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The Second Coming of the Accessory Dwelling Unit
Joseph Weil Huennekens
- 26 October 2021
Joseph Weil Huennekens discusses the history of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) in the context of housing in the...
Debates
Reimagining Skill
Nichola Lowe
- 12 October 2021
Nichola Lowe argues that skill needs to be reimagined, not erased from efforts to strengthen the institutional...
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Aéroports de Paris: A Strategic Lever for the French State?
Nathalie Roseau & translated by Oliver Waine
- 26 January 2021
Following growing controversy surrounding the French government’s plans to privatize the Aéroports de Paris (ADP)...
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...
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...
Debates
Diverting Eyes and Bodies: The Management of Homeless Visibility in New York City
Eric Goldfischer
- 19 November 2019
Eric Goldfischer argues that homeless diversion programs in New York City simultaneously divert the bodies of...
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What Does a Just Housing Plan Look Like? NYC and National Housing Movements Show the Way
Oksana Mironova & Sylvia Morse
- 22 October 2019
How could we develop a housing plan that is not rooted in capitalism? Oksana Mironova and Sylvia Morse describe how...
Debates
Can Cannabis Be Legalized in France Without Inflaming the
Banlieues
?
Christian Ben Lakhdar & Aymeric Reyre & translated by Oliver Waine
- 5 July 2019
France is a place of paradoxes: cannabis is widely consumed, and yet legalization does not seem to be on the cards,...
Debates
Reclaim Value Capture for Equitable Urban Development
Laura Wolf-Powers
- 28 May 2019
Land-value capture (LVC) mechanisms have become a popular tool for fiscally constrained municipal policymakers....
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Post–Amazon HQ2 Incentive Reform: We can have good deals—but not without transparency and meaningful public participation
Mary Donegan
- 21 May 2019
What does the collapse of New York City’s Amazon HQ2 deal mean for the future of economic development incentive...
Debates
Private Infrastructure and Urban Government: How Vélib’ Veered Off Course in Paris
Maxime Huré & translated by Oliver Waine
- 17 May 2019
When the city of Paris entrusted its decade-old bike-share service, Vélib’, to a new provider in January 2018,...
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The Limits of the Accepted Orthodoxy on Rent Control
Loïc Bonneval & François Robert & translated by Oliver Waine
- 22 March 2019
In response to a recent critique of their work, Loïc Bonneval and François Robert defend their method and results. In...
Debates
Masculine Sports and “Respectable” Men in Working-Class Neighborhoods
Carine Guérandel & translated by Oliver Waine
- 12 March 2019
In a work rich in ethnographic material, Akim Oualhaci questions how socialization through sports contributes to...
Debates
Fixing the Accessibility Gap in Municipal Procurement
Emily Holloway & Nicholas Shatan
- 5 March 2019
How can minority- and women-owned businesses overcome structural disadvantages to building wealth through...
Debates
The Damage Inflicted by French Rent Controls between 1914 and 1948
Robert C. Ellickson & David Le Bris
- 26 February 2019
In an essay in Metropolitics, Loïc Bonneval questioned the consensus among economists that strict rent controls have...
Debates
Does Rent Control Prevent Investment in Real Estate?
Loïc Bonneval & translated by Oliver Waine
- 8 February 2019
While rent-control measures kept private rental housing in France affordable for much of the 20th century, it has...
Debates
Deafening Discord: Reclaiming Residents’ Anger in Working-Class Neighborhoods
Pierre Chabard & translated by Oliver Waine
- 26 October 2018
We recently published an article showing how, in Roubaix in northern France, elected officials took steps to...
Debates
Silent Suppression: How Local Politicians Stifle Collective Action in Working-Class Neighborhoods
Julien Talpin & translated by Oliver Waine
- 19 October 2018
Taking as its starting point a study of a neighborhood roundtable in the northern French city of Roubaix, this...
Debates
Can the Commons Pave the Way to Greater Land Security?
Irène Salenson & Claire Simonneau & translated by Oliver Waine
- 22 June 2018
Experiences of collective forms of ownership, based on the concept of the commons, have flourished throughout the...
Debates
Where Does Public Land Come From? Municipalization and Privatization Debates
Oksana Mironova & Samuel Stein
- 6 March 2018
This article illuminates contemporary land-use and disposition struggles in New York City by tracing the history of...
Debates
The Cost of Good Intentions: Planning Gridlock in San Francisco
David Prowler
- 30 January 2018
The culture of protest that marked development and planning in San Francisco during the 1970s and 1980s was a...
Debates
Storm Recovery: Local Efforts, Municipal Constraints, and New Ways Forward
Michael P. McCabe
- 28 November 2017
Climate change-induced storm surges and rising sea levels will steadily cause more damage to homes in low-lying...
Debates
When Does Police Violence Cause Urban Unrest?
Cathy Lisa Schneider
- 14 November 2017
In the summer of 2014, police killed Michael Brown in Ferguson and Eric Garner in New York. Both men were black and...
Debates
How Anti-Trans Bathroom Bills Hurt Girls and Women
C. Ray Borck
- 16 May 2017
Do recent “bathroom bills” protect girls and women from sexual predators? Sociologist C. Ray Borck shows how—contrary...
Debates
Building a Resilient and Equitable City: How to Advance Environmental Justice Through the
OneNYC
Plan
Eddie Bautista & Annel Hernandez & Juan Camilo Osorio & Pamela Soto
- 1 March 2017
Many of the challenges that cities face today stem from historic and entrenched systemic policies and processes...
Debates
On Our Own: Protecting and Developing Social Housing in the Trump Era
John Krinsky
- 13 January 2017
In response to a tense post-election moment in the US, the Metropolitics editorial committee has initiated...
Debates
On Clinton, Obama, Trump and the Failures of Liberal Urban Policy
James DeFilippis
- 15 November 2016
Many progressives are still in shock at the outcome of the recent US presidential election. In this contribution to...
Debates
Climate Action Plans and the “Climate-Just” City
Cecelia Walsh-Russo
- 27 September 2016
In the face of major climatic changes, more and more US cities are developing climate action plans. But while these...
Debates
Let Bodegas Be Bodegas
Dory Thrasher
- 20 September 2016
A new rule proposed by the US Department of Agriculture would impose new stocking rules on food stores that accept...
Debates
Technocratic Values and Uneven Development in the “Smart City”
Taylor Shelton & Jennifer Clark
- 10 May 2016
In the US, the idea of “smart cities” is coming to dominate federal government involvement in, and funding for, urban...
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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...
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
Who Cleans Paris? Garbage Collectors in Their Own Words
Coline Ferrant & Marie Mourad & translated by Oliver Waine
- 21 June 2019
Who are Paris’s garbage collectors? Coline Ferrant and Marie Mourad highlight the diverse working conditions covered...
From the Field
Moving Inside City Limits: The Urban Mobility of Undocumented Youth
Stephen P. Ruszczyk
- 4 June 2019
The urban context and public transportation shape how undocumented youths move within cities. In a comparison of...
Interviews
Teaching Art and the History of Tattoos at Rikers Island: An Interview with Tamara...
Lisa Jean Moore
- 22 January 2019
An interview with Tamara Santibanez, who teaches art and the cultural and social history of tattoos to youth...
From the Field
Snowbirds’ Gift Economy in the Arizona Desert
David Frati
- 7 November 2017
Each year, 200,000 retired people spend the winter in and around the small town of Quartzsite, Arizona, in the...
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Cycles of Violence: Analysing Media Discourse in the Newspaper...
Mobile Lives Forum
How are cyclist and pedestrian deaths depicted in newspaper reports, and how do these reports help shape...
Lahti: The First Carbon-Rationing Experiment Applied to Local...
Mobile Lives Forum
The city of Lahti in Finland was the first to experiment with a carbon-trading scheme among its inhabitants to...
Is Rationing Carbon for Travel a Fair, Efficient, and Realistic...
Mobile Lives Forum
In the wake of the pandemic, a carbon tax at Europe’s borders is now on the agenda, but a domestic version for...
Reducing Carbon-Emitting Travel: A Factor of Social Cohesion and...
Mobile Lives Forum
As part of France’s Mission on the Future of the Economic Model of Public Transportation, commissioned by the French...
Strasbourg, An Example of a Cycling City
Mobile Lives Forum
Strasbourg is the leading city for cycling in France and a constant source of inspiration for all French cities...
The Trinity of Walking, Cycling and Public Transportation Must Be...
Mobile Lives Forum
While emissions from the transportation sector remain at a very high level, all hopes are currently pinned on the...
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