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From the Field
Repositioning the state’s role through water politics in Mexico City’s informal settlements
Guillem Ramírez Chico
- 27 March 2018
Throughout the Mexico City metropolitan area, the struggle for water access often defines the relationship (or lack...
From the Field
The Cost of Affordability: Inclusionary Zoning and Displacement in East New York
James Shelton
- 20 March 2018
What are the impacts of New York City’s Mandatory Inclusionary Housing program upon low-income communities of color?...
From the Field
The Everyday Activism of Chicago’s Public High-School Football Coaches
Lawrence Johnson
- 13 March 2018
For several generations, high-school football programs have been an important part of the social fabric in...
Debates
Where Does Public Land Come From? Municipalization and Privatization Debates
Oksana Mironova & Samuel Stein
- 6 March 2018
This article illuminates contemporary land-use and disposition struggles in New York City by tracing the history of...
Essays
Looking Forward to 2020 While Looking Back: A Brief History of the US Census
Frank Donnelly
- 27 February 2018
As preparations for the 2020 census are under way in the United States, Frank Donnelly looks back at how the census...
Reviews
Nature’s Worth: Using Human Markets to Value Ecosystems’ Contributions
Anna Krol & Lisa Jean Moore
- 20 February 2018
Mattijs van Maasakkers’ The Creation of Markets for Ecosystem Services in the United States: The Challenge of...
Reviews
New York’s Soul for Sale: Raising the Rent on Lunch Counters and Counterculture
Benjamin Terrall
- 13 February 2018
Vanishing New York is Jeremiah Moss’s loving chronicle of the neighborhoods, characters, bars, and corner...
From the Field
“People of Color Are Not Props”: Black Branding and Community Resistance in Gentrifying Brooklyn
Maura McGee
- 6 February 2018
When a new white-owned upscale bar-restaurant in the gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights advertised...
Debates
The Cost of Good Intentions: Planning Gridlock in San Francisco
David Prowler
- 30 January 2018
The culture of protest that marked development and planning in San Francisco during the 1970s and 1980s was a...
Essays
Institutional Roadblocks to Achieving Environmental Justice Through Public Participation: The Case of CSO Control in US Cities
Rebekah Breitzer
- 24 January 2018
Rather than meaningfully involving representatives of environmental-justice communities in decisions about the...
Essays
Birdwatching in the City: A Case for Multispecies Tourism
Elizabeth Cherry & August Davidson-Onsgard & Lisa Jean Moore
- 16 January 2018
This essay analyzes the growth of urban avitourism—wildlife tourism focused on birds—as an activity that drives...
From the Field
Excluding Fast and Slow: Charlottesville’s Long Battle over Public Space
Frank Muraca
- 9 January 2018
The “Unite the Right” white-supremacist rally in downtown Charlottesville, Virginia, erupted into violence, killing...
Reviews
Making Their Own History: Squatters on Manhattan’s Lower East Side
Benjamin H. Shepard
- 19 December 2017
During the 1970s, when Manhattan’s Lower East Side was full of derelict real estate, activists laid claim to...
From the Field
Demystifying Urban Agriculture in Detroit
Flaminia Paddeu
- 14 December 2017
Urban agriculture projects in North American shrinking cities have been the subject of much media attention in...
From the Field
Mitigating urban decline through the compact city? Reflections on 15 years of urban recentralization policies in Japan
Sophie Buhnik
- 7 December 2017
To cope with a rapidly spreading and now pervasive phenomenon of urban decline, Japanese authorities have actively...
Debates
Storm Recovery: Local Efforts, Municipal Constraints, and New Ways Forward
Michael P. McCabe
- 28 November 2017
Climate change-induced storm surges and rising sea levels will steadily cause more damage to homes in low-lying...
From the Field
Dwelling—Living—Waiting: Transformations of a Refugee Reception Camp in Germany
Nina Riewe
- 21 November 2017
In wealthy German cities, which have received tens of thousands of refugees from the Middle East and Northern...
Debates
When Does Police Violence Cause Urban Unrest?
Cathy Lisa Schneider
- 14 November 2017
In the summer of 2014, police killed Michael Brown in Ferguson and Eric Garner in New York. Both men were black and...
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...
From the Field
Who Stays and Who Leaves? Residential Flows in French Shrinking Cities
Mathilde Rudolph
- 1 November 2017
In focusing on residential flows, Mathilde Rudolph seeks to shed light on the processes of urban decline at play in...
From the Field
No Lawful Status: Immigrant Youth in a State of Exclusion
Alexis Silver
- 24 October 2017
When the Trump administration rescinded the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, nearly 800,000...
From the Field
Shrinking to Survive? Demolition and Energy Transition in Small-Town France
Yoan Miot & Max Rousseau & translated by Oliver Waine
- 18 October 2017
Faced with a process of advanced decline, public and private actors in the town of Vitry-le-François, in eastern...
From the Field
Projecting Supply and Demand for Middle-Skill Occupations in US States and Metro Areas
James Orr & Ofronama Biu
- 10 October 2017
Analysts have long noted difficulties in quantifying and projecting skill mismatches in local labor markets....
From the Field
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...
From the Field
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...
From the Field
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...
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In the current political debates about discriminatory policing, there has been a lack of serious discussion of...
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