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Shrinking Cities in France: The Cumulative Effects of Decline

Nicolas Cauchi-Duval & Frédérique Cornuau & Mathilde Rudolph & translated by Oliver Waine - 4 October 2017

In France, different shrinking cities have followed different trajectories. They nevertheless all have certain...

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Shrinking Networks, Growing Solidarities? How to Design a New Social and Territorial Contract

Daniel Florentin - 27 September 2017

Utilities operators in a number of European cities, faced with significant reductions in consumption levels across...

From the Field

From “Black City” to “Slum City”: The Importance of Image in Saint-Étienne

Vincent Béal & Christelle Morel Journel & Valérie Sala Pala & translated by Oliver Waine - 20 September 2017

In December 2014, an article in the French daily newspaper Le Monde painted a highly negative portrait of the city...

Essays

Urban Shrinkage in France: An Invisible Issue?

Rémi Dormois & Sylvie Fol & translated by Oliver Waine - 13 September 2017

Although the phenomenon of urban shrinkage affects a significant number of French towns and cities, it is an issue...

From the Field

Swept Away: Public Work and the Politics of Employment in New York City’s Parks

John Krinsky & Maud Simonet - 6 September 2017

Upwards of 4,000 unionized civil-service workers once cleaned and maintained New York City’s parks. Today about...

From the Field

The Americanization of French social movements? Community organizing and its discontents in the banlieues

Julien Talpin - 29 June 2017

In this second of two articles, sociologist Julien Talpin discusses the importation to France of American...

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What’s the matter with the banlieues? Exploring the importation of the American community organizing tradition by French social movements

Julien Talpin - 22 June 2017

With the eclipse of the once-powerful Communist and Socialist Parties in France, and these parties’ traditional...

Essays

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...

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