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“Roma Villages” or the Reinvention of Cités de Transit

Olivier Legros & translated by Christina Mitrakos - 3 January 2011
In France, many Bulgarian and Romanian Roma migrants are being deported back to their home country. Certain selected...
Debates

Grand Huit, big gamble, big problem

Jean-Pierre Orfeuil & translated by Michael Stokes - 22 December 2010
The secretary of State for the development of Paris and its region, Christian Blanc, left office in July 2010. He...
Interviews

The Geography of Financial Crisis

David Harvey & Nadine Roudil & Stéphane Tonnelat - 22 December 2010
David Harvey is a leading figure of the marxist critique of neoliberalism. During his last stay in France, in October...
Debates

The New French Ghettos

Hervé Marchal & Jean-Marc Stébé & translated by Eric Rosencrantz - 16 December 2010
Are housing projects in France – particularly the French slums euphemistically termed Zones Urbaines Sensibles (ZUS...
Interviews

Three questions to Richard Sennett

Richard Sennett & Philippe Simay & Stéphane Tonnelat - 15 December 2010
Richard Sennett writes about cities, labor, and culture. He teaches sociology at New York University and at the...
Essays

Alternative views and uses of money

Smaïn Laacher & translated by Eric Rosencrantz - 1 December 2010
Still largely unknown, Local Exchange Trading Systems (LETS) are interesting alternatives to free market dominance....
Metropolitics

Editorial

La rédaction - 26 November 2010
Metropolitics.eu is designed to foster encounters and discussion among all interested in urban, architectural and...
Essays

Corridors of exile: a worldwide web of camps

Michel Agier & translated by Eric Rosencrantz - 25 November 2010
Urban anthropologist Michel Agier describes how Europe controls migrant populations, keeping them “locked out” of our...
Reviews

The Paradoxes of Urban Authenticity

Andrea Mubi Brighenti - 25 November 2010
Diversity is becoming a moot point as consumerism replaces authenticity. In this well written, engaging and...
Debates

The Virtues and Vices of the Growth of Homeownership

Jean-Claude Driant & translated by Christina Mitrakos - 24 November 2010
Why is it necessary to become a homeowner? Jean-Claude Driant examines the arguments for and against policies that...
Interviews

“Placemaking”: a new approach to designing and managing urban public spaces

Michèle Jolé & Stéphane Tonnelat - 23 November 2010
Based in New York City, PPS or "Project for Public Spaces" is an innovating urban planning and design company at the...

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Covid-19 Transformed New York’s Destination Food Markets

Ivana Mellers - 5 October 2021
Ivana Mellers analyzes how New York’s destination markets—key spaces of economic and social interactions—coped during...
From the Field

Moving Inside City Limits: The Urban Mobility of Undocumented Youth

Stephen P. Ruszczyk - 4 June 2019
The urban context and public transportation shape how undocumented youths move within cities. In a comparison of New...
Reviews

Filming Ethnic Diversity in New York

Stéphane Tonnelat & translated by Christina Mitrakos - 21 October 2016
Frederick Wiseman’s fortieth documentary film, In Jackson Heights (2015), returns to an urban theme explored in...
From the Field

Looking Inward, Across the Border

Harel Shapira - 19 April 2016
In the constellation of anti-immigrant politics in the United States, groups like the Minutemen, civilians who patrol...
Essays

The Political Aesthetics of Drag

Shaka McGlotten - 13 October 2015
Drag, or the diverse art form and culture of performance that typically plays with gender and sex, is an integral...
Debates

Disarm the Police

Gregory Smithsimon - 29 September 2015
In the current political debates about discriminatory policing, there has been a lack of serious discussion of...

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“Our hallway’s big enough to play football in!” The council housing...

The Guardian
Boasting two-sink kitchens, Tower Court in north London is tailored for the Haredi Jewish community – but its...

Saudi Arabia: How is Mobility Being Transformed in the Oil Kingdom?

Mobile Lives Forum
04 April 2025, by Aniss Mouad Mezoued The launch of the Riyadh metro in late November 2024 once again highlighted...

Transport for Suburbia: Beyond the Automobile Age (Paul Mees)

Mobile Lives Forum
27 March 2025, by Javier Caletrío Can suburbia avoid car dependence? Can low-density areas enjoy first-rate public...

Geopolitics and Electric Vehicles: The Rise of Climate Protectionism

Mobile Lives Forum
17 February 2025, by Xabier Gangoiti and Graham Parkhurst The electric vehicle (EV) revolution is not just a...

One Way to Fight Rising Food Prices: Public Grocery Stores

The New Republic
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has proposed opening government-owned grocery stores as a solution to...

The Quiet Power of Car-Free Neighborhoods

CityLab
Restricting or banning vehicles in congested city centers pays off with cleaner air and safer streets. We need to...
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