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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...
From the Field
Taking Research to the Streets
Jonathan R. Wynn & Richard E. Ocejo
- 9 June 2015
Residents of iconic neighborhoods in New York City have grown accustomed to walking tourism in their midst—clumps of...
Reviews
Good neighbours? Homeless people as seen by those who live alongside them
Marine Maurin & translated by Oliver Waine
- 5 June 2015
Prejudices regarding the poorest in society die hard. Does living in proximity to some of these populations help...
From the Field
Clitoral Mass: A Women-of-Color Ride Through Los Angeles
Jennifer Candipan
- 2 June 2015
Every year in the summer, a group of women, women of color, and women-identified riders cycle through the city of...
Debates
Visual Boredom: Commodification and Exclusion in Graffiti-Less Auckland
Ronald Kramer
- 26 May 2015
A common argument against neoliberalism is that it makes cities all look alike. In this piece, sociologist Ronald...
Reviews
The Dangers of Security
Médéric Martin-Mazé & translated by Oliver Waine
- 22 May 2015
In Against Security, Harvey Molotch highlights – through various examples, including the New York subway, airports,...
Reviews
All the Gayborhoods are White
Marcus Anthony Hunter
- 19 May 2015
The urban “gayborhood,” the place where gay men and women found refuge for their sexuality from bigotry, is gradually...
Essays
Transition towns, or the desire for an urban alternative
Adrien Krauz & translated by Oliver Waine
- 15 May 2015
The entry of the term “transition” into the vocabulary of public action shows that questions regarding how to build...
Essays
In Cathedrals of Craft: Workplaces for the New Elite Service, Retail, and Manual Labor Jobs
Richard E. Ocejo
- 12 May 2015
As artisanal economies emerge in postindustrial cities, the symbolic language and craft culture of the industrial...
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Frederick Wiseman’s fortieth documentary film, In Jackson Heights (2015), returns to an urban theme explored in...
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In the constellation of anti-immigrant politics in the United States, groups like the Minutemen, civilians who...
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The Political Aesthetics of Drag
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Drag, or the diverse art form and culture of performance that typically plays with gender and sex, is an integral...
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Disarm the Police
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In the current political debates about discriminatory policing, there has been a lack of serious discussion of...
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