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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...

From the Field

A Welcoming (and Sometimes Not) America: Immigrant Integration in the New South

Anna Joo Kim - 1 November 2016

In a departure from traditional patterns of migrant settlement in the US, a cluster of ethnoburbs is emerging in...

Reviews

Restless Cities

Laura Wolf-Powers - 25 October 2016

The world of downtown real-estate development seems to have a life of its own, independent of demand for space and...

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...

Essays

Overcoming the “Scalar Stalemate” in Community Development

Evan Casper-Futterman - 14 October 2016

When urban practitioners undertake local projects, they are often working not only to achieve material gains in...

From the Field

Liberty, Community and Religion: A Hispano-Moroccan Family in Andalusia

Alain Cottereau & translated by Oliver Waine - 11 October 2016

In Europe, the relationship that migrants originating from the Arab Muslim world – whether first- or...

From the Field

Building a Multifaceted Campaign for Public Higher Education

Stephen Brier & Michael Fabricant - 4 October 2016

In their new book, Austerity Blues: Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education, Michael Fabricant and Stephen...

Debates

Climate Action Plans and the “Climate-Just” City

Cecelia Walsh-Russo - 27 September 2016

In the face of major climatic changes, more and more US cities are developing climate action plans. But while these...

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