Metropolitics

Consent-Based Social Dancing Spaces and the Right to the City

Rebecca Krisel — 2020-06-30T05:00:00Z

Consent-based programs in social dancing venues in New York City are an initial step in supporting social dancing as the “right to the city.”
The #MeToo era has ushered in a global conversation about sexual harassment and explicit sexual consent that has spread to all facets of our society from college campuses to the film industry. In the wake of the #MeToo movement, some New York City nightlife establishments such as House of Yes in Brooklyn and Nowadays in Queens have taken the initiative

- Essays / right to the city, nightlife, New York, consent, gender, LGBTQ+, #MeToo

Culture and the Nighttime Economy: A Conversation with London's Night Czar and Culture-at-Risk Officer

Amin Ghaziani — 2019-11-12T06:00:00Z

Amin Ghaziani describes the high closure rate of LGBTQ nighttime venues in London, and the city's recognition of these venues' intertwined economic and cultural significance.
From 2006 to 2016, the number of LGBTQ bars, pubs, and nightclubs in London declined by 58%, falling from 125 venues to 53. Figure 1 shows the spatial distribution of these closures. The impact was most acute in central London.
An audit by the Greater London Authority (GLA) found that 44% of all nightclubs, 35% of all

- From the Field / LGBTQ+, homosexuality, night, London, United Kingdom, England, culture, nighttime economy, nightlife

Taking Research to the Streets

Jonathan R. Wynn & Richard E. Ocejo — 2015-06-09T05:00:00Z

Residents of iconic neighborhoods in New York City have grown accustomed to walking tourism in their midst—clumps of curious observers and amateur historians following a knowledgeable guide who points to signs of the past in the contemporary landscape. This multimedia article follows sociologists Jonathan Wynn and Richard Ocejo on a tour whose subject is both the East Village neighborhood and the phenomenon of the walking tour itself. We follow the guides from Astor Place to the Bowery, via

- From the Field / gentrification, United States, New York, night, tourism, walking tour guides, bars, East Village, nightlife, walking