Metropolitics

“Every Eviction is an Act of Violence”

Tara Raghuveer & Joshua Akers — 2021-03-23T06:00:00Z

Josh Akers interviews researcher, organizer, and activist Tara Raghuveer about her work with KC Tenants in Kansas City, Missouri, and with the Homes Guarantee. They discuss housing issues and activism in Kansas City and at the national level, and what the Covid‑19 pandemic has meant for housing struggles and the future of housing movements.
---- Series: Contemporary Housing Struggles: Crises, Activism, and Critical Research In early December 2020, Metropolitics editorial board member Josh

- Interviews / activism, video, housing, rental housing, tenants, community organizing, evictions, Covid-19, coronavirus, pandemic, United States, Kansas City, Missouri

Electoral Organizing in North Carolina: An Interview with Tomás Garduño

Tomás Garduño & Kate Selden — 2020-10-27T06:00:00Z

Kate Selden interviews Tomás Garduño, a social-justice organizer, about his work in Lenoir County, North Carolina, leading up to the 2020 general election and the importance of organizing in rural areas. A lightly edited transcript of their conversation is published below.
Kate Selden: My name is Kate Selden, I'm an urban planner in Brooklyn, and I work in affordable housing development.
I'm here with Tomás, who I will let introduce himself.
Tomás Garduño: My name is Tomás Garduño, I'm

- Interviews / US election, presidential election, elections, vote, social justice, North Carolina, United States, rural, community organizing, video

The Political Aesthetics of Drag

Shaka McGlotten — 2015-10-13T05:00:00Z

Drag, or the diverse art form and culture of performance that typically plays with gender and sex, is an integral part of vibrant urban life. It is also often decidedly activist and provocative. Anthropologist Shaka McGlotten uses ethnographic portraits of drag performers to explore how violent political conflict informs drag in New York City, Berlin and Tel Aviv.
Drag ecologies in New York City, Israel/Palestine, and Berlin
Drag is tied to gender impersonation and crossing, but it is also

- Essays / gender, Palestine, Berlin, New York, Israel, drag, feminism, BDSM, Featured, activism, video

Professionalisation, gentrification and welfare reform: 20 years of socio-spatial change in London

Manuel Appert & Anaïs Collet & Chris Hamnett — 2013-06-19T04:55:00Z

The 2008 financial crisis called time on a long period of economic transformation in European cities that has seen their socio-spatial structures change radically. The conventional wisdom, in line with the works of Sassen, is that social inequalities have increased, but Chris Hamnett, interviewed by Metropolitics, takes a more finely shaded view, and invites us to take a closer look at the trajectories of ethnic minorities and the impacts of welfare reform.
Major cities across the world have

- Interviews / gentrification, ethnicity, housing, housing policy, inequalities, welfare state, urban regeneration, globalization, socio-spatial inequalities, polarization, displacement, metropolization, replacement, race, video, Featured

Self-managed housing at the Maison du Val

Alain His & Olivier Ratouis & translated by Oliver Waine — 2012-12-12T17:54:38Z

Alain His, co-founder of the Maison du Val in Meudon, near Paris, talks to us about this self‑managed housing complex created at the end of the 1970s, the philosophy it espouses, what sets it apart from other forms of housing, and how community life there has evolved over the last three decades.
---- Series: Mutual Housing The Maison du Val, an apartment complex founded on the principles of self-managed housing, opened in Meudon (in the south-western suburbs of Paris) in 1980. It was

- Interviews / Paris region, housing, alternative housing, self-managed housing, group housing, Greater Paris, video, Featured

The Design-Politics of American Public Housing

Sandra Parvu & Lawrence J. Vale — 2012-07-04T04:55:00Z

Lawrence J. Vale goes back to the early days of American history to discuss public housing policy in the US: he explores the ambivalence produced by the mix of moral stigmatization and social support present from the early policies through today's urban renewal and redevelopment.
Question 1.
Sandra Parvu: You are the Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning at MIT in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and you have widely researched housing policy in the United States. Two of

- Interviews / housing policy, social housing, public housing, HOPE VI program, video

Towards a regional democracy?

Frédéric Dufaux & Edward W. Soja — 2011-03-09T06:30:00Z

To achieve a better democracy, Edward Soja defends the idea that we need to change the way we think about the social and political organization of urbanized territorries. He suggest that we now need to consider City-Regions instead of metropolises if we want to overcome the challenges raised both by a continuous urbanizing process and by repeated financial crises.
---- Dossier : Penser la ville avec Marx Postmetropolis, the crises and a new regional model of urbanization
Frederic Dufaux:

- Interviews / financial crisis, governance, democracy, urban region, crisis, video

The Geography of Financial Crisis

David Harvey & Nadine Roudil & Stéphane Tonnelat — 2010-12-22T09:07:40Z

David Harvey is a leading figure of the marxist critique of neoliberalism. During his last stay in France, in October 2010, he answered a few quick questions on his relationship to Paris, on the geography of the financial crisis and on Utopia and social movements.
---- Dossier : Penser la ville avec Marx Video 1: Space, Marx and Paris Duration: 3:26 Question 1: You propose a spatial reading of Marx's critique of capitalism. Could you tell us how his work has helped you elaborate your own

- Interviews / Marx, financial crisis, utopia, crisis, video

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

“Placemaking”: a new approach to designing and managing urban public spaces

Michèle Jolé & Stéphane Tonnelat — 2010-11-23T16:22:04Z

Based in New York City, PPS or "Project for Public Spaces" is an innovating urban planning and design company at the forefront of the contemporary trend of advocacy for better public spaces around the world. Though they regard Paris as an inspiring example, they also suggest ways to enhance the role of its public spaces towards more lively and more economically sustainable neighborhoods.
---- Dossier : Espaces publics urbains et concertation Kathy Madden is senior vice-president of Project

- Interviews / public space, placemaking, parks, video