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The Wolves Entered Paris

by Matthieu Calame, 18 May

About: Joëlle Zask, Zoocities. Des animaux sauvages dans les villes, Premier Parallèle
Review
Leaving the Car Behind

by Étienne Augris, 21 February

About: Alexandre Rigal, Habitudes en mouvement. Vers une vie sans voiture, MétisPresses
Review
Delhi, a Bourgeois City

by Marie-Hélène Zérah, 31 May 2021

About: Amita Baviskar, Uncivil City: Equity, Ecology and the Commons, Sage

Articles

Essay
Life and Survival in Wuhan

by Simeng Wang, 28 December 2020

This article presents a portrait of the city of Wuhan, which has been at the center of the news since the appearance of...
Review
Automotive Society

by Étienne Augris, 19 December 2019

About: Yoann Demoli et Pierre Lannoy, Sociologie de l’automobile, La Découverte
Essay
Algorithms and Territorial Regulation

by Dominique Cardon & Maxime Crépel, 16 December 2019

Uber, Waze, Airbnb… The algorithms that control these platforms are based on an optimisation of the service provided to the...
Review
Toxic Urban Land

by Pascal Marichalar, 10 June 2019

About: Scott Frickel & James R. Elliott, Sites Unseen: Uncovering Hidden Hazards in American Cities. New York, Russell Sage Foundation
Review
Of Cities and Their Mores

by Denis Bocquet, 12 November 2018

About: Joseph Ben Prestel, Emotional Cities. Debates on Urban Change in Berlin and Cairo (1860-1910), Oxford University Press
Review
Women in Motion

by Adèle Cassigneul, 9 February 2017

About: Lauren Elkin, Flâneuse. Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London, Chatto & Windus.
Essay
Inconspicuous Globalisations

by Armelle Choplin & Olivier Pliez, 14 November 2016

Towards a new geography of global trade
Review
The Kamasutra and its Audiences

by Denis Matringe, 15 September 2016

About: Wendy Doniger, The Mare’s Trap: Nature and Culture in the Kamasutra, Speaking Tiger.
Essay
Social Mix, Control and Gentrification

by Matthieu Giroud, 19 May 2016

Public policies often encourage gentrification in the name of social mix, among other arguments. In urban research, however,...
Review
One France Against the Other?

by Éric Charmes, 22 October 2015

In Christophe Guilluy’s view, there are two Frances: the urban France of towns and cities, where opportunities are...
Essay
San Francisco: Unequal Metropolis

by Sonia Lehman-Frisch, 5 October 2015

The question of rising inequalities in the United States is widely discussed, but what reality do they entail? Taking the...
Essay
Living in a Laboratory: New Orleans Today

, 10 September 2015

To live in New Orleans after Katrina is to witness the sweeping incursion of neoliberal policy in the guise of redevelopment...
Essay
Mobilizing People in Low-Income Neighbourhoods

by Julien Talpin, 22 January 2015

The Virtues and Ambiguities of Community Organizing
Essay
Brazil’s “Winter of Discontent”

by Edesio Fernandes, 23 June 2014

What It Says About Urban Planning and Urban Law
Essay
Towards a critical approach to social mix

by Éric Charmes, 17 March 2014

Should we redistribute populations or resources?
Review
Dharavi

by Juliette Galonnier, 23 January 2014

About: Marie-Caroline Saglio-Yatzimirsky, Dharavi: From Mega-Slum to Urban Paradigm, Routledge, 2013
Essay
Ethnography of Everyday Racism

by Linda Haapajärvi & Rébecca Ndour, 1 November 2013

An Interview with Elijah Anderson
Essay
Empowerment, From Theory to Practice

by Nicolas Duvoux, 8 July 2013

An Interview with Marie Hélène-Bacqué
Essay
Urban Policy in France and Great Britain

by Renaud Epstein, 4 July 2013

A Ten-Year Evaluation
Interview
Providing Fair Access to Housing

by Stéphane Füzesséry & Nathalie Roseau, 6 June 2013

An Interview with Vincent Renard
Review
A Stroll through Public Space

by Sophie Body-Gendrot, 3 June 2013

About: Thierry Paquot, L’Espace public, La Découverte.
Review
From Bombay to Mumbai

by Vanessa Caru, 9 May 2013

About: Gyan Prakash, Mumbai Fables, Harper Collins
Review
Muslims on the Decline?

by Nida Kirmani, 16 April 2013

About: Gayer, Laurent and Christophe Jaffelot (eds.), Muslims in Indian Cities: Trajectories of Marginalisation, Oxford University Press.
Review
How Paris Became a Museum

by Laure Bordonaba, 24 January 2013

About:Ruth Fiori, L’invention du vieux Paris. Naissance d’une conscience patrimoniale dans la capitale, Wavre.
Dossier
Cities, Centers of our Time

by Cristelle Terroni, 21 December 2012

A Selection of Essays and Reviews
Essay
The Creative Class to the Rescue of Cities?

by Denis Eckert & Michel Grossetti & Hélène Martin-Brelot, 9 November 2012

The notion of a creative class has been used to shape public policies promoting urban growth by building infrastructures and...
Essay
Gated Communities: Ghettos for the Rich?

by Éric Charmes, 1 October 2012

Gated communities are usually portrayed as ghettos in which the rich choose to seclude themselves out of fear of others and...
Review
Neighborhood as a social fact

by Roberta Garner, 26 September 2012

Reviewed: Robert Sampson, Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect, The University of Chicago Press, 2012
Essay
Syria: Anatomy of a Revolution

by Leïla Vignal, 21 September 2012

The attention given today to the armed uprising in Syria must not conceal the fact that there also exists a peaceful...
Essay
Novel Spatial Formats For Urban Inclusion

by Saskia Sassen, 3 May 2012

Megaregions and Global Cities
Review
Cities’ Collective Mentalities

by Alexander Tzonis, 23 March 2012

About: D. A. Bell and A. de-Shalit, The Spirit of Cities, Why Identity Matters in a Global Age, Princeton
Essay
Comparing Urban Ethoses

by Daniel A. Bell, 23 March 2012

Response to Alexander Tzonis’ Review
Campaigning for Ideas
Reforming the French Police

by Ivan Jablonka & Pauline Peretz, 3 February 2012

An Interview with Fabien Jobard, sociologist
Essay
The Rise and Fall of Alternative Spaces

by Cristelle Terroni, 7 October 2011

Throughout the 1970s, New York’s alternative spaces appeared through the spontaneous initiatives of avant-garde artists whose...
Essay
Are Cities Parasites or Resource Pools?

by Sabine Barles, 18 April 2011

Cities consume and transform massive flows of energy and matter. How can their “metabolism” contribute to their sustainability?...
Review
A Corrective History of Chinese Urban Cinema

by Madeleine Wilcox, 9 March 2011

About: Y. Braester, Painting the City Red: Chinese Cinema and the Urban Contract, Duke University Press.
Review
Making Urban Democracy Work

by Eugene McCann, 5 December 2008

In his latest work, Purcell concerns himself with democracy applied to urban life. Democracy necessitates the interaction of...

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