Essays

• 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 

• For cities of a different nature

  
  26 March 2014, by Jérémy Grangé & Sylvain Petitet & translated by Oliver Waine
  City-dwellers want to see more of their metropolitan areas turned over to nature and urban public spaces; however, our cities today are still structured by a network of roads that were primarily 

• The sustainable metropolis: when night enlightens day

  
  5 March 2014, by Luc Gwiazdzinski & translated by Oliver Waine
  The night-time, long a neglected dimension of the city, can no longer be dismissed. Luc Gwiazdzinski invites us to explore this nocturnal realm and together imagine the contours of this 

• Could harmonised working times spell an end to the rush hour?

  
  12 February 2014, by Emmanuel Munch & translated by Oliver Waine
  Efforts to coordinate working hours across urban territories have increased in recent years. By exploring the “desynchronisation” of journeys, these experiments aim to reduce congestion at peak 

• Migrant Destinies

  
  15 January 2014, by Sylvaine Bulle & Laetitia Tura & translated by Oliver Waine
  Although borders are often invisible, they govern people’s right to move freely, as well as clandestine migration strategies. Here, Sylvaine Bulle comments on photographs by Laetitia Tura and, in 

• Soundscape Revisited

  
  8 January 2014, by Élise Geisler & translated by Oliver Waine
  Research on the subject of the landscape reminds us that it does not just engage us visually, but that all our senses are involved. In particular, Élise Geisler here revisits the concept of the 

• The future of planning?

  
  13 November 2013, by Simone Abram
  Rather than looking at the designs that planning promises, anthropologist Simone Abram prefers to consider planning as a performance increasingly used to organise our societies in the present. 

• Racism: a blind spot in French urban sociology?

  
  2 October 2013, by Élise Palomares & translated by Oliver Waine
  Why has the analysis of interethnic relations been so long ignored by French urban sociology? For Élise Palomares, although the fading memory of the Chicago School’s legacy and a partial vision of 

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