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Château Rouge: a “Little Africa” in Paris?
22 May, by & translated byThe Château Rouge area of Paris is regarded as an “African neighbourhood”. But what is the reality behind this image? Marie Chabrol shows that it has less to do with residents’ backgrounds than with -
Haussmann: from modernity to revolution
15 May, by & translated byJean-Marie Huriot shows how the latest work by geographer David Harvey to be translated into French sheds new light on the major changes that affected Paris from 1848 to 1871. Through a process -
Beirut: the new front lines of urban research
6 May, by & translated byIn Beirut, the extremely rapid transformations of both urban spaces and urban policy raise a number of questions and give researchers much food for thought. Two recent collective works reflect -
Mongolian (urban) homes
29 April, by & & translated byThe rapid urbanisation that Mongolia has undergone in recent years has changed the way its population lives. These transformations – at the crossroads between traditional culture, Soviet influence -
Identity checks and the law
24 April, by & translated byIn France, the issue of identity checks is at the heart of the thorny debate on how to ensure better relations between the police and the public. Against a backdrop of discussions on whether to -
Regulating public spaces: the ambiguous role played by new professions
17 April, by & translated byDespite a hiatus in the debate on community policing in France, the “new professions” involved in regulating public order have been the subject of renewed interest of late. Jacques de Maillard has -
When agriculture meets the city…
10 April, by & & translated byIn this article, André Torre and Lise Bourdeau-Lepage consider the role of nature in the city through the prism of urban agriculture. They defend the idea that the future of this phenomenon is -
Urban Ethnography: A Handbook
3 April, by & translated bySince the 1980s, the field of ethnography has enjoyed a return to favour in the social sciences. Richard E. Ocejo’s recent work – the first collection of texts to deal specifically with the city and -
Teenage mobility: a socialised and socialising practice
27 March, by & & translated byThe comings and goings of teenagers, while a frequent source of tension in the parent–child relationship, are a crucial experience in the construction of social identities. For this age group, -
Free public transport: from social experiment to political alternative?
20 March, by & translated byIn a work combining storytelling and reflection, a local councillor and a philosopher analyse the policy of free public transport implemented since 2009 in Aubagne, near Marseille. A resounding -
Algerians and the police: colonial continuities and the weight of war
13 March, by & translated byHow can the treatment suffered by Algerians at the hands of the Paris police in the mid‑20th century be explained? Emmanuel Blanchard’s recent work – the fruit of detailed investigative research – -
The politics of municipal mergers (and demergers) in Montreal
6 March, byIn the late 1990s, the province of Quebec reacted to metropolitan growth in Montreal by merging the city with 27 of its suburbs, provoking a major debate and, ultimately, a number of demergers. An -
Are socio-spatial inequalities increasing in the Paris region?
27 February, by & & & & & translated byAlthough the Paris region remains the richest in France, the socio-spatial contrasts in this area are on the increase. A recent study into income disparities underlines the complex nature of -
Jobs and geography: can the “functional hypercentrality” of Paris be an asset for the surrounding region?
20 February, by & & translated byIn a context of increasing competition among global cities, is it possible that Paris’s key asset is the spatial concentration of its strategic economic functions in the heart of the city? Lise -
Solving the housing crisis: opening up private housing to the social sector
13 February, by & & & translated byJean-Pierre Lévy has devoted much of his work to the issue of poor housing conditions. Here, for Metropolitics, he discusses the causes of a crisis that, in his view, is essentially qualitative in -
Renovation and consultation: Parisian approaches to redeveloping public spaces
6 February, by & translated byWhen renovating its public spaces, how does the city of Paris implement consultation processes required by French law and requested by certain residents? Bruno Gouyette, an urban planner who has -
A Regionalist Panorama for Architecture and Beyond
30 January, byCan architecture preserve local identities in a globalizing world? In their new book, Liane Lefaivre and Alexander Tzonis present critical regionalism as a viable alternative to the -
Ambivalences of Gender Planning
23 January, byHow can a gender approach be integrated into urban planning? Sandra Huning here considers this question and presents three theoretical frameworks that, though not always easy to implement, can -
Intercommunality, or the broken promises of local democracy
16 January, by & translated byAs a new territorial reform is set to be enacted in France, what lessons can be learned from past reforms? In La Politique confisquée, Fabien Desage and David Guéranger describe a “backdrop of -
Participatory democracy in France: subsumed by local politics
9 January, by & translated byIn spite of the development of new forms of participatory democracy, turnout at local elections in France has never been lower. Far from rejuvenating “local democracy”, the experiences of
Kanal İstanbul: a “crazy project” serving political ambitions
7 December 2011, by & translated by
Suburbanization as a Project
6 April 2011, by & translated by
The city is sustainable development
9 February 2011, by & translated by
Château Rouge: a “Little Africa” in Paris?
22 May, by & translated by
Maps and opinion polls
6 June 2012, by & & translated by
“Cités de transit”: the urban treatment of poverty during decolonisation
28 March 2012, by & & translated by
Beirut: the new front lines of urban research
6 May, by & translated by
- Kanal İstanbul: a “crazy project” serving political ambitions
7 December 2011, by & translated by
