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Essays

Giving Voice to Stammerers

Abigail Bourguignon & translated by Oliver Waine - 19 March 2024

By meeting in self-help groups, far from the usual stigmas, people with stammers are able to talk together. This kind...

Interviews

Education Myths, Black Self-Determination, and University Accountability to the City

Christopher R. Rogers & Laura Wolf-Powers - 8 March 2024

Laura Wolf-Powers interviews scholar and community organizer Chris Rogers about his extensive work in Philadelphia....

From the Field

Immigration in the French Countryside

Julie Fromentin & translated by Oliver Waine - 27 February 2024

What place do immigrants occupy in the French countryside? By examining detailed data from the last five decades,...

Essays

Breaking Down the NYPD: How Reconsidering Political District Maps Could Open New Doors to Police Accountability

Toby Irving - 16 February 2024

Efforts to stem the power of the NYPD and the violence such power facilitates require accountability to the people of...

From the Field

Wind Power: Transition Without Debate

Leny Patinaux & translated by Oliver Waine - 9 February 2024

At a time when the construction of wind farms is regularly the subject of criticism and protests, Leny Patinaux...

From the Field

Walking and Knowing New York City

Michael B. Kahan - 2 February 2024

“What can we learn and what can we know about a city like New York by walking through it?” Reflecting on his...

From the Field

Female Factory Strikes: Emancipatory Non-Mixity?

Ève Meuret-Campfort & translated by Oliver Waine - 26 January 2024

The division of industrial labor often places women workers in all-female factories and low-skilled jobs. Ève...

From the Field

The Black Radical Imagination in a Rural Forgotten Space

Brad Stephens & Chris Stephenson & Max O. Stephenson Jr. - 16 January 2024

How does the Black Radical imagination manifest in “forgotten places” amid shifting populations? Brad Stephens, Chris...

Debates

Writing the Intellectual History of Bioregionalism

Antoine Dubiau & translated by Oliver Waine - 22 December 2023

As bioregionalist ideas spread in France, their history remains partly unwritten. This environmental movement, which...

From the Field

In the Name of Metropolitan Attractiveness

Clément Barbier & translated by Oliver Waine - 8 December 2023

By comparing two urban renewal projects in Lille and Hamburg, Clément Barbier shows that the staging of...

From the Field

From Scientific Uncertainty to Strategic Ignorance

Gwenola Le Naour & Valentin Thomas & translated by Oliver Waine - 24 November 2023

In the absence of data, uncertainties about the health risks of industrial pollution abound, and are used by private...

Essays

Self-Determination for Who?

John Arena - 17 November 2023

Newark mayor Cory Booker garnered national accolades, and tens of millions in foundation funding, to advance his...

Reviews

Reinventing Politics Against its Brutalization

Laurent Bazin & translated by Oliver Waine - 27 October 2023

In Greece, the violence of anti-migration policies is compounded by that of economic adjustment measures. Christiane...

From the Field

We Are From Nairobi (#panthershit): Black Power Spatial Imaginaries in Silicon Valley

Kimberley S. Johnson - 17 October 2023

East Palo Alto’s Black, Latiné and Pacific Islander residents deploy #panthershit—a Black Power spatial imaginary as...

Essays

Feminist Non-Mixity: For Women or Against Men?

Alban Jacquemart & translated by Oliver Waine - 10 October 2023

For women, the choice to gather together serves a variety of objectives within feminist mobilizations. Looking back...

From the Field

Fifteen-Minute Prisons? A Reflection on the Far-Right Backlash Against Sustainable Development in Britain

Garrett L. Grainger - 4 October 2023

In an era of increasing political polarization, right-wing activists are targeting sustainable planning initiatives....

From the Field

The Logistics City: Insights from Africa

Hélène Blaszkiewicz & translated by Oliver Waine - 29 September 2023

What might a city dedicated to logistics look like in Africa? How does it connect with global goods flows? These are...

Debates

“Urban Exodus” as an Extension of the Rentier Sector

Aurélie Delage & Max Rousseau & translated by Oliver Waine - 15 September 2023

In the French media, the increasingly recurrent topic of urban exodus has been portrayed as one of the consequences...

Metropolitics

Summer Reading 2023

The Editorial Board - 18 July 2023

The Editorial Board is now on summer break and will be posting new articles again starting on Tuesday, September 5....

From the Field

Regulating Basement Conversions in New York City

Ooha Uppalapati - 14 July 2023

Ooha Uppalapati examines the regulation of basement apartments in New York City and the implications of proposed laws...

From the Field

Digital Technology and the City: New Forms of Urban Segregation in Cape Town?

Julien Migozzi & translated by Oliver Waine - 23 June 2023

In the age of platform capitalism, how is digital technology reconfiguring real-estate markets and access to housing?...

From the Field

The Reception Chain for Exiled Ukrainians: From Ukraine to Poland and France

Thomas Lacroix & translated by Oliver Waine - 16 June 2023

In contrast to other recent waves of refugees, Ukrainian exiles have been welcomed quickly and massively within the...

From the Field

Major Events: The Olympics of Digital Urban Safety?

Myrtille Picaud & translated by Oliver Waine - 2 June 2023

Major international events are increasingly witnessing the deployment of digital security policies and technologies,...

From the Field

Girls-Only Sport

Antoine Bréau & translated by Oliver Waine - 26 May 2023

Against a backdrop of gender inequalities at school, an experiment in the field of physical education shows that...

From the Field

¡Yo soy Boricua! Identity-related work and collective elevation strategies among New York Puerto Ricans

Audrey Célestine & translated by Oliver Waine - 5 May 2023

Puerto Ricans in New York City form a minority group in the struggle against discrimination. Audrey Célestine shows...

Debates

How the Gonesse Triangle Became a Zone to Defend

Stéphane Tonnelat & translated by Oliver Waine - 28 April 2023

Despite the cancellation in late 2019 of the EuropaCity project - a giant shopping mall and entertainment complex on...

Debates

Where are the Women Architects?

Collectif Architoo & translated by Oliver Waine - 31 March 2023

At the 2020 edition of the Albums des jeunes architectes et paysagistes (AJAP) competition, organized by the French...

Reviews

An American in Marseille

Olivier Gaudin & translated by Oliver Waine - 17 March 2023

In his latest work, Marseille, Port to Port, the New York-based ethnographer William Kornblum paints a rich and...

Essays

Navigating Jefes Fantasmas in New York City’s Urban Platform Economy

Jackson Todd - 3 March 2023

How has the “platform economy” altered urban life, infrastructure, and labor? Jackson Todd examines New York City’s...

Reviews

Making Routes on the Sea

Natasha N. Iskander - 24 February 2023

Natasha N. Iskander reviews Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula by Laleh...

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