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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...
Debates
Kanal İstanbul: a “crazy project” serving political ambitions
Yoann Morvan & translated by Oliver Waine
- 7 December 2011
The current proliferation of mega-projects in the Istanbul metropolitan area is both undeniable and impressive. The...
Reviews
The history of social housing revisited
Christine Mengin & translated by Oliver Waine
- 30 November 2011
Since the end of the 19th century, how have residents’ wishes been taken into account by the public authorities...
Reviews
The Triumph of Density and the Agony of Sprawl
Richard E. Ocejo
- 23 November 2011
The city is more and more often hailed as the paradigmatic form of a new sustainable development, both economic and...
Reviews
What future for periurban communities: clubbisation or differentiated social dynamics?
Violaine Girard & translated by Oliver Waine
- 16 November 2011
In La ville émiettée, Éric Charmes describes the phenomenon of “clubbisation” in towns and villages in the outer...
Debates
Is rising home ownership bad for employment?
Jean Bosvieux & Bernard Coloos & translated by Oliver Waine
- 9 November 2011
Homeowners everywhere are less mobile than tenants. However, does home ownership have a negative effect on...
Debates
The desirable city or the sustainable city: what is the role of green spaces?
Jean-François Guet & translated by Birdwell Institute
- 2 November 2011
While green spaces are in great demand among city-dwellers, their presence alone is not enough to make the city...
Essays
Beyond dreams of village life: residential clubs and clubbisation
Éric Charmes & translated by Oliver Waine
- 26 October 2011
At a time of increasing “metropolisation” and ever greater pressure on mobility, how can neighbourhood attachments be...
Debates
Participatory democracy in large-scale contexts: citizen participation in urban planning in Paris and Córdoba
Héloïse Nez & translated by Oliver Waine
- 19 October 2011
Participatory urban planning often comes up against the question of scale, with local councillors accepting to...
Essays
Well-being in the Paris region: widening regional disparities despite overall improvement
Lise Bourdeau-Lepage & Élisabeth Tovar & translated by Eric Rosencrantz
- 12 October 2011
Has the socio-spatial divide widened over the past 10 years in the Paris region? Using an original method inspired...
Reviews
Post-2006 reconstruction in Lebanon: a laboratory for new urban planning practices
Éric Verdeil & translated by Eric Rosencrantz
- 5 October 2011
Modes of urban planning often develop at an accelerated pace during periods of reconstruction. Lebanon in the...
Debates
The Fantastical Accounts of Grand Paris
Frédéric Léonhardt & translated by Eric Rosencrantz
- 28 September 2011
After four years of ongoing debate, the French government’s Grand Paris scheme has spawned a large-scale mass...
Debates
Integrating the train into the city: some thoughts from Spain
Luis Santos y Ganges & translated by Eric Rosencrantz
- 21 September 2011
Are inner-city railways condemned to form boundaries or barriers within the city? Based on a critique of the...
Debates
Designing protests in urban public space
Tali Hatuka
- 14 September 2011
Social and political protests in urban public spaces are multiplying in cities all around the world. Tali Hatuka...
Metropolitics
Summer Break 2011
The Editorial Board
- 20 July 2011
Metropolitics is on vacation. Publications will resume on September 12th. In the meantime, we propose a selection...
Reviews
City Words: An Invitation to Travel
Yves Grafmeyer
- 13 July 2011
L’aventure des mots de la ville (The Adventure of City Words Through Time, Languages, Societies), tells the story of...
Debates
New Orleans as a Rust Belt City?
Robert J. S. Ross
- 6 July 2011
New Orleans needs to recover not only from the 2005 catastrophic flooding of Katrina, but also from a much more...
Debates
For a Critique of the Liberal Foundations of American Cities
David Imbroscio
- 29 June 2011
Profoundly touched by the consequences of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, David Imbroscio seeks concrete...
From the Field
New Orleans Post-Katrina: the Uses of the Web in Times of Crisis
Jean Samuel Bordreuil & translated by Oliver Waine
- 24 June 2011
What is the role of the internet media, particularly blogs, in mobilizing action in the aftermath of a major...
From the Field
Making sustainability public: the bayou observation deck in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans
Stéphane Tonnelat & translated by Eric Rosencrantz
- 20 June 2011
How can the residents of a flooded neighborhood in New Orleans, torn between reconstruction imperatives and...
Debates
Who cares about care? Health care rationalization and the demise of a public hospital after Katrina
Anne M. Lovell
- 8 June 2011
Charity Hospital served the poor and uninsured in one of the US’s unhealthiest cities. Though repaired after...
From the Field
The Build/No-Build Line
Richard Campanella
- 1 June 2011
The Katrina flooding of 2005 ignited a debate between abandonists and maintainers. Should the city move to higher...
Debates
Bienville’s Dilemma: New Orleans Between Site and Situation
Richard Campanella
- 25 May 2011
Ever since its founding at the mouth of the Mississippi river, New Orleans is the result of a delicate compromise...
From the Field
The School of Urban Renewal: A New Ideological Mishmash?
Claire Carriou & Yankel Fijalkow
- 18 May 2011
The Borloo Act of 2003 is said to have marked a major turning-point in French policy concerning so-called “critical”...
Debates
The (mis)measurement of periurbanization
Anne Lambert & translated by Eric Rosencrantz
- 11 May 2011
(Peri)urban sprawl is unanimously decried as a cause for economic, environmental and social concern. And yet...
Interviews
Drug-consumption rooms in the city?
Laurent El Ghozi & Nadine Roudil & translated by Oliver Waine
- 4 May 2011
Following a number of experiments in Geneva and Bilbao, the question of whether supervised injection centres should...
Debates
The Wealth of Local Currencies
Sophie Donzel & translated by Eric Rosencrantz
- 27 April 2011
Following up on Smaïn Laacher’s essay on Local Exchange Trading Systems (LETS), Sophie Donzel, deputy mayor of...
Debates
Access to home-ownership: what are the effects of the economic crisis?
Bernard Vorms & translated by Oliver Waine
- 20 April 2011
A 70% home-ownership rate? This is the stated objective of the reform that has recently come into effect in France,...
Debates
The Handicaps of Handicapped Housing
Catherine Carpentier & Emmanuelle Colboc & translated by Eric Rosencrantz
- 13 April 2011
Since February 2005, all new and renovated housing in France has to meet standards of accessibility for the...
Debates
Suburbanization as a Project
Martin Vanier & translated by Christina Mitrakos
- 6 April 2011
Experts and policies fail to recognize the contradictions that urban sprawl creates and rarely go beyond...
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