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Essays

Before Redlining and Beyond

Alex B. Hill - 2 November 2021

There is a larger story of spatial racism in cities before and beyond redlining. Spatial racism was not limited to...

Debates

The Second Coming of the Accessory Dwelling Unit

Joseph Weil Huennekens - 26 October 2021

Joseph Weil Huennekens discusses the history of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) in the context of housing in the...

Reviews

Infrastructure Financing and the Bonds of Inequality

Rachel Weber - 19 October 2021

Rachel Weber reviews historian Destin Jenkins’ new book, The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the...

Reviews

The Belhoumi Family and the Sociologist

Adèle Momméja & translated by Oliver Waine - 15 October 2021

What are the objective and intimate conditions for the social ascension of the children of immigrants? And what...

Debates

Reimagining Skill

Nichola Lowe - 12 October 2021

Nichola Lowe argues that skill needs to be reimagined, not erased from efforts to strengthen the institutional...

From the Field

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

Between Two Crises: New York’s Artisanal Food Startup Founders

Nga Than - 28 September 2021

The Covid‑19 pandemic forced a pause to a decade of growth for New York City’s artisanal food startups. Strategies...

From the Field

Covid-19 in Seine-Saint-Denis (2/2): How the Health System Exacerbates Inequalities

Audrey Mariette & Laure Pitti & translated by Oliver Waine - 24 September 2021

Although public health measures and local solidarity have helped mitigate the impact of the coronavirus epidemic,...

From the Field

Can the New Economy Survive without Coffee Shops (and Their Wi‑Fi)?

Thomas R. Chung - 21 September 2021

Thomas R. Chung argues that coffee shops play an important role in the creative and tech sectors of the...

From the Field

Covid-19 in Seine-Saint-Denis (1/2): When the Pandemic Entrenches Health Inequalities

Audrey Mariette & Laure Pitti & translated by Oliver Waine - 17 September 2021

The Seine-Saint-Denis département, to the northeast of Paris, was hit particularly hard by the coronavirus pandemic....

Essays

Un movimiento global por el derecho a la vivienda frente a la financiarización

Jaime Jover - 7 September 2021

La financiarización permite a las clases altas transnacionales acumular capital a través de la tierra, aumentando la...

Metropolitics

Summer Reading 2021

The Editorial Board - 20 July 2021

The Editorial Board is now on summer break and will be posting new articles again from Tuesday, September 7, 2021....

Essays

Teacher Unionism and the Bargain for the Common Good

Claire Cahen - 6 July 2021

Rank-and-file teachers across the United States challenge their unions to embrace social democratic ideals, and...

Essays

We Have Been Here Before: Crisis, Response, and the Stasis of Urban Policy

Robert W. Lake - 29 June 2021

The disruptions produced by the global pandemic have spawned predictions of sweeping change that are unlikely to...

Essays

A Global Right-to-Housing Movement Versus Financialization

Jaime Jover - 23 June 2021

Financialization enables a wealthy transnational class to accumulate capital through land, enhances inequalities...

From the Field

Inciting Hopes for the Future: Civic Activism in London, Mumbai, and Paris Amid the Covid‑19 Crisis

Öznur Yardımcı & Josué Gimel & Khushboo Srivastava & Jitendra Borday - 8 June 2021

Ethnographic research in London, Mumbai, and Paris during Covid‑19 lockdowns reveals how civic associations filled...

Essays

What Is Land?

Sai Balakrishnan & Mattijs van Maasakkers - 1 June 2021

Market-oriented land-use instruments presume that is possible to delink development or pollution rights from a...

From the Field

Policing Social Housing in Paris: The Role of GPIS

Virginie Malochet & translated by Oliver Waine - 28 May 2021

Social landlords in France recently obtained the right to organize surveillance and security operations themselves...

From the Field

Covid‑19 in China: A Civil Society in the Making

Beiyi Hu - 18 May 2021

Beiyi Hu examines responses to Covid‑19 in China, focusing on civil-society efforts at the social, political, and...

Reviews

A Social Portrait of the Subprime Crisis

Camille François & translated by Oliver Waine - 14 May 2021

What have been the social and urban consequences of the subprime mortgage crisis, and what lessons can be learned...

Reviews

The Ancestors of Pandemic Pets and Vector Animals

Lisa Jean Moore - 11 May 2021

How has the place—and role—of animals in the city evolved over the last two centuries, and what bearing have these...

Reviews

Queens, New York: A Global Microcosm

Susie J. Tanenbaum - 4 May 2021

Susie J. Tanenbaum reviews Immigrant Crossroads: Globalization, Incorporation, and Placemaking in Queens, New York,...

From the Field

Holding Their Own: Gilets Jaunes’ Occupation of Public Space

Antoine Bernard de Raymond & Sylvain Bordiec & translated by Oliver Waine - 30 April 2021

The Gilets Jaunes (“Yellow Vests”) movement that emerged in France in the fall of 2018 was striking by dint of both...

Essays

Fablabs in Africa: Digital Innovation for Sustainable Cities?

Armelle Choplin & Martin Lozivit & translated by Oliver Waine - 16 April 2021

In a context where “smart cities” are being promoted in urban projects in Africa, Armelle Choplin and Martin Lozivit...

From the Field

Reflections on Four Years of Housing-Justice Support Work with Mapping Action Collective

Sachi Arakawa & Tim Hitchins - 13 April 2021

Mapping Action Collective, based in Portland, Oregon, leverages mapping and data to support housing-justice...

From the Field

Landlord Tech in Covid‑19 Times

Erin McElroy & Wonyoung So - 30 March 2021

Covid‑19 has expanded trends in surveillance technology deployed by landlords and property managers—resulting in...

From the Field

Algeria’s Hirak: When a Social Movement Puts Citizenship Under the Microscope

Islam Amine Derradji & Amel Gherbi & translated by Oliver Waine - 26 March 2021

Interviews

“Every Eviction is an Act of Violence”

Tara Raghuveer & Joshua Akers - 23 March 2021

Josh Akers interviews researcher, organizer, and activist Tara Raghuveer about her work with KC Tenants in Kansas...

Interviews

Fighting for Housing Justice: An Interview with Two Youth Organizers in Curtis Bay, Baltimore

Nicole Fabricant & Carlos Sanchez & Terriq Thompson - 16 March 2021

Two Baltimore youth organizers discuss the importance of community land trusts, for housing and beyond. Series:...

From the Field

Understanding Why Homeless People Refuse Emergency Accommodation

Édouard Gardella & translated by Oliver Waine - 9 March 2021

The refusal of emergency accommodation by many homeless people expresses the intensity of their attachment to the...

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