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The Happy Few and the Unhappy Many: Endangered Artists in Global Cities
Boris Grésillon & translated by John @Barrett
- 15 June 2017
While participating or having participated in reshaping urban spaces, artists seem to be increasingly driven away...
From the Field
Rendering a Redeveloped France
Alex Schafran & Giorgia Aiello & Theresa Enright & Yohann Le Moigne
- 7 June 2017
As urban redevelopment projects remake the Greater Paris region, it is impossible to separate an avalanche of new...
From the Field
Citizen Outsider: Racism, Marginalization, and Immigration in France
Jean Beaman
- 31 May 2017
As refugee crises have emerged and immigration has increased in many regions of the world, several Western...
Reviews
Trends Global, Impact Local
John Shapiro
- 23 May 2017
Global wealth, immigration and capital flow have profoundly influenced local retail districts in world-class...
Debates
How Anti-Trans Bathroom Bills Hurt Girls and Women
C. Ray Borck
- 16 May 2017
Do recent “bathroom bills” protect girls and women from sexual predators? Sociologist C. Ray Borck shows how—contrary...
From the Field
The Evolution of New York City’s Black Neighborhoods
John Mollenkopf
- 9 May 2017
Especially in the central cities of the Northeast, neighborhoods that were once identified with black politics and...
Essays
American Shrinking Cities May Not Need to Grow
Deborah E. Popper & Frank J. Popper
- 25 April 2017
Successful cities are expected to continually grow, and when this doesn’t happen, city managers typically try to...
From the Field
The Actually Existing Markets of Shrinking Cities
Joshua Akers
- 18 April 2017
In a bid to halt urban decline, Michigan’s state government sought to create incentives for the creation of urban...
Essays
Urban Decline Is Not Natural
Jason Hackworth
- 11 April 2017
Is urban decline inevitable for cities affected by deindustrialization? While many scholars espouse the idea that...
From the Field
Overcoming Decline Through Graffiti? The Case of the Open Space Gallery in Halle (Saale)
Nina Gribat
- 4 April 2017
Open Space Gallery, a collective in Halle (Saale), Germany, turned the marginalized neighborhood of Freiimfelde...
From the Field
DIY Urbanism in Shrinking Cities: Or, What Neighbors Are Left With When Markets Withdraw and Governments Contract
Kimberley Kinder
- 27 March 2017
DIY culture is one of the zeitgeists of our time. Hipster home-brewing, swing-dance flash mobs, and pop-up maker...
Reviews
Between Green Paris and Immigrant Paris: The Politics of the Jardins d’Éole
Maura McGee
- 21 March 2017
As leaders in global cities reimagine and rebuild their metropolises as green capitals of the future, who has the...
Essays
Counterpublic Spaces and Movement-Building
Oksana Mironova
- 8 March 2017
To make themselves and their causes visible in traditional public arenas like streets and parks, social activists...
Debates
Building a Resilient and Equitable City: How to Advance Environmental Justice Through the
OneNYC
Plan
Eddie Bautista & Annel Hernandez & Juan Camilo Osorio & Pamela Soto
- 1 March 2017
Many of the challenges that cities face today stem from historic and entrenched systemic policies and processes...
Essays
The Arts as Fundamental—and Fragile—in Community Life
Andrew Zitcer & Julie Hawkins & Neville Vakharia
- 22 February 2017
Arts funding in America mirrors the inequality found in society more broadly. Yet amid persistent poverty and other...
Reviews
Immigrants and Transnational Citizenship
Fernando Aquino
- 14 February 2017
In spite of the loud fear-mongering about immigration and borders in the US and Europe, sociologists have found...
Interviews
“Build a Wall”: The Wrong Solution for Our Coastal Problems. An Interview with Jennifer Mattei
Jennifer H. Mattei & Lisa Jean Moore
- 7 February 2017
Metropolitics editorial committee member and sociologist Lisa Jean Moore interviewed biologist Jennifer Mattei, an...
From the Field
Estate Regeneration in London: Politics and Protest
Gerald Koessl
- 31 January 2017
Gerald Koessl describes dilemmas facing social-housing providers in London, where social housing often serves as...
From the Field
The Ongoing Housing Crisis and the Rust Belt Revolt for the GOP
Elora Lee Raymond
- 13 January 2017
In response to a tense post-election moment in the US, the Metropolitics editorial committee has initiated...
From the Field
Contesting Economies of Displacement and Dispossession
Joshua Akers
- 13 January 2017
Joshua Akers describes Detroit’s housing crisis, characterized by speculation, displacement, and increasingly...
Debates
On Our Own: Protecting and Developing Social Housing in the Trump Era
John Krinsky
- 13 January 2017
In response to a tense post-election moment in the US, the Metropolitics editorial committee has initiated...
Reviews
Citadels, Cores, and Confetti: Urban Festivals in the New Political Economy of the Music Industry
Johan Jansson
- 5 January 2017
How have changes in the music industry—especially regarding the way music is produced and consumed today—affected...
From the Field
Land Titling: A Tool, not a Panacea
Kareem Ibrahim & Deena Khalil
- 20 December 2016
The government of Egypt has long relied on land titling to limit the growth of informal urban residential...
Reviews
Closed Quarters
William Helmreich
- 13 December 2016
As we contemplate an era marked by official hostility to fair-housing laws, we would do well to heed the...
Essays
This is Not How it Ends: Post-Election Immigration Organizing in the United States
Folasade K. Famakinwa
- 7 December 2016
In response to a tense post-election moment in the US, the Metropolitics editorial committee has initiated...
Essays
Cracks Where the Light Gets in: Recent Legal Breakthroughs in Detention and Crimmigration in Canada
Petra Molnar & Stephanie J. Silverman
- 7 December 2016
While the criminalization of immigrants has been pervasive—leading many to adopt the word “crimmigration”—that does...
From the Field
Struggles over Rights and Representations in the Migrant Metropolis: Reverberations of the Trump Effect in the Global South
María V. Barbero
- 7 December 2016
While Latin America figures in US debates about immigration as a source of immigrants, Trump-style anti-immigrant...
Essays
Remaking Black Political Spaces for Black Liberation
Akira Drake Rodriguez
- 1 December 2016
What are the political implications of the redistribution of the Black population in the US? Akira Drake Rodriguez...
From the Field
Proclaiming “Veggie Pride” in Paris and New York
Elizabeth Cherry
- 22 November 2016
How do animal-rights activists promote vegetarianism? Many activists use environmental and health arguments, but...
Debates
On Clinton, Obama, Trump and the Failures of Liberal Urban Policy
James DeFilippis
- 15 November 2016
Many progressives are still in shock at the outcome of the recent US presidential election. In this contribution to...
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- 5 June 2020
The residents of France’s working-class neighborhoods, accused of exacerbating the coronavirus pandemic through...
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Sentinel Territories: A New Concept for Looking at Environmental Change
David Blanchon & Frédéric Keck & François-Michel Le Tourneau & Stéphane Tonnelat & Adriana Zuniga-Teran
- 8 May 2020
In this essay, the authors develop the concept of “sentinel territories,” or environments where humans can perceive...
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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...
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...
Interviews
Teaching Art and the History of Tattoos at Rikers Island: An Interview with Tamara...
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
Snowbirds’ Gift Economy in the Arizona Desert
David Frati
- 7 November 2017
Each year, 200,000 retired people spend the winter in and around the small town of Quartzsite, Arizona, in the...
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