Essays

• Transport as both a function and a facilitator of metropolitan development?

  
  12 February 2015, by Aurélien Delpirou & translated by Oliver Waine
  In Paris, Lyon and Marseille, the development of public transport is a central element of the metropolitan projects currently under way. However, the challenges to be tackled and the approaches 

• “I, you, he, she, we are all Charlie”: what feeling concerned means

  
  5 February 2015, by Gérôme Truc & translated by Oliver Waine
  The attacks that took place in Paris in early January have affected French society in a way never seen before, as shown by the number of people that joined marches all over France on 11 January 

• Looking Backward into the Future of New York

  
  12 January 2015, by Ted Steinberg
  Can the lesson of Hurricane Sandy dampen the enthusiasm of New York City’s growth machine? Ted Steinberg, author of Gotham Unbound, an environmental history of New York City, gives an overview of 

• Christmas markets and department-store window displays: examples of retailtainment

  
  18 December 2014, by Nathalie Lemarchand & translated by Oliver Waine
  The function and fate of high-street shops are the subject of discussion and debate within retail firms. Where should physical stores be retained? What should these stores look like? And what can 

• A Right to the Suburb? New Urbanism, Public Space, and the Law

  
  8 December 2014, by Anthony Maniscalco
  The American suburb is changing. It is racially and economically diverse. Its sterile spaces are being redesigned for more community life. And yet, even in the community spaces in redesigned 

• Is there a model for sustainable urban planning?

  
  27 November 2014, by Claire Carriou & Olivier Ratouis & translated by Oliver Waine
  Claire Carriou and Olivier Ratouis reconsider the theoretical sources of sustainable urban planning from the standpoint of the history of urban-planning doctrines. They show that the references 

• Regeneration and the Legacy of Thatcherism

  
  15 October 2014, by Juliet Carpenter
  What was Margaret Thatcher’s legacy in terms of the way inner-city areas are regenerated in the UK? Juliet Carpenter shows that while the highly market-driven approach of 1980s “urban development 

• Territorial Equality in France: A Historical Perspective

  
  4 June 2014, by Matthew Wendeln
  Once the basis of French regional planning, the goal of national balance has made a comeback in France under the banner of “territorial equality”. The postwar experience suggests that 

• Another Vision of the Suburbs

  
  7 May 2014, by Jean-Christophe Bardot & Laurent Devisme & translated by Oliver Waine
  Images of the urban fringes of French cities often tend either to condemn their ugliness or to revel in a strange fascination for these geometric spaces. Here, Laurent Devisme comments upon 

• The effects of Thatcherism in the urban North of England

  
  2 April 2014, by Mark Bailoni & translated by Oliver Waine
  The economic policies of Margaret Thatcher’s governments polarised not just opinion but also whole swathes of the UK. In particular, the cities of northern England – Labour heartlands in an 

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