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Institutional Readings on Zoning

Jamaal Green - 20 November 2020

A new edited volume on zoning approaches the subject as a tool of planning, part of a network of institutions and...

From the Field

The Contestations and Contradictions of the New York City Housing Authority’s Plan for Mixed-Income Redevelopment

Valerie E. Stahl - 10 November 2020

The New York City Housing Authority, faced with a capital shortfall of nearly $40 billion, is pursuing a series of...

Interviews

Political Organizing Beyond the Election: An Interview with Rosa Saavedra in North Carolina

Rosa Saavedra & Edwin Mayorga - 2 November 2020

Edwin Mayorga interviews organizer Rosa Saavedra from North Carolina. They discuss the political landscape and...

Interviews

Electoral Organizing in North Carolina: An Interview with Tomás Garduño

Tomás Garduño & Kate Selden - 27 October 2020

Kate Selden interviews Tomás Garduño, a social-justice organizer, about his work in Lenoir County, North Carolina,...

Reviews

Centering Equity in the Smart-Cities Project Dialogue

Margaret Cowell - 13 October 2020

In Uneven Innovation, Jennifer Clark argues that the technological innovations behind “smart cities” can cultivate...

Essays

The House is Ours: How Moms 4 Housing Challenged the Private-Property Paradigm

Lauren Everett - 6 October 2020

In the midst of a global housing affordability crisis that has been heightened by the Covid‑19 pandemic, it is time...

From the Field

Photographing Prison

Andrea Eichenberger & Carole Gayet-Viaud & Valérie Icard & translated by Oliver Waine - 2 October 2020

The photographs presented here were taken by Andrea Eichenberger at the former men’s and women’s prison in Beauvais,...

From the Field

Social Housing in Postcolonial Contexts

Clémence Léobal & translated by Oliver Waine - 25 September 2020

What happens when national social-housing policies developed in mainland France are transposed in overseas...

Essays

Shelters for Profit, Not People: The Rise of Tax-Credit Investment in US Cities

Renee Tapp - 22 September 2020

Tax-credit investment in US cities provides tax havens for investors, and squanders taxpayer resources on...

Debates

When Revolution Reinvents Public Space in Beirut

Ines Lakrouf & translated by Oliver Waine - 18 September 2020

In the fall of 2019, peaceful protesters in Lebanon were demanding an end to corruption and calling for a movement...

Essays

Create, Don’t Destroy: Laying the Foundation for a Public Discourse on Racial Justice in Germany

Janina L. Selzer - 15 September 2020

A night of violence left Stuttgart, a usually peaceful German city, with many unanswered questions. While...

Metropolitics

Summer Reading 2020

The Editorial Board - 20 July 2020

The Editorial Board is currently on summer break, but will be posting new articles again starting on Tuesday,...

Essays

Community-Rooted Organizations: Enhanced Accountability and Capacity Building for Community Development

Camryn Smith & Danielle Spurlock & Aliyah Abdur-Rahman & Kay Jowers - 10 July 2020

Communities in Partnership, in Durham, North Carolina, uses a “community-rooted” approach to its work that leverages...

Essays

The Right to the City: An Emancipating Concept?

Matthias Lecoq & translated by Oliver Waine - 3 July 2020

The radical approach formulated by Henri Lefebvre in 1968 criticized the failure to include inhabitants in the...

Essays

Consent-Based Social Dancing Spaces and the Right to the City

Rebecca Krisel - 30 June 2020

Consent-based programs in social dancing venues in New York City are an initial step in supporting social dancing...

Interviews

In Search of Grand Paris: Pierre Mansat on the Eve of the June 2020 Municipal Elections

Magda Maaoui & Pierre Mansat - 26 June 2020

Magda Maaoui interviews Pierre Mansat, former deputy mayor of Paris and a founding father of “le Grand Paris” (the...

Essays

Reflections on Retooling for the Covid‑19 Pandemic

Nichola Lowe & Tara Vinodrai - 19 June 2020

Factories are adapting to the new conditions and needs the coronavirus has introduced by retooling production lines...

Interviews

What Has Happened in Berlin Since 1989?

Thibaut de Ruyter & Olivier Gaudin & translated by Oliver Waine - 12 June 2020

Since the fall of the Wall in November 1989, Berlin has metamorphosed into one of the world’s most popular urban...

Essays

Homeless Theory and Research Collaboration: A Tribute to Nikita Price

Eric Goldfischer & Odilka Santiago - 9 June 2020

At a time when too many people are dying, Eric Goldfischer and Odilka Santiago remember Nikita Price of Picture the...

Debates

Covid-19, War, and Working-Class Neighborhoods

Pierre Gilbert & translated by Oliver Waine - 5 June 2020

The residents of France’s working-class neighborhoods, accused of exacerbating the coronavirus pandemic through...

Reviews

Europe and the Question of Social Class

Gilles Laferté & translated by Oliver Waine - 29 May 2020

A recent French work addresses the issue of social class in Europe, considering the different profiles and...

Reviews

Confronting Police Violence and an Unjust Justice System

Michele Graham - 19 May 2020

We publish Michele Graham’s review of the 2018 book The War on Neighborhoods: Policing, Prison, and Punishment in a...

Essays

Sentinel Territories: A New Concept for Looking at Environmental Change

David Blanchon & Frédéric Keck & François-Michel Le Tourneau & Stéphane Tonnelat & Adriana Zuniga-Teran - 8 May 2020

In this essay, the authors develop the concept of “sentinel territories,” or environments where humans can perceive...

From the Field

#IStayCamp. Health Conditions, Food Deprivation and Solidarity Problems in the First Days of Lockdown in the Roma Villages of Rome

Carlo Stasolla & Tommaso Vitale - 28 April 2020

Activist research in formal settlements of emergency housing in Rome during the Covid‑19 lockdown reveals how such...

From the Field

How the Youth of the Banlieues See the Gilets Jaunes

Ahmed & Baptiste & Hachimia & Jeremy & Karima & Lisa-Marie & Louiza & Thibaut & translated by Oliver Waine - 24 April 2020

Do the “Yellow Vests” and the youth of France’s banlieues share a common vision of the inequalities and discrimination...

Essays

Educating Tenants: A Historic Remit of Social Housing

Danièle Voldman & translated by Oliver Waine - 17 April 2020

In France, the professions of social worker and concierge both emerged in the early 20th century, and both...

Essays

When Measurement Matters: Displacement, Gentrification, Residential Mobility

H. Jacob Carlson - 14 April 2020

Scholarly studies of displacement resulting from gentrification are inconsistent in what they measure, and omit...

From the Field

When Memory is Confined: Politics of Commemoration on Avenida 26, Bogotá

Violante Torre - 7 April 2020

After more than five decades of conflict, the Colombian capital, Bogotá, is undergoing processes not just of...

Essays

The New Suburban Secession: A Postfascist Turn in Atlanta’s Cityhood Movement

Coleman Allums & Scott Markley - 10 March 2020

In this essay, Coleman Allums and Scott Markley analyze a suburban secessionist movement in Atlanta, Georgia. They...

From the Field

From Transit to Settlement. A Mexican Border Town’s Transition from a Transit Space to a Waiting Territory

Isabel Gil-Everaert - 3 March 2020

Tanapan, a border town in southern Mexico has long been a point of passage for Central American migrants bound for...

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