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New York Tech Dossier: “Innovation Districts” in New York: Contentious Geographies of Growth
Sharon Zukin
- 7 January 2020
Sharon Zukin analyzes how city government in New York has supported concentrations of tech firms—“innovation...
From the Field
Nuits Debout
Across Greater Paris: The Spread of a Political Innovation
Laurent Beauguitte & Nicolas Lambert & translated by Oliver Waine
- 20 December 2019
As France experiences strikes and demonstrations in protest against pension reforms, we look back to the spring of...
Reviews
Understanding School Closures in Chicago: A Review of Eve Ewing’s
Ghosts in the Schoolyard
Ryan M. Good
- 17 December 2019
Eve Ewing’s Ghosts in the Schoolyard portrays recent school reform efforts in Chicago through the eyes of those...
Essays
Poverty as a Social Stigma
Axelle Brodiez-Dolino & translated by Oliver Waine
- 13 December 2019
The distinction between the “deserving” and “undeserving” poor is deeply entrenched, and representations of poverty...
Reviews
Black Homeownership Under Racial Capitalism: A Review of Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s
Race for Profit
Hilary Botein
- 10 December 2019
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s Race for Profit examines the urban homeownership programs of the 1960s and 1970s, and...
Debates
Diverting Eyes and Bodies: The Management of Homeless Visibility in New York City
Eric Goldfischer
- 19 November 2019
Eric Goldfischer argues that homeless diversion programs in New York City simultaneously divert the bodies of...
From the Field
Culture and the Nighttime Economy: A Conversation with London’s Night Czar and Culture-at-Risk Officer
Amin Ghaziani
- 12 November 2019
Amin Ghaziani describes the high closure rate of LGBTQ nighttime venues in London, and the city’s recognition of...
From the Field
Rio de Janeiro: Storms, Militia, and Urban Development
Leandro Benmergui & Rafael Soares Gonçalves & translated by Oliver Waine
- 8 November 2019
The dramatic consequences of storms at the beginning of 2019 in a favela in Rio de Janeiro reveal the ongoing...
Reviews
The Just Transition, Economic Democracy, and the Green New Deal
Evan Casper-Futterman & Jason Spicer
- 5 November 2019
Can participatory and economic democracy in the US support a Green New Deal? Evan Casper‑Futterman and Jason Spicer...
From the Field
Open-Air Auto Shops: Subsistence Jobs in Working-Class Neighborhoods
Collectif Rosa Bonheur & translated by Oliver Waine
- 25 October 2019
The informal activities of street mechanics observed by Collectif Rosa Bonheur in northern France attest to a much...
Debates
What Does a Just Housing Plan Look Like? NYC and National Housing Movements Show the Way
Oksana Mironova & Sylvia Morse
- 22 October 2019
How could we develop a housing plan that is not rooted in capitalism? Oksana Mironova and Sylvia Morse describe how...
From the Field
Community Movements and Housing Liberalism: Reflections on the Bank of America Low‑Income Housing Competition
Avi Garelick
- 15 October 2019
Avi Garelick describes how the imperative for realism in affordable housing production conflicts with the goals of...
From the Field
Right(s) to the City in Hanoi
Divya Leducq & translated by Oliver Waine
- 11 October 2019
Over the past decade, urban change has accelerated and transformed the physical, social and symbolic landscapes of...
Reviews
Why School Securitization Fails. Lessons from Morrill and Musheno’s
Navigating Conflict
Andrés Besserer Rayas
- 8 October 2019
Navigating Conflict describes how pupils are able to address conflicts on their own, and how school securitization...
From the Field
National and Urban Politics Converge in Moscow: Will Local Activism Prevail?
Anna Zhelnina
- 1 October 2019
Recent elections in Moscow and across Russia reflect the convergence of local activism and national anti-Kremlin...
From the Field
Understanding the Causes of Eviction-Based Urban Displacement: Bringing Critical Urban Theory Back In
J. Revel Sims
- 24 September 2019
Close analysis of eviction patterns in Dane County, Wisconsin, between 2000 and 2016 suggests that tenant poverty...
Metropolitics
Summer Reading 2019
The Editorial Board
- 17 July 2019
The Editorial Board is now on summer break and will be posting new articles again starting on Tuesday, September...
From the Field
How Can Talking Save Trees?
Léo Magnin & translated by Oliver Waine
- 12 July 2019
In rural France, tree exchange systems seek to avoiding the felling that typically accompanies exchanges of parcels...
Debates
Can Cannabis Be Legalized in France Without Inflaming the
Banlieues
?
Christian Ben Lakhdar & Aymeric Reyre & translated by Oliver Waine
- 5 July 2019
France is a place of paradoxes: cannabis is widely consumed, and yet legalization does not seem to be on the cards,...
Reviews
Crisis Makes Heroes: Affordable Housing in New York City During and After a “Decade of Fire”
Susan Saegert
- 2 July 2019
Susan Saegert discusses the memoirs of two hard-fighting Bronx housing advocates, active at a particularly...
Reviews
Whose Bronx?:
Decade of Fire
Looks Back at a Complicated History of Neighborhood Abandonment and the Rise of Community Control in the South Bronx
Aly Hassell
- 2 July 2019
Decade of Fire, a new documentary film by lifelong South Bronx resident and first-time filmmaker Vivian Vázquez...
Reviews
Incarceration, Human Rights, and Health:
Life and Death in Rikers Island
Tawana Anthony
- 25 June 2019
Tawana Anthony applauds Homer Venters’ Life and Death in Rikers Island for exposing the institutional indifference...
From the Field
Who Cleans Paris? Garbage Collectors in Their Own Words
Coline Ferrant & Marie Mourad & translated by Oliver Waine
- 21 June 2019
Who are Paris’s garbage collectors? Coline Ferrant and Marie Mourad highlight the diverse working conditions covered...
Essays
From non-planning to cutting-edge policy: the transformation of waste management in Boston since the 1980s
Lily Baum Pollans
- 11 June 2019
Recycling and composting are hot topics. Lily Baum Pollans argues that Boston’s changing approach to waste...
From the Field
Moving Inside City Limits: The Urban Mobility of Undocumented Youth
Stephen P. Ruszczyk
- 4 June 2019
The urban context and public transportation shape how undocumented youths move within cities. In a comparison of...
From the Field
Made in China, Sold in West Africa
Anne Bouhali & Nora Mareï & Mamadou Dimé & translated by Oliver Waine
- 31 May 2019
From a small border post between Senegal and Mauritania, Anne Bouahli, Nora Mareï and Mamadou Dimé follow the journey...
Debates
Reclaim Value Capture for Equitable Urban Development
Laura Wolf-Powers
- 28 May 2019
Land-value capture (LVC) mechanisms have become a popular tool for fiscally constrained municipal policymakers....
Debates
Post–Amazon HQ2 Incentive Reform: We can have good deals—but not without transparency and meaningful public participation
Mary Donegan
- 21 May 2019
What does the collapse of New York City’s Amazon HQ2 deal mean for the future of economic development incentive...
Debates
Private Infrastructure and Urban Government: How Vélib’ Veered Off Course in Paris
Maxime Huré & translated by Oliver Waine
- 17 May 2019
When the city of Paris entrusted its decade-old bike-share service, Vélib’, to a new provider in January 2018,...
Interviews
Reinventing Segregation in Northern California: An Interview with Alex Schafran
Alex Schafran & Darian Razdar
- 14 May 2019
Darian Razdar interviews Alex Schafran about his new book Road to Resegregation: Northern California and the...
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From the Field
Moving Inside City Limits: The Urban Mobility of Undocumented Youth
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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
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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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