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A Regionalist Panorama for Architecture and Beyond

Karla Britton - 30 January 2013

Can architecture preserve local identities in a globalizing world? In their new book, Liane Lefaivre and Alexander...

From the Field

Ambivalences of Gender Planning

Sandra Huning - 23 January 2013

How can a gender approach be integrated into urban planning? Sandra Huning here considers this question and...

Reviews

Intercommunality, or the broken promises of local democracy

Stéphane Cadiou & translated by Oliver Waine - 16 January 2013

As a new territorial reform is set to be enacted in France, what lessons can be learned from past reforms? In La...

Essays

Participatory democracy in France: subsumed by local politics

Rémi Lefebvre & translated by Oliver Waine - 9 January 2013

In spite of the development of new forms of participatory democracy, turnout at local elections in France has never...

From the Field

Santa Claus: Planner of the ’Pole

Marc Lohez & translated by Oliver Waine - 19 December 2012

Since the 1960s, the legend of Santa Claus has been a driving force for Lapland’s territorial development. The image...

Interviews

Self-managed housing at the Maison du Val

Alain His & Olivier Ratouis & translated by Oliver Waine - 12 December 2012

Alain His, co-founder of the Maison du Val in Meudon, near Paris, talks to us about this self‑managed housing...

Reviews

De-Westernising Urban Theory

Armelle Choplin & translated by Oliver Waine - 5 December 2012

Three recent publications share a common aim: to move beyond the dichotomies of Western vs Third-World cities,...

Debates

Do local politicians represent the people? A sociological portrait

Michel Koebel & translated by Oliver Waine - 28 November 2012

France’s 500,000 local councillors are regularly presented as the most popular elected officials and those closest...

Debates

Rent control: a miracle solution to the housing crisis?

Jean Bosvieux & translated by Oliver Waine - 21 November 2012

The sharp rise in housing costs in France since the end of the 1990s has generated much debate on the subject of...

From the Field

The reconstruction of Beirut: sowing the seeds for future conflicts?

Bruno Marot & Serge Yazigi & translated by Oliver Waine - 14 November 2012

Periods of post-war reconstruction are often the backdrop for new socio-economic and political dynamics. In Beirut,...

From the Field

Children’s autonomy and our relationship with public spaces

Clément Rivière & translated by Oliver Waine - 7 November 2012

The relationship between children and the city – a subject seldom studied in France in the past – has in recent years...

Reviews

Marne-la-Vallée: from new town to true town?

Laurent Cailly & translated by Oliver Waine - 31 October 2012

The redefinition of relations between a city’s centre and its outskirts is often described as the rise of a...

Debates

Participation and housing policies: a century-old phenomenon

Marie-Hélène Bacqué & Claire Carriou & translated by Oliver Waine - 24 October 2012

The recent renewed interest in participatory housing experiments is, in fact, linked to a much longer history that...

From the Field

(Re-)Inventing self-build housing in Strasbourg

Anne Debarre & Hélène Steinmetz & translated by Oliver Waine - 17 October 2012

In the world of alternative housing, Strasbourg is an important player. Here, Anne Debarre and Hélène Steinmetz...

From the Field

The Vertical Village: the long road travelled by a Lyon housing cooperative

Marie-Pierre Marchand & translated by Oliver Waine - 10 October 2012

The “Village Vertical” development that has taken shape in a mixed-development zone in Villeurbanne, near Lyon, is...

Reviews

History of Modern Architecture Revisited

Karla Britton - 3 October 2012

The latest work by Jean-Louis Cohen is an original contribution to the history of modern architecture. His fresh...

Debates

Social housing in Europe: the end of an era?

Noémie Houard & translated by Oliver Waine - 26 September 2012

Although there is no single European model for social housing, there are nevertheless a number of common trends and...

From the Field

Challenges in Co-Producing Publicly Accessible Spaces

Ulrich Berding & Antje Havemann & Juliane Pegels - 19 September 2012

Publicly accessible urban spaces are more often than not co-produced and maintained via ad hoc partnerships between...

Essays

Settlement policy in Israel. Transforming Jerusalem’s contested metropolitan landscape

Marco Allegra - 12 September 2012

In Jerusalem, competition for land is central to the ongoing conflict. Marco Allegra shows how ideology can be less...

Metropolitics

Summer Wanderings 2012

The Editorial Board - 6 July 2012

Metropolitics has packed its bags for the summer! Publications will resume on 12 September. In the meantime, why...

Interviews

The Design-Politics of American Public Housing

Sandra Parvu & Lawrence J. Vale - 4 July 2012

Lawrence J. Vale goes back to the early days of American history to discuss public housing policy in the US: he...

Essays

Mapping votes and social inequalities: the case of Paris and its inner suburbs

Jean Rivière & translated by Oliver Waine - 27 June 2012

Analysing local contexts can prove particularly enlightening when it comes to understanding electoral processes,...

Essays

Explaining the periurban right-wing vote: “social frustrations” of low-income households or the reshaping of the working classes?

Violaine Girard & translated by Oliver Waine - 13 June 2012

There is a growing interest in voting patterns in periurban areas, which tend to lean to the right or even far...

Essays

Maps and opinion polls

Joël Gombin & Jean Rivière & translated by Oliver Waine - 6 June 2012

Presidential elections – a crucial moment in the democratic life of France – generate all sorts of analyses that seek...

Reviews

The new spaces of consumption

Andrea Mubi Brighenti - 30 May 2012

Recent retail spaces are giving a new shape to our everyday environment. Kärrholm proposes new concepts to better...

Essays

The media construction of the suburbs in France: looking back on the 2007 presidential campaign

Jean Rivière & Sylvie Tissot & translated by Oliver Waine - 23 May 2012

In the run-up to the recent French presidential elections, the question of la banlieue – the (generally poor)...

Debates

The digital city: challenges for the future

Serge Wachter & translated by Oliver Waine - 16 May 2012

What is the impact of digital technology on the city and its architecture? Serge Wachter analyses the way in which...

Debates

Organic school meals: what remains of the pioneer spirit?

Leïla Kebir & translated by Oliver Waine - 9 May 2012

The concept of “organic canteens” has proved remarkably successful, buoyed by the Grenelle de l’Environnement (the...

From the Field

Haiti after the earthquake: camps, shanty towns and housing shortages

Gerry L’Étang & translated by Oliver Waine - 2 May 2012

In Haiti, in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, public squares became the sites of makeshift camps to provide...

Debates

From Vélib’ to Autolib’: private corporations’ involvement in urban mobility policy

Maxime Huré & translated by Oliver Waine - 25 April 2012

In December 2011 – four years after the launch of Vélib’ – Paris inaugurated Autolib’, the largest system of...

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