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From the Field

An Unexpected Victory in the Fight to Save Philadelphia Chinatown

Andrew Lee - 14 October 2025

Grassroots efforts to counter gentrification-inducing megaprojects often fail as elected officials negotiate various interests. Using the case of 76 Place in Philadelphia, Andrew Lee examines the nuanced interplay of forces that spared Chinatown from a new arena.

Terrains

Producing Affordable Housing in West Africa: How States Respond to Demand and Local Realities

Mathilde Mouton & translated by Oliver Waine - 10 October 2025

Based on her consulting work in West Africa, Mathilde Mouton highlights the limitations of state-led social housing...

From the Field

The Emergence of Transnational Queer Organizing Across a Hardening US–Canada Border

Elizabeth Hessek - 30 September 2025

LGTBQ+ refugees in the United States not only face the violence of the nation’s immigration policy but are also...

Horizons in the Housing Struggle

Jaime Jover & Kristen Hackett - 14 February

We are living through a polycrisis, a multidimensional, interlinked series of capitalism’s structural problems emerging worldwide. Unfolding genocides, wars and armed conflicts, Western democratic models in crisis and fascism on the rise, labor struggles increasing, climate change and related disasters growing, and...

Essays

Visible Minorities, Visible Risk: Toronto’s Unequal Eviction Burden

Prentiss Dantzler & Khalil Martin & Abigail Meza - 16 September 2025

In Toronto, who gets evicted isn’t random—it follows the city’s racial and economic divides. Canada’s data practices...

Reviews

Dakar, Portrait of a Capital City

Armelle Choplin - 12 September 2025

Dakar, métamorphoses d’une capitale, by architects Carole Diop and Xavier Ricou, takes readers on a journey through...

Metropolitics

Summer/Fall Reading 2025

The Editorial Board - 1 August 2025

The Editorial Board will be posting new articles again from early September. In the meantime, members of the...

Debates

Defunding Social Services

Brenden Beck - 15 July 2025

Cities around the United States are bracing for federal funding cuts to social services. Yet, as Brenden Beck...

From the Field

The Fight for Community Ownership in Los Angeles Chinatown via the LA Chinatown CLT

Amy Zhou - 8 July 2025

Community land trusts are one strategy to stem displacement due to real-estate speculation in Chinatowns across North...

Interviews

Unleashing Finance Capitalism in the City: An Interview with Isaac Rose, Author of The Rentier City

Jonathan Silver & Isaac Rose - 24 June 2025

Jonathan Silver interviews author and tenant organizer Isaac Rose about his book on housing financialization in...

Essays

Settling on the Financial Periphery: Alternative Housing Practices in Hegang, China

Yimeng Yang - 17 June 2025

Can valuing a home for its use value constitute a form of resistance to housing financialization? Considering the...

Essays

Planning in the Age of Political Populism: Kolkata’s Tram Debate

Tathagata Chatterji - 10 June 2025

Using the case of Kolkata’s tram system, Tathagata Chatterji shows how two distinct political strategies—populism and...

From the Field

Istanbul as a Showcase of AKP’s Electoral Techno-Nationalism

Yohanan Benhaïm & translated by Oliver Waine - 3 June 2025

In Turkey, President Tayyip Erdoğan was re-elected for a third term in May 2023. Yohanan Benhaïm looks back on the...

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