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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...
Debates
Impossible Compliance: Policing as Violent Struggle over Bodies and Urban Space
Michelle Billies
- 1 March 2016
The absence of charges brought in the case of a police murder of a Black lesbian in front of the homeless shelter...
From the Field
The complex representations of working-class residential towers
Rachid Kaddour & translated by Oliver Waine
- 26 February 2016
Rachid Kaddour’s analysis of the trajectory of perceptions of the Plein‑Ciel tower in Saint‑Étienne in south-eastern...
From the Field
A Geography of Revolt in Alexandria, Egypt’s Second Capital
Youssef El Chazli
- 23 February 2016
How does the layout of a city affect how protest unfolds? How does urban space constrain and enable the choices...
From the Field
The Hollowing-Out of New York City’s Industrial Zones
Tarry Hum
- 16 February 2016
At a November 2015 press conference, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio vowed to take action to ensure that firms in the...
Essays
Urban renewal and the “defensible space” model: the growing impact of security issues on the way our cities develop
Camille Gosselin & translated by Oliver Waine
- 12 February 2016
In transforming the urban planning and architecture of social-housing estates, urban-renewal policies are not just...
Essays
Immigrant Growth Machines: Metropolitan Reinvention in Los Angeles
Melody Chiong & Jan Lin
- 9 February 2016
Building on Logan and Molotch’s highly influential concept of the urban “growth machine,” Jan Lin and Melody Chiong...
From the Field
How Children Cope When Home is a Hotel
Erwan Le Méner & translated by Christina Mitrakos
- 5 February 2016
Emergency housing in social hotels is affecting a growing number of families in the Paris region. How does this...
Essays
When Cities Fail, Babies Die
Monica J. Casper
- 2 February 2016
Detroit, Michigan is often identified as the worst city in the United States, with excessive poverty, racism, and...
Essays
Democratic public spaces in the face of terrorism
Carole Gayet-Viaud & translated by Oliver Waine
- 29 January 2016
The collective harm inflicted by the terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday 13 November 2015 results in part from the...
Essays
Parallel Lives? Elena Ferrante’s Naples and My West New Rochelle
Bella Mirabella
- 26 January 2016
Elena Ferrante’s acclaimed Neapolitan novels, which trace the lives of two girls born in a working class district in...
Reviews
“Grands Ensembles”: Retracing a History of Rejection
Stéphane Füzesséry & translated by Oliver Waine
- 15 January 2016
From its very beginnings, the urban model of the “grand ensemble” – the large-scale high-rise housing estate – has...
From the Field
The Boys of Sarajevo’s War Tunnel
Luka Lucić
- 12 January 2016
What are the impacts of war upon young people’s psychological development? Research with young men who survived...
Debates
Reskilling Urban Manufacturing: Workforce Solutions from the Inside Out
Nichola Lowe
- 15 December 2015
In the United States, a four-year college education has gradually come to be assumed as a prerequisite for entry...
From the Field
Beyond the stadium: how “ultra” supporters fit into the urban space
Bérangère Ginhoux & translated by Oliver Waine
- 11 December 2015
Based on an ethnographic survey conducted in Saint-Étienne, in south-eastern France, Bérangère Ginhoux shows how the...
Debates
Understanding São Paulo’s Bicycle Wars
Derek Pardue
- 8 December 2015
In São Paulo, Brazil, bike lanes are a new phenomenon in a city historically dominated by automobiles. In the...
From the Field
Social Diversity in Gentrified Neighborhoods: Child’s Play?
Jean-Yves Authier & Sonia Lehman-Frisch & translated by Christina Mitrakos
- 4 December 2015
How do children develop relationships? Do they meet children from socio-economic backgrounds other than their own?...
Reviews
Beyond “planetary urbanization”: recasting contemporary urban research
Matthieu Giroud (†) & translated by Oliver Waine
- 27 November 2015
We were profoundly shocked to learn of the death of Matthieu Giroud, a victim of the attacks of 13 November in...
From the Field
Federal Anti-Segregation Milestones Demand Local Mobilization
Justin Steil
- 24 November 2015
In June 2015, the US Supreme Court affirmed a legal tool that stands to hold municipalities and lenders accountable...
Debates
To Prevent Worsening Inequality, Put Affluent Neighborhoods on NYC Rezoning List
Moses Gates
- 17 November 2015
Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning is meant to boost the affordable housing supply and create more economically...
Essays
The Tokyo skyline, or the hidden order behind opportunistic construction
Raphaël Languillon-Aussel & translated by Oliver Waine
- 13 November 2015
Behind the apparent disorder, Tokyo’s current skyline in fact complies with complex rules. While the first towers in...
Essays
Bargain hunting in the “small-commodity city” of Yiwu, China
Alison Hulme
- 10 November 2015
China’s rise in the global economy has been largely based on the manufacturing of both cheap and expensive goods....
Debates
A flat-rate travel card for the Paris region: revolution or illusion?
Marie-Hélène Massot & translated by Oliver Waine
- 6 November 2015
Fare “dezoning” in the Paris region – a key reform to mark the end of Jean-Paul Huchon’s term as leader of...
Debates
Artists and Industry: Friends or Foes?
Paul Parkhill
- 3 November 2015
Anti-gentrification activists have castigated artists’ lofts as the vanguard of gentrification, while cities have...
Essays
Thirty Years of Urban Sociology
Christian Topalov & translated by Oliver Waine
- 30 October 2015
What is urban sociology in France? Christian Topalov, one of the key players in the history of this discipline,...
From the Field
Civic Innovation and Creative Campaigns: How Fresh Ideas Are Compromising Local Democracy
Stephanie Savell & Gianpaolo Baiocchi & Elizabeth A. Bennett & Alissa Cordner & Peter Taylor Klein
- 27 October 2015
The trend of civic innovation in contemporary activism relies much on modern tools of communication as a...
Essays
The “Dozois Plan”: lessons learned from urban-renewal policies and the history of urban planning in Montreal
Frédéric Mercure-Jolette & translated by Oliver Waine
- 23 October 2015
Urban-renewal policies justify their actions by decrying neighbourhoods earmarked for demolition. Frédéric...
Essays
Managing New York City’s Rental Housing Catastrophe: The Once and Future Potential of Tax-Foreclosed Properties
John Krinsky
- 20 October 2015
New York City faces a rental housing crisis, with homelessness at record levels, more than a million households...
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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...
From the Field
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In the constellation of anti-immigrant politics in the United States, groups like the Minutemen, civilians who...
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The Political Aesthetics of Drag
Shaka McGlotten
- 13 October 2015
Drag, or the diverse art form and culture of performance that typically plays with gender and sex, is an integral...
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Disarm the Police
Gregory Smithsimon
- 29 September 2015
In the current political debates about discriminatory policing, there has been a lack of serious discussion of...
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