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From the Field
Girls-Only Sport
Antoine Bréau & translated by Oliver Waine
- 26 May 2023
Against a backdrop of gender inequalities at school, an experiment in the field of physical education shows that...
From the Field
¡Yo soy Boricua!
Identity-related work and collective elevation strategies among New York Puerto Ricans
Audrey Célestine & translated by Oliver Waine
- 5 May 2023
Puerto Ricans in New York City form a minority group in the struggle against discrimination. Audrey Célestine shows...
Debates
How the Gonesse Triangle Became a Zone to Defend
Stéphane Tonnelat & translated by Oliver Waine
- 28 April 2023
Despite the cancellation in late 2019 of the EuropaCity project - a giant shopping mall and entertainment complex...
Debates
Where are the Women Architects?
Collectif Architoo & translated by Oliver Waine
- 31 March 2023
At the 2020 edition of the Albums des jeunes architectes et paysagistes (AJAP) competition, organized by the French...
Reviews
An American in Marseille
Olivier Gaudin & translated by Oliver Waine
- 17 March 2023
In his latest work, Marseille, Port to Port, the New York-based ethnographer William Kornblum paints a rich and...
Essays
Navigating
Jefes Fantasmas
in New York City’s Urban Platform Economy
Jackson Todd
- 3 March 2023
How has the “platform economy” altered urban life, infrastructure, and labor? Jackson Todd examines New York City’s...
Reviews
Making Routes on the Sea
Natasha N. Iskander
- 24 February 2023
Natasha N. Iskander reviews Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula by Laleh...
From the Field
Resisting the Neoliberal City? The Popular Initiative in Berlin
Thomas Chevallier
- 17 February 2023
Western representative democracy is in crisis. In response, direct democracy is emerging as a possible path to...
From the Field
Closing the Loop or Looping Close By?
Marine Frantz & Gabriel Renault
- 7 February 2023
Marine Frantz and Gabriel Renault explore the spatial dimension of the circular economy, particularly in regard to...
Reviews
The Black Middle Class, or the Harsh Reality of the American Dream
Sylvie Tissot & translated by Oliver Waine
- 24 January 2023
The suburbs of the United States, once the epicenter of racial segregation, are now home to more African Americans...
Reviews
Episodes from the Social Life of the Delhi Metro
Sneha Mandhan
- 20 January 2023
What is the impact of a new metro on a large and growing city? As new metros are cropping up across Asia, Rashmi...
Reviews
Cooperating in Democracies
Evan Casper-Futterman
- 13 January 2023
Evan Casper-Futterman reviews Practicing Cooperation: Mutual Aid Beyond Capitalism by Andrew Zitcer, which reflects...
From the Field
Have Low-Income Households Been Failed by the Sale of Social Housing?
Matthieu Gimat & Manon Le Bon-Vuylsteke & Bruno Marot & translated by Oliver Waine
- 6 January 2023
Since 2018, the selling-off of social housing in France, as in other countries in Europe, has accelerated. What are...
From the Field
Securing Shelter While Facing Eviction: The Case of Syrian Migrants in Lebanon
Dima El Khouri
- 16 December 2022
Dima El Khouri documents the politics of securing housing for Syrian refugees in Lebanon. She shows the complex web...
Reviews
Underground Berlin: Where Infrastructure Meets Politics
Clarence Hatton-Proulx & translated by Oliver Waine
- 2 December 2022
Water, electricity, gas: in Remaking Berlin, Timothy Moss presents a history of Berlin’s infrastructure networks...
From the Field
Plague and Urban Policy in Bombay, 1896–1914
Vanessa Caru & translated by Oliver Waine
- 18 November 2022
What consequences can an epidemic have on a city? Vanessa Caru describes the ways in which a plague epidemic in...
Essays
Visualizing “Superdiversity” in New York City
H. Jacob Carlson
- 8 November 2022
A new set of visualization and mapping tools focused on “superdiversity” shows the complexity and intersectionality...
From the Field
Women Farmers Doing It for Themselves? The Ambiguous Consequences of Non-Mixed Engagement
Clémentine Comer & translated by Oliver Waine
- 1 November 2022
In the farming world, many women’s groups defend the cause of women farmers. Clémentine Comer analyzes the...
Debates
Changes in Contemporary Brazilian Housing Policy: The Dismantling of Social Housing and Grassroots Mobilization
Thalles Vichiato Breda
- 21 October 2022
Thalles Vichiato Breda argues that since 2016, with the rise of right-wing governments in Brazil, the federal...
From the Field
Spaces of Inclusion and Exclusion: Algerians in Paris, France
Elizabeth Nelson
- 4 October 2022
In the context of contemporary French republicanism, how do Algerians in Paris assert their identities and...
Essays
The Emergence of Ecological Thinking in the City
Charles-François Mathis & translated by Oliver Waine
- 27 September 2022
What place does ecological thinking have in the field of urban planning? In describing the use of vegetation in...
Debates
The Slow Violence of Planned Obsolescence
Elise Mason
- 20 September 2022
Elise Mason critiques planned obsolescence as a form of slow violence. She argues for an ethic of care, rooted in...
From the Field
Lockdown Experiences of the Youth of the Paris
Banlieues
Jeanne Demoulin & Collectif Pop-Part & translated by Oliver Waine
- 16 September 2022
How did young people from working-class neighborhoods in France experience lockdown during the Covid-19 crisis? A...
From the Field
The Postponed Tokyo 2020 Games: From Planning Conflicts to Covid
Raphaël Languillon-Aussel & translated by Oliver Waine
- 9 September 2022
One of the many consequences of the Covid‑19 pandemic was the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, held in...
From the Field
Power in the Periphery: Waste Conflict and Resistance in Periurban Kerala
Ashish Prabhakar
- 6 September 2022
Ashish Prabhakar analyzes one Indian village’s fight against a city waste processing plant in 2011–2012, illustrating...
Metropolitics
Summer Reading 2022
The Editorial Board
- 22 July 2022
The Editorial Board is now on summer break and will be posting new articles again starting on Tuesday, September 6,...
Reviews
New York City’s Descent into Neoliberal Policy: A Review of Benjamin Holtzman’s
The Long Crisis
John Krinsky
- 19 July 2022
Benjamin Holtzman’s The Long Crisis tells the story of New York’s prolonged descent into neoliberal policy. For those...
Debates
Depending on a Curse: What History Tells Us About Property-Tax Reform in New York City
Daniel Wortel-London
- 12 July 2022
Daniel Wortel-London discusses New York’s discriminatory policies and taxes and asks: can a tax system as cumbersome...
From the Field
Arrests of People Smugglers in Niger: A Criminalization of Mutual-Aid Practices in Migration Situations
Alizée Dauchy & translated by Oliver Waine
- 8 July 2022
From the point of view of the Northern states, international migration from the South now has its designated...
Reviews
Disposability in the City: A Review of
Waste Worlds
Lily Baum Pollans
- 5 July 2022
Lily Pollans reviews Jacob Doherty’s Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala’s Infrastructures of Disposability, which shows...
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Covid-19 Transformed New York’s Destination Food Markets
Ivana Mellers
- 5 October 2021
Ivana Mellers analyzes how New York’s destination markets—key spaces of economic and social interactions—coped during...
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...
Reviews
The Dangers of Security
Médéric Martin-Mazé & translated by Oliver Waine
- 22 May 2015
In Against Security, Harvey Molotch highlights – through various examples, including the New York subway, airports,...
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