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Settlement policy in Israel. Transforming Jerusalem’s contested metropolitan landscape
Marco Allegra
- 12 September 2012
In Jerusalem, competition for land is central to the ongoing conflict. Marco Allegra shows how ideology can be less...
Metropolitics
Summer Wanderings 2012
The Editorial Board
- 6 July 2012
Metropolitics has packed its bags for the summer! Publications will resume on 12 September. In the meantime, why...
Interviews
The Design-Politics of American Public Housing
Sandra Parvu & Lawrence J. Vale
- 4 July 2012
Lawrence J. Vale goes back to the early days of American history to discuss public housing policy in the US: he...
Essays
Mapping votes and social inequalities: the case of Paris and its inner suburbs
Jean Rivière & translated by Oliver Waine
- 27 June 2012
Analysing local contexts can prove particularly enlightening when it comes to understanding electoral processes,...
Essays
Explaining the periurban right-wing vote: “social frustrations” of low-income households or the reshaping of the working classes?
Violaine Girard & translated by Oliver Waine
- 13 June 2012
There is a growing interest in voting patterns in periurban areas, which tend to lean to the right or even far...
Essays
Maps and opinion polls
Joël Gombin & Jean Rivière & translated by Oliver Waine
- 6 June 2012
Presidential elections – a crucial moment in the democratic life of France – generate all sorts of analyses that seek...
Reviews
The new spaces of consumption
Andrea Mubi Brighenti
- 30 May 2012
Recent retail spaces are giving a new shape to our everyday environment. Kärrholm proposes new concepts to better...
Essays
The media construction of the suburbs in France: looking back on the 2007 presidential campaign
Jean Rivière & Sylvie Tissot & translated by Oliver Waine
- 23 May 2012
In the run-up to the recent French presidential elections, the question of la banlieue – the (generally poor)...
Debates
The digital city: challenges for the future
Serge Wachter & translated by Oliver Waine
- 16 May 2012
What is the impact of digital technology on the city and its architecture? Serge Wachter analyses the way in which...
Debates
Organic school meals: what remains of the pioneer spirit?
Leïla Kebir & translated by Oliver Waine
- 9 May 2012
The concept of “organic canteens” has proved remarkably successful, buoyed by the Grenelle de l’Environnement (the...
From the Field
Haiti after the earthquake: camps, shanty towns and housing shortages
Gerry L’Étang & translated by Oliver Waine
- 2 May 2012
In Haiti, in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, public squares became the sites of makeshift camps to provide...
Debates
From Vélib’ to Autolib’: private corporations’ involvement in urban mobility policy
Maxime Huré & translated by Oliver Waine
- 25 April 2012
In December 2011 – four years after the launch of Vélib’ – Paris inaugurated Autolib’, the largest system of...
Debates
Water, sanitation, energy, waste: the dawn of the network-free city?
Sylvain Petitet & translated by Oliver Waine
- 18 April 2012
Negative externalities, changes in society and technological innovation all call into question the industrial model...
Essays
Quotas of foreigners in social housing: a legacy of the Algerian War? Les Canibouts, Nanterre (1959–1968)
Marie-Claude Blanc-Chaléard & translated by Oliver Waine
- 11 April 2012
Was it better to concentrate or disperse Algerians during the Algerian War? In the course of the conflict, both...
From the Field
Housing the “harkis”: long-term segregation
Abderahmen Moumen & translated by Oliver Waine
- 4 April 2012
The end of the Algerian War saw the arrival en masse of thousands of pieds-noirs and harkis in mainland France....
Essays
“Cités de transit”: the urban treatment of poverty during decolonisation
Muriel Cohen & Cédric David & translated by Oliver Waine
- 28 March 2012
At a time of profound housing crisis in the 1950s, cités de transit were adopted as a means of rehousing Algerian...
Essays
“Bidonvilles”: from colonial policy to the Algerian War
Françoise de Barros & translated by Oliver Waine
- 21 March 2012
The term bidonville (literally a town built of oil drums) originated in North Africa in the 1930s and came into use...
Reviews
From home to the workplace: “Mad Men” or the irresistible rise of women
Nicole Rudolph
- 14 March 2012
Mad Men is often viewed as the ultimate sexist TV series. Through an analysis of the behavior of men and women at...
Essays
The police and the “Algerian medinas” in France. Argenteuil, 1957–1962
Emmanuel Blanchard & translated by Oliver Waine
- 7 March 2012
Fifty years after the end of the Algerian War of Independence, it should not be forgotten that this conflict was...
Reviews
Jerusalem: a history of water
Aude Signoles & translated by Oliver Waine
- 29 February 2012
The history of the Holy City is not just one of religious and national conflict. It is also a history of water, a...
From the Field
Gay populations as gentrifiers in Paris and Montreal
Colin Giraud & translated by Oliver Waine
- 22 February 2012
Are “gay villages” a sign of gentrification? A comparison between the Marais in Paris – an area gentrified before...
Debates
Local food: a concrete Utopia
Christian Deverre & Jean-Baptiste Traversac & translated by Oliver Waine
- 15 February 2012
Roland Vidal recently invited us to look beyond short food-supply chains and rethink local links between cities and...
Reviews
Barcelona: local mobilisation or global desperation?
Charlotte Vorms & translated by Oliver Waine
- 8 February 2012
What is the history behind today’s protest movements involving the occupation of urban public spaces? In the film...
Debates
The risk of nuclear accident: a territorial approach
Ambroise Pascal & translated by Oliver Waine
- 1 February 2012
How many people live in the vicinity of French nuclear power stations? Recent events – notably in Japan, but also in...
Debates
Towers of Power
Jean-Marie Huriot & translated by Oliver Waine
- 25 January 2012
Following on from Manuel Appert’s contribution, Jean-Marie Huriot discusses what is at stake in the skyscraper race....
Debates
Shale Gas: Local Democracy vs Central Government
Pascal Terrasse & translated by Oliver Waine
- 18 January 2012
Without local consultation, the French government has granted permission for the exploration of shale gas plays...
Debates
Why isn’t there enough housing in France?
Jean-Claude Driant & translated by Oliver Waine
- 11 January 2012
The idea that France is experiencing a serious housing deficit, requiring a massive home-building policy is the...
From the Field
Transport and urban planning in Rome: an unholy marriage?
Aurélien Delpirou & translated by Oliver Waine
- 4 January 2012
Aurélien Delpirou brings a new perspective to the debate initiated by Luis Santos y Ganges. He highlights the fact...
Debates
The difficulties of housing the Chinese “sandwich class”
Jie Chen & Bernard Vorms & translated by Oliver Waine
- 21 December 2011
In China, young people from the middle classes are said to belong to a “sandwich class”: they do not have enough...
Debates
Skyline policy: the Shard and London’s high-rise debate
Manuel Appert & translated by Oliver Waine
- 14 December 2011
At a time when major cities are racing to build higher than ever, and when the construction of skyscrapers in...
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