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Fighting for Retreat after Sandy: The Ocean Breeze Buyout Tent on Staten Island
Liz Koslov
- 23 April 2014
On October 29, 2012, Staten Island, a borough of New York City, was on the front line when Hurricane Sandy ravaged...
Debates
The Localism Act in London: institutionalising urban divisions
Justinien Tribillon
- 16 April 2014
By decentralising planning powers to local communities, the British Conservative government claims that they are...
Essays
The effects of Thatcherism in the urban North of England
Mark Bailoni & translated by Oliver Waine
- 2 April 2014
The economic policies of Margaret Thatcher’s governments polarised not just opinion but also whole swathes of the...
Essays
For cities of a different nature
Jérémy Grangé & Sylvain Petitet & translated by Oliver Waine
- 26 March 2014
City-dwellers want to see more of their metropolitan areas turned over to nature and urban public spaces; however,...
Reviews
The importance of the neighborhood in Chicago and elsewhere
Eliza Benites-Gambirazio
- 19 March 2014
The latest work by Robert Sampson, released to positive reviews, shows the sustainable effects of internal social...
Reviews
Ethnic discrimination in social housing
François Bonnet & translated by Oliver Waine
- 12 March 2014
Valérie Sala Pala has investigated the extent to which ethnic criteria come into play in the allocation of social...
Essays
The sustainable metropolis: when night enlightens day
Luc Gwiazdzinski & translated by Oliver Waine
- 5 March 2014
The night-time, long a neglected dimension of the city, can no longer be dismissed. Luc Gwiazdzinski invites us to...
From the Field
Coping with crowdedness in mass transportation
Martin Aranguren & Stéphane Tonnelat & translated by Oliver Waine
- 26 February 2014
Riding overcrowded metros, tubes or subways with dozens of strangers in varying moods is routinely viewed as a...
From the Field
The world of the blue-collar worker: changed, but not gone
Julian Mischi & Olivier Pasquiers & Caroline Pottier & Nicolas Renahy & translated by Oliver Waine
- 19 February 2014
Despite deindustrialisation and increasingly acute economic difficulties in the former strongholds of heavy...
Essays
Could harmonised working times spell an end to the rush hour?
Emmanuel Munch & translated by Oliver Waine
- 12 February 2014
Efforts to coordinate working hours across urban territories have increased in recent years. By exploring the...
From the Field
The burst bubble and the privatisation of planning in Tokyo
Raphaël Languillon-Aussel & translated by Oliver Waine
- 5 February 2014
Since the early 1990s and the collapse of Japan’s asset price bubble, developments in Marunouchi – Tokyo’s main...
Reviews
Gentrification in Paris: the elite versus the people?
Colin Giraud & translated by Oliver Waine
- 29 January 2014
Anne Clerval’s latest work on the gentrification of Paris, published in September 2013, caused quite a sensation in...
Reviews
Social housing in New York
François Bonnet & translated by Oliver Waine
- 22 January 2014
Is high-rise public housing doomed to demolition? A book and article by historian Nicholas Dagen Bloom, focusing on...
Essays
Migrant Destinies
Sylvaine Bulle & Laetitia Tura & translated by Oliver Waine
- 15 January 2014
Although borders are often invisible, they govern people’s right to move freely, as well as clandestine migration...
Essays
Soundscape Revisited
Élise Geisler & translated by Oliver Waine
- 8 January 2014
Research on the subject of the landscape reminds us that it does not just engage us visually, but that all our...
Reviews
The intricacies of popular housing in the Middle East
Mona Fawaz
- 18 December 2013
Popular housing is a common trait of Middle-Eastern cities inhabited by migrants and refugees. A recent publication...
Reviews
Henri Lefebvre for architects
Grégory Busquet & translated by Oliver Waine
- 11 December 2013
Although Henri Lefebvre is well known for introducing the concept of “the right to the city”, his work is little used...
Reviews
The March for Equality and Against Racism: the “Migrants’ May 1968”?
Muriel Cohen & translated by Oliver Waine
- 4 December 2013
Abdellali Hajjat looks back at the event that went down in history as the “Marche des Beurs” (“Arabs’ March”), and its...
Reviews
Catholics, sociologists and the city
Frédéric Dejean & translated by Oliver Waine
- 27 November 2013
Far removed from the habitual image of a Church incapable of dealing with the de-Christianisation that has...
From the Field
The mixed success of Toronto’s metropolitan merger
Guillaume Poiret & translated by Oliver Waine
- 20 November 2013
While the debate on local-government reform rages on in France, Guillaume Poiret looks back at the municipal...
Essays
The future of planning?
Simone Abram
- 13 November 2013
Rather than looking at the designs that planning promises, anthropologist Simone Abram prefers to consider planning...
From the Field
The metropolisation of “Roma Capitale”: the view from the Tiber delta
Aurélien Delpirou & Dominique Rivière & translated by Oliver Waine
- 6 November 2013
Far from the stereotype of the “sleeping beauty”, the Italian capital is the scene of an important and unique...
Reviews
Migration and globalization: a tragic tale
Olivier Thomas & translated by Oliver Waine
- 30 October 2013
At a time when flows of capital, goods and information are increasing, more and more material, ideological and...
Reviews
Beirut: the city beneath the surface
Céline Barrère & translated by Oliver Waine
- 23 October 2013
The geographer Éric Verdeil distances himself from the dominant analyses that constantly depict Beirut as a “city at...
From the Field
Gentrification as a driver of social and racial tensions: the case of Brixton
Amélie Bertholet & translated by Oliver Waine
- 16 October 2013
(In)famous for the various riots that have occurred there since the 1980s, the working-class district of Brixton in...
Debates
The poetry of the urban landscape
Émeline Bailly & translated by Oliver Waine
- 9 October 2013
The ideal of “nature in the city” is a key characteristic of many urban projects. Émeline Bailly shows that the...
Essays
Racism: a blind spot in French urban sociology?
Élise Palomares & translated by Oliver Waine
- 2 October 2013
Why has the analysis of interethnic relations been so long ignored by French urban sociology? For Élise Palomares,...
From the Field
Post-industrial cities: towards a new approach
Max Rousseau & translated by Oliver Waine
- 25 September 2013
While anglophone urban studies have sought to critique the way capitalism has developed, the French social sciences...
Debates
The grandeur and decadence of the suburbs
Violaine Girard & Jean Rivière & translated by Oliver Waine
- 18 September 2013
Periurban areas emerged in the 2000s as “new” spaces indicative of recent changes in French society – the weakening of...
Essays
Is it possible to write a history of urban knowledge?
Stéphane Van Damme & translated by Oliver Waine
- 11 September 2013
Historian Stéphane Van Damme puts the origins and foundations of urban studies into perspective, highlighting the...
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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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