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Essays

Cracks Where the Light Gets in: Recent Legal Breakthroughs in Detention and Crimmigration in Canada

Petra Molnar & Stephanie J. Silverman - 7 December 2016

While the criminalization of immigrants has been pervasive—leading many to adopt the word “crimmigration”—that does...

From the Field

Struggles over Rights and Representations in the Migrant Metropolis: Reverberations of the Trump Effect in the Global South

María V. Barbero - 7 December 2016

While Latin America figures in US debates about immigration as a source of immigrants, Trump-style anti-immigrant...

Essays

Remaking Black Political Spaces for Black Liberation

Akira Drake Rodriguez - 1 December 2016

What are the political implications of the redistribution of the Black population in the US? Akira Drake Rodriguez...

From the Field

Proclaiming “Veggie Pride” in Paris and New York

Elizabeth Cherry - 22 November 2016

How do animal-rights activists promote vegetarianism? Many activists use environmental and health arguments, but this...

Debates

On Clinton, Obama, Trump and the Failures of Liberal Urban Policy

James DeFilippis - 15 November 2016

Many progressives are still in shock at the outcome of the recent US presidential election. In this contribution to...

From the Field

A Welcoming (and Sometimes Not) America: Immigrant Integration in the New South

Anna Joo Kim - 1 November 2016

In a departure from traditional patterns of migrant settlement in the US, a cluster of ethnoburbs is emerging in...

Reviews

Restless Cities

Laura Wolf-Powers - 25 October 2016

The world of downtown real-estate development seems to have a life of its own, independent of demand for space and...

Reviews

Filming Ethnic Diversity in New York

Stéphane Tonnelat & translated by Christina Mitrakos - 21 October 2016

Frederick Wiseman’s fortieth documentary film, In Jackson Heights (2015), returns to an urban theme explored in...

Essays

Overcoming the “Scalar Stalemate” in Community Development

Evan Casper-Futterman - 14 October 2016

When urban practitioners undertake local projects, they are often working not only to achieve material gains in...

From the Field

Liberty, Community and Religion: A Hispano-Moroccan Family in Andalusia

Alain Cottereau & translated by Oliver Waine - 11 October 2016

In Europe, the relationship that migrants originating from the Arab Muslim world – whether first- or...

From the Field

Building a Multifaceted Campaign for Public Higher Education

Stephen Brier & Michael Fabricant - 4 October 2016

In their new book, Austerity Blues: Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education, Michael Fabricant and Stephen...

Debates

Climate Action Plans and the “Climate-Just” City

Cecelia Walsh-Russo - 27 September 2016

In the face of major climatic changes, more and more US cities are developing climate action plans. But while these...

Debates

Let Bodegas Be Bodegas

Dory Thrasher - 20 September 2016

A new rule proposed by the US Department of Agriculture would impose new stocking rules on food stores that accept...

From the Field

“We Are the Scene”: Alternative Art Economies in Bushwick

Mary Kosut - 13 September 2016

Artists and art communities are essential to the cultural life of cities. In New York City, artists have created...

From the Field

The French Republic and the Paris Spring

Gregory Smithsimon - 6 September 2016

Has the French Spring arrived yet? Gregory Smithsimon documents La Nuit Debout, a self-named social movement that has...

Metropolitics

To our French colleagues and readers

The Editorial Board - 27 July 2016

We stand in with you in solidarity and grief in the aftermath of the recent attacks in Nice and...

Metropolitics

Open Letter Condemning the Purge of Academic Institutions in Turkey

The Editorial Board - 22 July 2016

The editorial board of Metropolitics invites its readers to join it in its support of the following petition (link...

Reviews

Evictions and Poverty

Hilary Botein - 28 June 2016

Matthew Desmond’s Evicted has drawn much-needed attention to the under-studied problem of unsubsidized rental...

Essays

The Crisis of Geographical Imagination in Turkey

Luka Lucić - 21 June 2016

Ethnic, nationalistic and social tensions are at an all-time high in Turkey, exacerbated by the re‑emergence of the...

From the Field

Securing Land Tenure in Egypt: Who Needs Registered Titles?

David Sims - 14 June 2016

David Sims challenges popular wisdom on property-rights regimes in non-Western nations by questioning the relevance...

Essays

The Wrecker’s Pick. The Rationales and Hidden Agendas of Urban Renewal in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Alain Faure & translated by Christina Mitrakos - 7 June 2016

Alain Faure, a scholar of the social history of cities, puts urban renewal into perspective. He questions the...

Reviews

On Being Black and Poor in a Small City

Peter Moskos - 24 May 2016

No Way Out, Waverly Duck’s recent examination of how African Americans in an impoverished small city construct a...

From the Field

The Flea Market of Marseille

Michèle Jolé & William Kornblum - 17 May 2016

Marseille’s flea market (“marché aux puces”) lies at the heart of a vast urban renewal project that could end up...

Debates

Technocratic Values and Uneven Development in the “Smart City”

Taylor Shelton & Jennifer Clark - 10 May 2016

In the US, the idea of “smart cities” is coming to dominate federal government involvement in, and funding for, urban...

From the Field

“Harriet Jacobs didn’t learn to read and write so that she could get an A”

C. Ray Borck - 3 May 2016

Confronted by school systems that persistently reproduce race- and class-based educational inequality, how can...

Debates

More Affordable Transit Fares

Alexis Perrotta - 26 April 2016

Low-income urban residents often struggle to afford transit fares. Seattle recently established half-fares for poor...

From the Field

Looking Inward, Across the Border

Harel Shapira - 19 April 2016

In the constellation of anti-immigrant politics in the United States, groups like the Minutemen, civilians who patrol...

Reviews

The Intimate Politics of Public Housing’s Demise

Dory Thrasher - 12 April 2016

Many ethnographies have documented the physical and institutional fragility of America’s public housing. Writing in a...

From the Field

Where Did the Bees Go? New York City Beekeeping Amid Ecological Crises

Mary Kosut & Lisa Jean Moore - 5 April 2016

The decline and extinction of bees and other pollinators threatens the global food supply. Residents in cities like...

From the Field

Childhood Spent Waiting at the Gate

Adeline Perrot & translated by Oliver Waine - 1 April 2016

The recent opening of a holding area for “unaccompanied foreign minors” at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport reflects a...

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