Metropolitics - Metropolitics

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%. Desiree...

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 his...

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...

From the Field

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 UK....

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 trying...

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 industry,...

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...

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