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Christmas Markets and Department-Store Window Displays: Examples of Retailtainment
Nathalie Lemarchand & translated by Oliver Waine
- 18 December 2014
The function and fate of high-street shops are the subject of discussion and debate within retail firms. Where...
From the Field
The Horseshoe Crab, our Environment and our Health
Lisa Jean Moore
- 15 December 2014
Will we erase all animal diversity in the name of modernity, or will we follow the hints given by the study of the...
Reviews
The “ordinary” Italian suburbs: exploring the apartment buildings of the middle classes
Thomas Pfirsch & translated by Oliver Waine
- 11 December 2014
Through the detailed histories of 23 apartment buildings and their inhabitants, a team of historians and architects...
Essays
A Right to the Suburb? New Urbanism, Public Space, and the Law
Anthony Maniscalco
- 8 December 2014
The American suburb is changing. It is racially and economically diverse. Its sterile spaces are being redesigned...
From the Field
Bypassing the city: divisions and divergences in Antananarivo
Catherine Fournet-Guérin & translated by Oliver Waine
- 4 December 2014
In a context of global competition, major projects are the order of the day, including in the global South. The new...
From the Field
Participatory Budgeting in New York City
Celina Su
- 1 December 2014
Over the last four years, participatory budgeting has spread from one to more than 45 cities in the US. Reporting...
Essays
Is there a model for sustainable urban planning?
Claire Carriou & Olivier Ratouis & translated by Oliver Waine
- 27 November 2014
Claire Carriou and Olivier Ratouis reconsider the theoretical sources of sustainable urban planning from the...
Reviews
Detroit: Origins of the Urban Crisis Revisited
Andrew Newman
- 24 November 2014
The recent reprint of Sugrue’s classic history of Detroit’s urban crisis highlights the roots of the city’s present...
Reviews
Entry into the Anthropocene
André Micoud & translated by Oliver Waine
- 20 November 2014
Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, backed up by an impressive amount of data, trace the history of our...
From the Field
The Abattoir’s Call: At the Margins of New York City’s Foodie Movement
Richard E. Ocejo
- 17 November 2014
Food-conscious urban consumers often ask their butcher where their meat comes from. But how many wonder about the...
From the Field
Nantes’ urban project: putting the Bilbao model to the test
Amélie Nicolas & translated by Oliver Waine
- 13 November 2014
The experiences of Bilbao and its urban transformations have been shared and integrated into the urban-planning...
Debates
The Violence of Sustainable Urbanity
Erik Swyngedouw
- 10 November 2014
If Nature is an ideological construction that separates us from the environment, the contemporary search for...
Debates
Finance as a New Terrain for Progressive Urban Politics
Desiree Fields
- 6 November 2014
Since the foreclosure crisis, inequalities have only deepened in the US, with most wealth accruing to the 1%....
From the Field
New York’s Two Sandys
Daniel Aldana Cohen & Max Liboiron
- 30 October 2014
According to New Yorkers, two different Hurricane Sandys hit their city in 2012. The first was a one-time...
Debates
Using heritage status to combat segregation: the case of French housing estates
Marc Bertier & Hervé Marchal & Jean-Marc Stébé & translated by Oliver Waine
- 22 October 2014
Challenging the idea that demolishing housing estates is all it takes to eradicate the social problems with which...
Essays
Regeneration and the Legacy of Thatcherism
Juliet Carpenter
- 15 October 2014
What was Margaret Thatcher’s legacy in terms of the way inner-city areas are regenerated in the UK? Juliet Carpenter...
From the Field
Flowers under the flagstones
Cédric Ansart & Emmanuel Boutefeu & translated by Oliver Waine
- 8 October 2014
Cédric Ansart and Emmanuel Boutefeu explore new ways of enhancing city streets through the small-scale greening of...
From the Field
Splitting suburban homes
Anne-Claire Davy & Peggy Mertiny & Mélanie Richard & translated by Oliver Waine
- 1 October 2014
Many local stakeholders in the Paris region have expressed concern regarding the emergence of a process of...
From the Field
The Communists’ Urban Archipelago
Roger Martelli & translated by Oliver Waine
- 24 September 2014
While the Socialist Party was the big loser in France’s municipal elections in March, the French Communist Party was...
Debates
What role for urban farming?
Laure Le Gall & translated by Oliver Waine
- 17 September 2014
While the benefits of farming activities in large West African cities are starting to be recognised within the...
Reviews
How journalists see “the suburbs”: lifting the veil on a cliché
Julie Sedel & translated by Oliver Waine
- 10 September 2014
“La banlieue”: in France, few terms convey such a clear and constant image: high-rise social housing, young men “of...
From the Field
The electoral effects of social divisions in French cities
Jean Rivière & translated by Oliver Waine
- 2 July 2014
According to many commentators, France’s major cities are bastions of support for the parliamentary left when it...
From the Field
In the shadow of the mayor
Michel Koebel & translated by Oliver Waine
- 25 June 2014
After his investigation into the representativeness of local councillors in France, Michel Koebel has now turned...
Debates
Preparing for a protest vote?
Rémi Lefebvre & translated by Oliver Waine
- 18 June 2014
Between 2008 and 2014, the French Socialist Party was, more than ever before, a party of “local politicians”. Here,...
Essays
Territorial Equality in France: A Historical Perspective
Matthew Wendeln
- 4 June 2014
Once the basis of French regional planning, the goal of national balance has made a comeback in France under the...
Reviews
The misunderstandings of European democracy
Philippe Aldrin & translated by Oliver Waine
- 28 May 2014
Though an economic giant, the European Union still appears to be something of a political dwarf. Yet a political...
Debates
The new banks of the Seine: all for the best, or just another Woody Allen set?
Mathieu Flonneau & translated by Oliver Waine
- 21 May 2014
June 2013 saw the completion of a project to transform the riverside expressway on the Left Bank of the Seine in...
From the Field
Slumdog Non-Millionaires
Rémi de Bercegol & Shankare Gowda
- 14 May 2014
In India, the dominant theme of megacities and their development has concealed the significance of small and...
Essays
Another Vision of the Suburbs
Jean-Christophe Bardot & Laurent Devisme & translated by Oliver Waine
- 7 May 2014
Images of the urban fringes of French cities often tend either to condemn their ugliness or to revel in a strange...
From the Field
Municipal socialism in France from the interwar period to the 1970s
Aude Chamouard & translated by Oliver Waine
- 30 April 2014
“Municipal socialism” has marked the history of many cities in France (Lille, Toulouse and Bordeaux, to name but...
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