Metropolitics

Children in the City

Carole Gayet-Viaud & Clément Rivière & Philippe Simay — 2015-10-02T05:00:00Z

After a long period of neglect, the field of urban studies in France is showing a marked revival of interest in children. In bringing together texts that offer different perspectives on children's experience of the city and their place within it, this series of articles seeks to contribute to the collective efforts currently under way in terms of reflecting upon (or rethinking) the specificities of these unique city-dwellers.
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- Series / public space, children

Urban Studies in France

Anaïs Collet & Philippe Simay & translated by Oliver Waine — 2013-09-11T07:32:06Z

Can French research into cities and urban territories truly be considered “urban studies”, in the cross-disciplinary sense of the term understood in English-speaking academic circles? The history of the “urban” social sciences in France and the institutional structure in place have shaped the production of research, which remains largely confined to traditional disciplines and steered by “social demand” and objectives with a number of blind spots. What are the specificities of French urban

- Series

Three questions to Richard Sennett

Richard Sennett & Philippe Simay & Stéphane Tonnelat — 2010-12-15T08:24:35Z

Richard Sennett writes about cities, labor, and culture. He teaches sociology at New York University and at the London School of Economics. He is one of the most prominent scholars on the city, from Antique Greece to contemporary New York, and of the relations between its manifold public spaces and the human body. We hear his take on new technology and cultural expressions in Paris's public spaces.
Richard Sennett answers three quick questions:
Question 1
Do new technologies of

- Interviews / public space, communication technology, culture, video