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The Impact of Tort Reform Liability Shields During the Covid‑19 Pandemic: Hyper-Preemption in the States
Davia C. Downey & William M. Myers
- 1 October 2024
The Covid‑19 pandemic exposed how federal and state preemption hamstrings local policymaking. Using the case of tort...
Debates
When Rising Expectations Meet Rising Reaction: New York’s 2024 Housing Policy Fight and the Prospects for the Future
Oksana Mironova & Samuel Stein
- 10 September 2024
How did New York housing policy fare with Democratic control of the executive, legislative and judicial branches of...
Metropolitics
Summer Reading 2024
The Editorial Board
- 23 July 2024
The Editorial Board is now on summer break and will be posting new articles again in September. We’ve curated a...
Interviews
“There Is No Excused Absence in Prison”
Tanisha Cannon & Dylan O’Donoghue
- 19 July 2024
More than 150 years after the passage of the 13th Amendment, the fight to abolish forced labor in the United States...
From the Field
Tactical Cycling Urbanism and the Health Crisis
Laurent Chapelon & Sandrine Depeau & Benoît Feildel & Adrien Lammoglia & Maëlle Lucas & Nathalie Ortar & Adrien Poisson
- 5 July 2024
During the Covid-19 health crisis, cyclist numbers increased significantly in urban areas. Public authorities...
From the Field
Russia’s “Authoritarian Modernization” Through Urbanization: What Lessons Can Be Learned from New Moscow?
Vladimir Pawlotsky & translated by Oliver Waine
- 28 June 2024
Can the recent New Moscow urban development project shed light on the political, economic and demographic issues of...
Essays
Paris and the Triangle Tower, or a Half-Century of High-Rise Debate
Julie Gimbal & translated by Oliver Waine
- 21 June 2024
The introduction of a bioclimatic local planning scheme in Paris has put the brakes on high-rise projects in the...
Essays
The Attractiveness Myth
Michel Grossetti & translated by Oliver Waine
- 11 June 2024
Drawing on more than a decade of research, Michel Grossetti debunks theories suggesting that cities have the means...
Debates
The French Exception on the European Migration Scene
Speranta Dumitru & Ettore Recchi
- 4 June 2024
The notion of mass migration to France is regularly mobilized in the country’s European election campaigns. Using...
From the Field
The Struggle to Preserve Hanlan’s Point Beach as Queer Social Infrastructure
Ahmed Allahwala
- 28 May 2024
The march of neoliberal urbanism poses grave threats to nature and the people that use it. In this article, Ahmed...
From the Field
The Paris of Yesteryear: A Photographic Inventory
Pauline Rossi & translated by Oliver Waine
- 14 May 2024
The Commission du Vieux Paris has kept meticulous records of urban transformations, with its own perception of what...
Essays
On a Road to Nowhere? Military Urbanism and the Architecture of Segregation
Tim Cunningham
- 3 May 2024
Comparing the experiences of Belfast, Northern Ireland, with the United States, Tim Cunningham shows how physical...
From the Field
Working-Class Ecology Versus Olympic Urbanism
Flaminia Paddeu & translated by Oliver Waine
- 19 April 2024
In Aubervilliers, north of Paris, swathes of a community garden—the Jardins Ouvriers des Vertus—have been destroyed...
Reviews
Reflecting on the New York Commune at 20 Years
Daphne Lundi
- 9 April 2024
What happened in the decades after the Hunts Point Insurrection? M. E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi use speculative...
From the Field
How Cities Function Ecologically: The Importance of Urban Soils
Sophie Joimel & Baptiste Grard & Laure Vieublé Gonod & Claire Chenu & translated by Oliver Waine
- 2 April 2024
What do we know about the diversity of urban soils? Ecologists and soil scientists show that a detailed study of...
Reviews
Finding the People’s City
Benjamin Holtzman
- 26 March 2024
In A People’s Guide to New York City, Carolina Bank Muñoz, Penny Lewis and Emily Tumpson Molina provide an engaging...
Essays
Giving Voice to Stammerers
Abigail Bourguignon & translated by Oliver Waine
- 19 March 2024
By meeting in self-help groups, far from the usual stigmas, people with stammers are able to talk together. This...
Interviews
Education Myths, Black Self-Determination, and University Accountability to the City
Christopher R. Rogers & Laura Wolf-Powers
- 8 March 2024
Laura Wolf-Powers interviews scholar and community organizer Chris Rogers about his extensive work in Philadelphia....
From the Field
Immigration in the French Countryside
Julie Fromentin & translated by Oliver Waine
- 27 February 2024
What place do immigrants occupy in the French countryside? By examining detailed data from the last five decades,...
Essays
Breaking Down the NYPD: How Reconsidering Political District Maps Could Open New Doors to Police Accountability
Toby Irving
- 16 February 2024
Efforts to stem the power of the NYPD and the violence such power facilitates require accountability to the people...
From the Field
Wind Power: Transition Without Debate
Leny Patinaux & translated by Oliver Waine
- 9 February 2024
At a time when the construction of wind farms is regularly the subject of criticism and protests, Leny Patinaux...
From the Field
Walking and Knowing New York City
Michael B. Kahan
- 2 February 2024
“What can we learn and what can we know about a city like New York by walking through it?” Reflecting on his...
From the Field
Female Factory Strikes: Emancipatory Non-Mixity?
Ève Meuret-Campfort & translated by Oliver Waine
- 26 January 2024
The division of industrial labor often places women workers in all-female factories and low-skilled jobs. Ève...
From the Field
The Black Radical Imagination in a Rural Forgotten Space
Brad Stephens & Chris Stephenson & Max O. Stephenson Jr.
- 16 January 2024
How does the Black Radical imagination manifest in “forgotten places” amid shifting populations? Brad Stephens, Chris...
Debates
Writing the Intellectual History of Bioregionalism
Antoine Dubiau & translated by Oliver Waine
- 22 December 2023
As bioregionalist ideas spread in France, their history remains partly unwritten. This environmental movement,...
From the Field
In the Name of Metropolitan Attractiveness
Clément Barbier & translated by Oliver Waine
- 8 December 2023
By comparing two urban renewal projects in Lille and Hamburg, Clément Barbier shows that the staging of...
From the Field
From Scientific Uncertainty to Strategic Ignorance
Gwenola Le Naour & Valentin Thomas & translated by Oliver Waine
- 24 November 2023
In the absence of data, uncertainties about the health risks of industrial pollution abound, and are used by...
Essays
Self-Determination for Who?
John Arena
- 17 November 2023
Newark mayor Cory Booker garnered national accolades, and tens of millions in foundation funding, to advance his...
Reviews
Reinventing Politics Against its Brutalization
Laurent Bazin & translated by Oliver Waine
- 27 October 2023
In Greece, the violence of anti-migration policies is compounded by that of economic adjustment measures....
From the Field
We Are From Nairobi (
#panthershit
): Black Power Spatial Imaginaries in Silicon Valley
Kimberley S. Johnson
- 17 October 2023
East Palo Alto’s Black, Latiné and Pacific Islander residents deploy #panthershit—a Black Power spatial imaginary as a...
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- 5 October 2021
Ivana Mellers analyzes how New York’s destination markets—key spaces of economic and social interactions—coped during...
From the Field
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Stephen P. Ruszczyk
- 4 June 2019
The urban context and public transportation shape how undocumented youths move within cities. In a comparison of...
Reviews
Filming Ethnic Diversity in New York
Stéphane Tonnelat & translated by Christina Mitrakos
- 21 October 2016
Frederick Wiseman’s fortieth documentary film, In Jackson Heights (2015), returns to an urban theme explored in...
From the Field
Looking Inward, Across the Border
Harel Shapira
- 19 April 2016
In the constellation of anti-immigrant politics in the United States, groups like the Minutemen, civilians who...
Essays
The Political Aesthetics of Drag
Shaka McGlotten
- 13 October 2015
Drag, or the diverse art form and culture of performance that typically plays with gender and sex, is an integral...
Debates
Disarm the Police
Gregory Smithsimon
- 29 September 2015
In the current political debates about discriminatory policing, there has been a lack of serious discussion of...
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Strasbourg, An Example of a Cycling City
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The Trinity of Walking, Cycling and Public Transportation Must Be...
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