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Episodes from the Social Life of the Delhi Metro

Sneha Mandhan - 20 January 2023
What is the impact of a new metro on a large and growing city? As new metros are cropping up across Asia, Rashmi...
Reviews

Cooperating in Democracies

Evan Casper-Futterman - 13 January 2023
Evan Casper-Futterman reviews Practicing Cooperation: Mutual Aid Beyond Capitalism by Andrew Zitcer, which reflects...
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Series

New York Tech Dossier: The Dark Side of New York’s Tech Economy

Sharon Zukin - 7 January 2020
Metropolitics is pleased to present the first of a series of dossiers coordinated by faculty and students in the PhD program in sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. These dossiers explore New York City-specific issues. The first dossier, comprising three articles, examines New...
From the Field

Have Low-Income Households Been Failed by the Sale of Social Housing?

Matthieu Gimat & Manon Le Bon-Vuylsteke & Bruno Marot & translated by Oliver Waine - 6 January 2023
Since 2018, the selling-off of social housing in France, as in other countries in Europe, has accelerated. What are...
From the Field

Securing Shelter While Facing Eviction: The Case of Syrian Migrants in Lebanon

Dima El Khouri - 16 December 2022
Dima El Khouri documents the politics of securing housing for Syrian refugees in Lebanon. She shows the complex web...
Reviews

Underground Berlin: Where Infrastructure Meets Politics

Clarence Hatton-Proulx & translated by Oliver Waine - 2 December 2022
Water, electricity, gas: in Remaking Berlin, Timothy Moss presents a history of Berlin’s infrastructure networks...
From the Field

Plague and Urban Policy in Bombay, 1896–1914

Vanessa Caru & translated by Oliver Waine - 18 November 2022
What consequences can an epidemic have on a city? Vanessa Caru describes the ways in which a plague epidemic in...
Essays

Visualizing “Superdiversity” in New York City

H. Jacob Carlson - 8 November 2022
A new set of visualization and mapping tools focused on “superdiversity” shows the complexity and intersectionality...
From the Field

Women Farmers Doing It for Themselves? The Ambiguous Consequences of Non-Mixed Engagement

Clémentine Comer & translated by Oliver Waine - 1 November 2022
In the farming world, many women’s groups defend the cause of women farmers. Clémentine Comer analyzes the...
Debates

Changes in Contemporary Brazilian Housing Policy: The Dismantling of Social Housing and Grassroots Mobilization

Thalles Vichiato Breda - 21 October 2022
Thalles Vichiato Breda argues that since 2016, with the rise of right-wing governments in Brazil, the federal...
From the Field

Spaces of Inclusion and Exclusion: Algerians in Paris, France

Elizabeth Nelson - 4 October 2022
In the context of contemporary French republicanism, how do Algerians in Paris assert their identities and...
Essays

The Emergence of Ecological Thinking in the City

Charles-François Mathis & translated by Oliver Waine - 27 September 2022
What place does ecological thinking have in the field of urban planning? In describing the use of vegetation in...
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Series

Urban Wastes, Present and Future
New York Dossier: The Food Industry Faces the Covid‑19 Pandemic
Cities in the Age of Financialization
Contemporary Housing Struggles: Crises, Activism, and Critical Research
New York Tech Dossier: The Dark Side of New York’s Tech Economy
Progressive Mayors and Urban Social Movements
Land Rights in the Urban Global South
Climate Change and Social Change
Shrinking Cities

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From the Field

Covid-19 Transformed New York’s Destination Food Markets

Ivana Mellers - 5 October 2021
Ivana Mellers analyzes how New York’s destination markets—key spaces of economic and social interactions—coped during...
Reviews

Filming Ethnic Diversity in New York

Stéphane Tonnelat & translated by Christina Mitrakos - 21 October 2016
Frederick Wiseman’s fortieth documentary film, In Jackson Heights (2015), returns to an urban theme explored in...
From the Field

Looking Inward, Across the Border

Harel Shapira - 19 April 2016
In the constellation of anti-immigrant politics in the United States, groups like the Minutemen, civilians who...
Essays

The Political Aesthetics of Drag

Shaka McGlotten - 13 October 2015
Drag, or the diverse art form and culture of performance that typically plays with gender and sex, is an integral...
Debates

Disarm the Police

Gregory Smithsimon - 29 September 2015
In the current political debates about discriminatory policing, there has been a lack of serious discussion of...
Reviews

The Dangers of Security

Médéric Martin-Mazé & translated by Oliver Waine - 22 May 2015
In Against Security, Harvey Molotch highlights – through various examples, including the New York subway, airports,...

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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...

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While emissions from the transportation sector remain at a very high level, all hopes are currently pinned on the...

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