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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...
Debates
Let Bodegas Be Bodegas
Dory Thrasher
- 20 September 2016
A new rule proposed by the US Department of Agriculture would impose new stocking rules on food stores that accept...
From the Field
“We Are the Scene”: Alternative Art Economies in Bushwick
Mary Kosut
- 13 September 2016
Artists and art communities are essential to the cultural life of cities. In New York City, artists have created...
From the Field
The French Republic and the Paris Spring
Gregory Smithsimon
- 6 September 2016
Has the French Spring arrived yet? Gregory Smithsimon documents La Nuit Debout, a self-named social movement that...
Metropolitics
To our French colleagues and readers
The Editorial Board
- 27 July 2016
We stand in with you in solidarity and grief in the aftermath of the recent attacks in Nice and...
Metropolitics
Open Letter Condemning the Purge of Academic Institutions in Turkey
The Editorial Board
- 22 July 2016
The editorial board of Metropolitics invites its readers to join it in its support of the following petition (link...
Reviews
Evictions and Poverty
Hilary Botein
- 28 June 2016
Matthew Desmond’s Evicted has drawn much-needed attention to the under-studied problem of unsubsidized rental...
Essays
The Crisis of Geographical Imagination in Turkey
Luka Lucić
- 21 June 2016
Ethnic, nationalistic and social tensions are at an all-time high in Turkey, exacerbated by the re‑emergence of the...
From the Field
Securing Land Tenure in Egypt: Who Needs Registered Titles?
David Sims
- 14 June 2016
David Sims challenges popular wisdom on property-rights regimes in non-Western nations by questioning the relevance...
Essays
The Wrecker’s Pick. The Rationales and Hidden Agendas of Urban Renewal in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Alain Faure & translated by Christina @Mitrakos
- 7 June 2016
Alain Faure, a scholar of the social history of cities, puts urban renewal into perspective. He questions the...
Reviews
On Being Black and Poor in a Small City
Peter Moskos
- 24 May 2016
No Way Out, Waverly Duck’s recent examination of how African Americans in an impoverished small city construct a...
From the Field
The Flea Market of Marseille
Michèle Jolé & William Kornblum
- 17 May 2016
Marseille’s flea market (“marché aux puces”) lies at the heart of a vast urban renewal project that could end up wiping...
Debates
Technocratic Values and Uneven Development in the “Smart City”
Taylor Shelton & Jennifer Clark
- 10 May 2016
In the US, the idea of “smart cities” is coming to dominate federal government involvement in, and funding for, urban...
From the Field
“Harriet Jacobs didn’t learn to read and write so that she could get an A”
C. Ray Borck
- 3 May 2016
Confronted by school systems that persistently reproduce race- and class-based educational inequality, how can...
Debates
More Affordable Transit Fares
Alexis Perrotta
- 26 April 2016
Low-income urban residents often struggle to afford transit fares. Seattle recently established half-fares for poor...
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...
Reviews
The Intimate Politics of Public Housing’s Demise
Dory Thrasher
- 12 April 2016
Many ethnographies have documented the physical and institutional fragility of America’s public housing. Writing in...
From the Field
Where Did the Bees Go? New York City Beekeeping Amid Ecological Crises
Mary Kosut & Lisa Jean Moore
- 5 April 2016
The decline and extinction of bees and other pollinators threatens the global food supply. Residents in cities like...
From the Field
Childhood Spent Waiting at the Gate
Adeline Perrot & translated by Oliver @Waine
- 1 April 2016
The recent opening of a holding area for “unaccompanied foreign minors” at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport reflects a...
Reviews
Neighborhood Change and the Right to the City
Adam Tanaka
- 29 March 2016
New York City’s Stuyvesant Town is the largest housing development in Manhattan, and also one of the most...
Essays
In Havana, Tourism Development Before the US Tsunami
Lily M. Hoffman
- 22 March 2016
The easing of Cuban–US relations will likely bring a new wave of tourists to Cuba. Although the Cuban government...
Debates
Streetcars Named Desire
Luc Gwiazdzinski & translated by Oliver @Waine
- 15 March 2016
Luc Gwiazdzinski provides an original and critical analysis of the changes affecting today’s cities and contemporary...
Reviews
Dawn of the Indebted: Zombie Neoliberalism Hits the Big Screen
Desiree Fields & Tom Gillespie
- 8 March 2016
As the tremors of the 2008 crumbling US housing market were felt around the world, even the most astute couldn’t...
From the Field
“Enfantillages”: photographing children (and their parents) in public space
Fabien Desage & translated by Oliver @Waine
- 4 March 2016
Why are children photogenic? Political sociologist Fabien Desage reflects upon his practices as a photographer and...
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Covid-19, War, and Working-Class Neighborhoods
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- 5 June 2020
The residents of France’s working-class neighborhoods, accused of exacerbating the coronavirus pandemic through...
Essays
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...
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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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