Metropolitics

For These Old Bus Stations, It's Not the End of the Line

2026-03-13T03:43:14Z

The streamlined depots built by Greyhound in the middle of the 20th century reflected a more optimistic era for bus travel. A lucky few are finding new uses.

- Metropolitics / CityLab

Municipal Socialism's “YIMBY” Problem. The Housing Crisis and Zohran – Which Way Forward?

2026-03-13T03:39:33Z

It's Tuesday, November 4: Soon-to-be mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announces—after weeks of ducked questions—that he is voting yes on housing ballot Propositions 2 through 4. Props 2, 3 and 4 generated significant disagreement (in often illegible ways) with bizarre medleys across the spectrum of

- Metropolitics / Spectre Journal

Congestion Pricing's Unexpected Winners: Suburban Drivers

2026-02-05T12:43:17Z

NYC's controversial toll program hasn't just sped up trips inside Manhattan, a new paper finds. It's easing traffic in outer boroughs and neighboring counties.

- Metropolitics / CityLab

DOT wants to prohibit free buses. That could be a problem for Mamdani in NYC

2026-02-05T12:42:08Z

A proposal from the Trump administration would restrict federal funding for cities that don't charge fares.

- Metropolitics / Politico

‘Exclusively for the elite': why Mumbai's new motorway is a symbol of the divide between rich and poor

2026-01-26T06:10:12Z

With 64% of the city's residents relying on buses and trains so overloaded that up to 10 passengers die a day, anger is rising over a taxpayer-funded road most will never use

- Metropolitics / The Guardian

In Somerset, I found glorious proof that the UK can build great council houses. So what is holding us back?

2026-01-26T06:09:19Z

It was life-affirming to meet the residents of Rainbow Way in Minehead. But so much still stands in the way of Labour's vision for social housing

- Metropolitics / The Guardian

Say what you like about "Sadiq Khan's no-go hellscape" – Britain's cities prove the right-wing agitators wrong

2025-11-17T14:36:44Z

To right-wing populists who try to portray the world in simple terms, places of fluidity and freedom will always be the enemy.

- Metropolitics / The Guardian

“Our hallway's big enough to play football in!” The council housing that feels like a holiday resort

2025-09-12T14:05:11Z

Boasting two-sink kitchens, Tower Court in north London is tailored for the Haredi Jewish community – but its generous proportions and outside space for religious observance are a treat for all residents.

- Metropolitics / The Guardian

Saudi Arabia: How is Mobility Being Transformed in the Oil Kingdom?

2025-09-08T00:05:34Z

04 April 2025, by Aniss Mouad Mezoued
The launch of the Riyadh metro in late November 2024 once again highlighted Saudi Arabia's ambition to position its capital among the world's leading cities. This movement, driven by the diversification of its economy and the reform of its social contract, is

- Metropolitics / Mobile Lives Forum

Transport for Suburbia: Beyond the Automobile Age (Paul Mees)

2025-09-08T00:01:03Z

27 March 2025, by Javier Caletrío
Can suburbia avoid car dependence? Can low-density areas enjoy first-rate public transportation? Is the electric car the main option for reducing transport-related carbon emissions in the dispersed city? In Transport for Suburbia, Paul Mees argues that we can have

- Metropolitics / Mobile Lives Forum

Geopolitics and Electric Vehicles: The Rise of Climate Protectionism

2025-09-07T23:58:05Z

17 February 2025, by Xabier Gangoiti and Graham Parkhurst
The electric vehicle (EV) revolution is not just a technological shift; it's a geopolitical earthquake. This article understands automobility as a crucial pillar of contemporary capitalist societies, locking the economy and society into

- Metropolitics / Mobile Lives Forum

One Way to Fight Rising Food Prices: Public Grocery Stores

2025-03-27T18:56:34Z

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has proposed opening government-owned grocery stores as a solution to ever-increasing food costs and food deserts. Other cities have already done this.

- Metropolitics / The New Republic

The Quiet Power of Car-Free Neighborhoods

2025-02-27T15:00:10Z

Restricting or banning vehicles in congested city centers pays off with cleaner air and safer streets. We need to talk more about the other big benefit — less noise.

- Metropolitics / CityLab

What Happened to Hanging Out on the Street?

2025-02-27T14:57:49Z

Urban pedestrians are walking faster and doing less socializing, according to a new study of NYC, Boston and Philadelphia. Is technology to blame, or public space itself?

- Metropolitics / CityLab

Archive | Electric mobility and the Chinese middle classes

2025-02-24T23:03:55Z

April 27, 2018, by David Tyfield
How crucial are the mutual interactions of emerging e-mobility and the transformation of the Chinese middle classes for the future of societies and mobilities?

- Metropolitics / Mobile Lives Forum

Archive | Harnessing social tipping dynamics for the ecological transition: the case of the electric car

2025-02-24T18:50:37Z

June 13, 2023, by Javier Caletrío
Researchers and practitioners are paying growing attention to the possibility of a fast transition in practices and technologies that could accelerate the achievement of emissions-reduction targets. Although these rapid transitions are usually identifiable in

- Metropolitics / Mobile Lives Forum

Cycles of Violence: Analysing Media Discourse in the Newspaper Reporting of Bicycle Users and Road Fatalities

2021-11-26T01:50:07Z

How are cyclist and pedestrian deaths depicted in newspaper reports, and how do these reports help shape understandings of cycling, walking, driving and road safety? This is an important question because the reporting of cyclist and pedestrian fatalities shapes public and political understanding of

- Metropolitics / Mobile Lives Forum

Lahti: The First Carbon-Rationing Experiment Applied to Local Journeys

2021-11-26T01:49:01Z

The city of Lahti in Finland was the first to experiment with a carbon-trading scheme among its inhabitants to reduce transport-related emissions. Based on a mobile app that measures the emissions of each daily trip and lets users manage their individual carbon allowance, this system was voluntary,

- Metropolitics / Mobile Lives Forum

Is Rationing Carbon for Travel a Fair, Efficient, and Realistic Solution?

2021-11-26T01:48:03Z

In the wake of the pandemic, a carbon tax at Europe's borders is now on the agenda, but a domestic version for France, aimed at individual travel, is also likely to enter the national debate ahead of the 2022 presidential election. Experts and economists are not willing to give up on this idea. CO2

- Metropolitics / Mobile Lives Forum

Reducing Carbon-Emitting Travel: A Factor of Social Cohesion and Ecological Necessity

2021-11-26T01:41:50Z

As part of France's Mission on the Future of the Economic Model of Public Transportation, commissioned by the French Minister for Transport and led by Philippe Duron in 2021, the Mobile Lives Forum presented its analysis of the current mobility system and its three-pronged approach to making

- Metropolitics / Mobile Lives Forum