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Arts Districts Without Artists
Meghan Ashlin Rich
- 23 March 2015
Numerous studies have examined gentrification’s harmful effects for low-income residents, but few examine the...
Essays
Programming play into public space?
Sonia Curnier & translated by Oliver Waine
- 20 March 2015
With the rise of the “ludic city”, the work of Roger Caillois and Marc Breviglieri allows us to question the...
From the Field
The Massive Death of China’s Urban Villages
Stefan Al
- 17 March 2015
As expanding Chinese cities engulfed their hinterlands, chengzhoncun—villages within the city—became an affordable...
Debates
The Right to Public Space
Gregory Smithsimon
- 10 March 2015
Many of the commonly defended human rights (freedom of expression, of assembly, of information, of movement, etc.)...
From the Field
Public authorities and Roma populations in Turin
Elisabetta Rosa & translated by Oliver Waine
- 5 March 2015
For the last three decades or so, European cities have had to deal with the issue of land occupation by migrant...
From the Field
The Other Side of Austin, Texas
Caitlyn Collins & Katherine Jensen & Kristine Kilanski & Javier Auyero
- 2 March 2015
Despite a booming economy, Austin, Texas, is a city where inequalities persist and grow in the shadow of neoliberal...
Reviews
Northern Mafias: the territorial spread of organised crime in Italy
Fabrizio Maccaglia & translated by Oliver Waine
- 26 February 2015
The presence of Mafia organisations outside the Mezzogiorno, long downplayed by the Italian public authorities, has...
Reviews
Constructing Crises
Marla Nelson
- 23 February 2015
A new book by Kevin Fox Gotham and Miriam Greenberg foregrounds the disturbing parallels between two seemingly...
Essays
Starchitects: walking the line between individuality and conformity
Géraldine Molina & translated by Oliver Waine
- 19 February 2015
The stars of the worlds of architecture and urban planning are prime targets of research, with the aim of...
From the Field
Paying to Play in the Mission District
Naomi Adiv
- 16 February 2015
Naomi Adiv unpacks a viral video showing an argument between longtime San Francisco residents and “dot-commers” over...
Essays
Transport as both a function and a facilitator of metropolitan development?
Aurélien Delpirou & translated by Oliver Waine
- 12 February 2015
In Paris, Lyon and Marseille, the development of public transport is a central element of the metropolitan projects...
From the Field
Mass-Producing the World’s Factory
Stefan Al
- 9 February 2015
The economic transformation of China into a global manufacturing mecca has emptied many rural areas, creating tens...
Essays
“I, you, he, she, we are all Charlie”: what feeling concerned means
Gérôme Truc & translated by Oliver Waine
- 5 February 2015
The attacks that took place in Paris in early January have affected French society in a way never seen before, as...
From the Field
When Predator Becomes Prey: Rental Housing in Low-Income Minority Neighborhoods
Clément Théry
- 2 February 2015
In the growing low-income rental market, predator and prey roles can shift, as landlords and tenants alike can fall...
Debates
“Gentrification or ghetto”: making sense of an intellectual impasse
Anne Clerval & Mathieu Van Criekingen & translated by Oliver Waine
- 29 January 2015
The debate on the causes, effects and extent of the “gentrification” of working-class neighbourhoods in the central...
Debates
Interrupting Inequality: Crisis and Opportunity in Low-Income Housing Policy
Susan Saegert
- 26 January 2015
Inequality in the United States is deeply rooted in issues of property ownership, wealth, race and class....
From the Field
In the Paris metro, hell is other people
Luke Haywood & Martin Koning & translated by Oliver Waine
- 15 January 2015
In the medical field, it is not unusual for remedies prescribed to combat a particular condition to have...
Essays
Looking Backward into the Future of New York
Ted Steinberg
- 12 January 2015
Can the lesson of Hurricane Sandy dampen the enthusiasm of New York City’s growth machine? Ted Steinberg, author of...
Debates
Is rurality a thing of the past?
Philippe Dubourg & translated by Oliver Waine
- 8 January 2015
In the era of globalisation and metropolisation, is rurality an old-fashioned concept, a thing of the past? The...
Debates
The Age of the Renter
Tony Roshan Samara
- 5 January 2015
Not all Americans own their home. In fact, more and more of them rent it. More and more of them also end up paying...
Essays
Christmas Markets and Department-Store Window Displays: Examples of Retailtainment
Nathalie Lemarchand & translated by Oliver Waine
- 18 December 2014
The function and fate of high-street shops are the subject of discussion and debate within retail firms. Where...
From the Field
The Horseshoe Crab, our Environment and our Health
Lisa Jean Moore
- 15 December 2014
Will we erase all animal diversity in the name of modernity, or will we follow the hints given by the study of the...
Reviews
The “ordinary” Italian suburbs: exploring the apartment buildings of the middle classes
Thomas Pfirsch & translated by Oliver Waine
- 11 December 2014
Through the detailed histories of 23 apartment buildings and their inhabitants, a team of historians and architects...
Essays
A Right to the Suburb? New Urbanism, Public Space, and the Law
Anthony Maniscalco
- 8 December 2014
The American suburb is changing. It is racially and economically diverse. Its sterile spaces are being redesigned...
From the Field
Bypassing the city: divisions and divergences in Antananarivo
Catherine Fournet-Guérin & translated by Oliver Waine
- 4 December 2014
In a context of global competition, major projects are the order of the day, including in the global South. The new...
From the Field
Participatory Budgeting in New York City
Celina Su
- 1 December 2014
Over the last four years, participatory budgeting has spread from one to more than 45 cities in the US. Reporting...
Essays
Is there a model for sustainable urban planning?
Claire Carriou & Olivier Ratouis & translated by Oliver Waine
- 27 November 2014
Claire Carriou and Olivier Ratouis reconsider the theoretical sources of sustainable urban planning from the...
Reviews
Detroit: Origins of the Urban Crisis Revisited
Andrew Newman
- 24 November 2014
The recent reprint of Sugrue’s classic history of Detroit’s urban crisis highlights the roots of the city’s present...
Reviews
Entry into the Anthropocene
André Micoud & translated by Oliver Waine
- 20 November 2014
Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, backed up by an impressive amount of data, trace the history of our...
From the Field
The Abattoir’s Call: At the Margins of New York City’s Foodie Movement
Richard E. Ocejo
- 17 November 2014
Food-conscious urban consumers often ask their butcher where their meat comes from. But how many wonder about the...
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Frederick Wiseman’s fortieth documentary film, In Jackson Heights (2015), returns to an urban theme explored in...
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Looking Inward, Across the Border
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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
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- 29 September 2015
In the current political debates about discriminatory policing, there has been a lack of serious discussion of...
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