The Tokyo skyline, or the hidden order behind opportunistic construction

Raphaël Languillon-Aussel & translated by Oliver Waine - 13 November 2015

Behind the apparent disorder, Tokyo’s current skyline in fact complies with complex rules. While the first towers in...

Essays

Bargain hunting in the “small-commodity city” of Yiwu, China

Alison Hulme - 10 November 2015

China’s rise in the global economy has been largely based on the manufacturing of both cheap and expensive goods....

Debates

A flat-rate travel card for the Paris region: revolution or illusion?

Marie-Hélène Massot & translated by Oliver Waine - 6 November 2015

Fare “dezoning” in the Paris region – a key reform to mark the end of Jean-Paul Huchon’s term as leader of...

Debates

Artists and Industry: Friends or Foes?

Paul Parkhill - 3 November 2015

Anti-gentrification activists have castigated artists’ lofts as the vanguard of gentrification, while cities have...

Essays

Thirty Years of Urban Sociology

Christian Topalov & translated by Oliver Waine - 30 October 2015

What is urban sociology in France? Christian Topalov, one of the key players in the history of this discipline,...

From the Field

Civic Innovation and Creative Campaigns: How Fresh Ideas Are Compromising Local Democracy

Stephanie Savell & Gianpaolo Baiocchi & Elizabeth A. Bennett & Alissa Cordner & Peter Taylor Klein - 27 October 2015

The trend of civic innovation in contemporary activism relies much on modern tools of communication as a...

Essays

The “Dozois Plan”: lessons learned from urban-renewal policies and the history of urban planning in Montreal

Frédéric Mercure-Jolette & translated by Oliver Waine - 23 October 2015

Urban-renewal policies justify their actions by decrying neighbourhoods earmarked for demolition. Frédéric...

Essays

Managing New York City’s Rental Housing Catastrophe: The Once and Future Potential of Tax-Foreclosed Properties

John Krinsky - 20 October 2015

New York City faces a rental housing crisis, with homelessness at record levels, more than a million households...

Debates

Social housing in Africa: a model to be (re)invented?

Alexandra Biehler & Armelle Choplin & Marie Morelle & translated by Oliver Waine - 16 October 2015

While the question of housing for working-class populations remains a recurrent issue in sub‑Saharan African cities,...

Essays

The Political Aesthetics of Drag

Shaka McGlotten - 13 October 2015

Drag, or the diverse art form and culture of performance that typically plays with gender and sex, is an integral...

Essays

What we can learn from babies’ sociability

Carole Gayet-Viaud & translated by Oliver Waine - 9 October 2015

The sociability of very young children reveals a neglected dimension of relations and interactions in public, and...

Debates

The Endangered Enclave

Mike Owen Benediktsson & Brian Lamberta & Sarah Van Norden - 6 October 2015

While most gentrification studies focus on residential displacement, businesses also suffer from rising rents and a...

Debates

Disarm the Police

Gregory Smithsimon - 29 September 2015

In the current political debates about discriminatory policing, there has been a lack of serious discussion of...

Reviews

Megacities and how to govern them: rethinking urban development in terms of infrastructure networks

Éric Verdeil & translated by Oliver Waine - 25 September 2015

Are colossal megalopolises like Shanghai or Mumbai uncontrollable? This collective work shows that nothing could be...

Essays

After Fukushima: The Silence of Environmental Organizations on Nuclear Catastrophe

Michael Dreiling & Nicholas Lougee & Tomoyasu Nakamura - 22 September 2015

The nuclear catastrophe at the Fukushima plants in Japan in 2011 raised global awareness of the massive dangers...

From the Field

Visual Sociology: Re-Imaging Marseille’s Housing Projects

William Kornblum - 10 July 2015

New York sociologist William Kornblum has brought back pictures of the Marseille Northern Housing Projects—the...

Debates

Hardening Racial Lines in Public Space

Naomi Adiv - 7 July 2015

On Friday, June 5, Black teenagers in McKinney, Texas, were violently subdued by a police officer following a...

Reviews

Jerusalem: divisive urban planning at the heart of the Holy City

Vincent Lemire & translated by Oliver Waine - 19 June 2015

How is the Israeli–Palestinian conflict reflected in the way the city of Jerusalem has been planned and developed?...

Debates

New York’s de Blasio bargains with FIRE

Tom Waters - 16 June 2015

Frantic deal-making over an obscure but costly New York City real-estate tax incentive (421‑a) provides a window...

From the Field

Vancouverism: hybridisation and spread of an urban model

Nicolas Douay & translated by Oliver Waine - 12 June 2015

The transformation that downtown Vancouver has undergone – which has since become a reference, known as...

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