Metropolitics

The New Suburban Secession: A Postfascist Turn in Atlanta's Cityhood Movement

Coleman Allums & Scott Markley — 2020-03-10T06:00:00Z

In this essay, Coleman Allums and Scott Markley analyze a suburban secessionist movement in Atlanta, Georgia. They argue that the case of Eagle's Landing exemplifies a neoliberal reaction to racial change and represents a critical departure from Atlanta's contemporary suburban secession movements.
In a recent article for the online publication CityLab, Brentin Mock (2018b) gives a critical account of the movement for Eagle's Landing, a proposed city in the suburbs south of Atlanta which he

- Essays / suburbs, secession, white flight, race, race and space, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, cityhood

Displacement, Demobilization, and Democracy: Current Eviction and Historic Dispossession in Richmond, Virginia

Kathryn Howell & Benjamin F. Teresa — 2020-02-04T06:00:00Z

High eviction rates in Black Richmond neighborhoods must be understood in the context of a long history of political and physical displacement that has suppressed activism in these neighborhoods.
In April 2018, the Princeton Eviction Lab released a nearly nationwide dataset of eviction filings and judgments between 2000 and 2016. From this work, a New York Times article identified Richmond, Virginia, as having the second-highest eviction rate of large cities in the United States. Five of the

- From the Field / Black neighborhoods, Black politics, democracy, displacement, race, race and space, United States, Richmond, Virginia, evictions

Rendering a Redeveloped France

Alex Schafran & Giorgia Aiello & Theresa Enright & Yohann Le Moigne — 2017-06-07T06:00:00Z

As urban redevelopment projects remake the Greater Paris region, it is impossible to separate an avalanche of new investment from long histories of both multiculturalism and race-based stigmatization. But these are histories that the economic and political authors of the new Paris appear to want to erase. This essay's four authors deconstruct the renderings on billboards created to represent newly renovated banlieues, reflecting on why France's imagined future is unrepresentative of the nation's

- From the Field / France, Île-de-France, Grand Paris, Paris, suburbs, Bordeaux, Greater Paris, banlieue rouge, race, computer-aided images, multiculturalism, race and space, metropolitan restructuring, banlieue