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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...
Essays
Urban Renewal in the USA: A Neoliberal Policy?
Thomas Kirszbaum & translated by Oliver Waine
- 3 May 2019
By allowing demolitions and evictions in well-located working-class neighborhoods, urban renewal is sometimes...
From the Field
How to Defend the Planet in Law
Valérie Cabanes & translated by Oliver Waine
- 19 April 2019
In the face of a growing raft of evidence that increasingly points to an imminent global catastrophe—the very...
Reviews
Planning Metropolitan Australia
Margot Abord de Chatillon
- 9 April 2019
In Planning Metropolitan Australia, Stephen Hamnett and Robert Freestone shed welcome light on the way Australia’s...
Interviews
Global Climate Crisis and the City: An Interview with Ashley Dawson
Ashley Dawson & Maura McGee
- 3 April 2019
An interview with Ashley Dawson, professor of English at the College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center,...
Debates
The Limits of the Accepted Orthodoxy on Rent Control
Loïc Bonneval & François Robert & translated by Oliver Waine
- 22 March 2019
In response to a recent critique of their work, Loïc Bonneval and François Robert defend their method and results. In...
Debates
Masculine Sports and “Respectable” Men in Working-Class Neighborhoods
Carine Guérandel & translated by Oliver Waine
- 12 March 2019
In a work rich in ethnographic material, Akim Oualhaci questions how socialization through sports contributes to...
Debates
Fixing the Accessibility Gap in Municipal Procurement
Emily Holloway & Nicholas Shatan
- 5 March 2019
How can minority- and women-owned businesses overcome structural disadvantages to building wealth through...
Debates
The Damage Inflicted by French Rent Controls between 1914 and 1948
Robert C. Ellickson & David Le Bris
- 26 February 2019
In an essay in Metropolitics, Loïc Bonneval questioned the consensus among economists that strict rent controls have...
From the Field
The Risk of “Foodwashing” in Calls for Innovative Urban Projects
Paula Macé Le Ficher & translated by Oliver Waine
- 22 February 2019
Paula Macé Le Ficher analyzes the ways in which farming and food issues have been integrated into calls for...
Reviews
Reclaiming the “Right to the City” Through Participatory Budgeting
Tyler James Olsen
- 19 February 2019
Participatory budgeting is growing in many cities around the world. Can it become a tool for urban dwellers to...
Essays
As NYC (Again) Considers Comprehensive Planning, History Offers Insight
K. C. Alvey
- 12 February 2019
Comprehensive planning can be a progressive governance tool, helping leaders keep broad principles like equity and...
Debates
Does Rent Control Prevent Investment in Real Estate?
Loïc Bonneval & translated by Oliver Waine
- 8 February 2019
While rent-control measures kept private rental housing in France affordable for much of the 20th century, it has...
Metropolitics
Navigating the City–State Divide: What’s Next for Progressive Elected Officials?
The Editorial Board
- 5 February 2019
Following on from our series on Progressive Mayors and Urban Social Movements, Metropolitics and the Urban...
Essays
The Treatment of “North Africans” in 1960s Urban Renewal in France
Janoé Vulbeau & translated by Oliver Waine
- 1 February 2019
While France’s 1960s urban renewal has been studied in terms of its effects on the working classes, its racial...
From the Field
Bare Mountaintops and Thirsty Cities: On California and its Snowpack
Sayd Randle
- 29 January 2019
Figuring how to represent the oncoming effects of climate change is a common challenge faced by whistleblowers and...
Reviews
Political Conservatism and the Working Classes in France
David Gouard & translated by Oliver Waine
- 25 January 2019
In her latest book, Le Vote FN au village (“The National Front Vote in the Village”), sociologist Violaine Girard...
Interviews
Teaching Art and the History of Tattoos at Rikers Island: An Interview with Tamara Santibanez
Lisa Jean Moore
- 22 January 2019
An interview with Tamara Santibanez, who teaches art and the cultural and social history of tattoos to youth...
From the Field
Saving Ivy Island: A Civil War in North Portland
Lauren Everett
- 15 January 2019
Lauren Everett examines two different approaches by community activists confronting change in a tight-knit Portland...
From the Field
Photography, Ethnography and Exhibitions in the Projects
Camilo León-Quijano & translated by Oliver Waine
- 11 January 2019
Pictures taken by photographer and sociologist Camilo León-Quijano with the initial aim of understanding the...
From the Field
Race and Progressive Politics in Chicago
John J. Betancur & Leonor Vanik
- 9 January 2019
The progressive movement in Chicago may not be as broad-minded as depicted in the academic literature. Racial...
Essays
Solidarity Economics and Rights to the Contested City in Belfast
Brendan Murtagh
- 19 December 2018
Is Lefebvre’s right to the city capable of extending the abstract meaning of formal “rights” to practical...
From the Field
Young People and Cars: A Case of Frustrated Desire?
Yoann Demoli & translated by Oliver Waine
- 30 November 2018
By comparing the results over time of a travel survey in western France, Yoann Demoli challenges the notion that...
Essays
Organizing Against
Projet Gentrification
: Housing Activism in a White-Supremacist Landscape in Montreal
Pierce Nettling
- 27 November 2018
Housing activists in Montreal and Quebec have successfully sought to secure tenant rights and social housing for...
Essays
Electricity in War-Torn Aleppo: A New Form of Urban Management
Youssef Diab & Abboud Hajjar & translated by Oliver Waine
- 23 November 2018
In Syria, electricity is one of the sectors most adversely affected by the war. New means of electricity...
From the Field
Backpedaling in Birmingham
William Grady Holt
- 20 November 2018
Despite the 2017 election of progressive, black mayors in major southern US cities, citizens who supported these...
Essays
Migrants’ Occupation of Lycée Jean Quarré: The Refugee Cause and the Cause of a Neighborhood
Isabelle Coutant & translated by Oliver Waine
- 16 November 2018
The flows of migrants seeking refuge in Europe since the summer of 2015 have led to temporary settlements—legal or...
From the Field
When Progressive Mayors Aren’t Enough: Homes for All and Trans-Local Social Movements
H. Jacob Carlson & Marnie Brady & Gianpaolo Baiocchi
- 13 November 2018
Progressive governments are often pulled away from their campaign promises by local growth-coalition interests or...
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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...
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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...
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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