Metropolitics

Summer/Fall Reading 2025

The Editorial Board — 2025-08-01T05:00:00Z

The Editorial Board will be posting new articles again from early September. In the meantime, members of the Metropolitics team here share some of their summer/fall reading recommendations.
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Counterinstitution: Activist Estates of the Lower East Side by Nandini Bagchee New York: Fordham University Press, 2018 ISBN: 9780823279265
This book documents the repurposing by political activists of three buildings on New York City's Lower East Side in the 1960s and '70s. It explores how

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Summer Reading 2024

The Editorial Board — 2024-07-23T05:00:00Z

The Editorial Board is now on summer break and will be posting new articles again in September. We've curated a selection of articles published over the 2023/2024 academic year for summer reading.
The articles below engage with a broad range of topics: resistance to “fifteen-minute cities” in England; police accountability; explorations of New York City past and present; military urbanism in Northern Ireland; queer social infrastructure in Toronto; the realities of forced labor in American

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Summer Reading 2023

The Editorial Board — 2023-07-18T05:00:00Z

The Editorial Board is now on summer break and will be posting new articles again starting on Tuesday, September 5. We've curated a selection of articles published over the 2022/2023 academic year for summer reading.
The articles below engage with a broad range of topics: urban waste management in India and France; realities of urban life in New York (from superdiversity to the platform economy to basement housing); housing issues in Brazil and Lebanon; or the impact of a new transportation

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Summer Reading 2022

The Editorial Board — 2022-07-22T05:00:00Z

The Editorial Board is now on summer break and will be posting new articles again starting on Tuesday, September 6, 2022. We've curated a selection of articles published over the 2021/2022 academic year for summer reading.
The articles below engage with a broad range of topics, from the role of data in community organizing and urban governance to the politics of taxation. Several articles raise important questions about the future of work and the intersections of public infrastructure, debt,

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Summer Reading 2021

The Editorial Board — 2021-07-20T05:00:00Z

The Editorial Board is now on summer break and will be posting new articles again from Tuesday, September 7, 2021. We've curated a selection of pieces published over the 2020/2021 academic year for summer reading.
The pieces below engage with a range of timely topics. Several articles and a special series deal with contemporary housing issues, from the rise of tax-credit investment at the expense of affordable housing to the struggle to preserve public housing. A special series on

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Summer Reading 2020

The Editorial Board — 2020-07-20T05:30:00Z

The Editorial Board is currently on summer break, but will be posting new articles again starting on Tuesday, September 15. In light of the recent mass protests against police brutality, we are featuring a selection of papers published in Metropolitics that address issues of police violence and racism to contribute to the dialogue this movement has generated.
When George Floyd was murdered by the Minneapolis police on May 25, 2020, mass protests against police violence and institutional

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Summer Reading 2019

The Editorial Board — 2019-07-17T11:23:13Z

The Editorial Board is now on summer break and will be posting new articles again starting on Tuesday, September 10. To tide you over, we are featuring a selection of papers published over the course of the 2018/2019 academic year.
These articles range widely in focus. They consider climate change and its perils—the environmental vulnerability of black women and the convergence of urbanization and climate change—but also find reason for optimism, evidenced by Boston's use of solid waste

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Summer Reading 2018

The Editorial Board — 2018-07-31T10:04:17Z

The Editorial Board is now on summer break, and will be posting new articles again starting on Tuesday, September 11. To tide you over, we are featuring a selection of papers published over the course of the 2017/2018 academic year.
These articles range widely in focus, from the politics of work in New York City parks to the politics of water in informal settlements outside of Mexico City; from the bonds between football coaches and public high-school students in Chicago to the bonds forged

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Summer Wanderings 2012

The Editorial Board — 2012-07-06T04:55:00Z

Metropolitics has packed its bags for the summer! Publications will resume on 12 September. In the meantime, why not enjoy a leisurely stroll through the past year with a selection of articles from 2011/12. Happy reading, and have a nice summer!
Essays
Mapping votes and social inequalities: the case of Paris and its inner suburbs Jean Rivière
Analysing local contexts can prove particularly enlightening when it comes to understanding electoral processes, whether in terms of

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Summer Break 2011

The Editorial Board — 2011-07-20T14:12:32Z

Metropolitics is on vacation. Publications will resume on September 12th. In the meantime, we propose a selection of papers published since November 2010. Enjoy reading, and have a nice summer !
Debates
Why Build New Housing? by Jean-Claude Driant, 28/01/2011
Can building more houses solve the housing problem? Jean-Claude Driant shows that a simple quantitative approach does not fulfill the different housing policy goals set by the State. Rather than rejecting the analysis based on the

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