inequalities

From the Field

Digital Technology and the City: New Forms of Urban Segregation in Cape Town?

Julien Migozzi & translated by Oliver Waine - 23 June 2023

In the age of platform capitalism, how is digital technology reconfiguring real-estate markets and access to housing?...

From the Field

Girls-Only Sport

Antoine Bréau & translated by Oliver Waine - 26 May 2023

Against a backdrop of gender inequalities at school, an experiment in the field of physical education shows that...

Debates

Where are the Women Architects?

Collectif Architoo & translated by Oliver Waine - 31 March 2023

At the 2020 edition of the Albums des jeunes architectes et paysagistes (AJAP) competition, organized by the French...

Interviews

Migration and Inequalities: The Importance of Social Class

Garance Clément & Claire Gellereau & Hélène Steinmetz & Anne-Catherine Wagner & translated by Oliver Waine - 19 November 2021

Since the 1990s, Anne-Catherine Wagner’s research has focused on migrants from the most affluent classes in society....

From the Field

Double Jeopardy for Single-Parent Families: When Housing Conditions and Lockdown Collide

Laure Crepin & Fanny Bugeja-Bloch & translated by Oliver Waine - 5 November 2021

Single-parent families are among those households most affected by economic precarity and the current health crisis....

Reviews

Infrastructure Financing and the Bonds of Inequality

Rachel Weber - 19 October 2021

Rachel Weber reviews historian Destin Jenkins’ new book, The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American...

From the Field

Covid-19 in Seine-Saint-Denis (2/2): How the Health System Exacerbates Inequalities

Audrey Mariette & Laure Pitti & translated by Oliver Waine - 24 September 2021

Although public health measures and local solidarity have helped mitigate the impact of the coronavirus epidemic, the...

From the Field

Covid-19 in Seine-Saint-Denis (1/2): When the Pandemic Entrenches Health Inequalities

Audrey Mariette & Laure Pitti & translated by Oliver Waine - 17 September 2021

The Seine-Saint-Denis département, to the northeast of Paris, was hit particularly hard by the coronavirus pandemic....

Reviews

A Social Portrait of the Subprime Crisis

Camille François & translated by Oliver Waine - 14 May 2021

What have been the social and urban consequences of the subprime mortgage crisis, and what lessons can be learned and...

Reviews

Centering Equity in the Smart-Cities Project Dialogue

Margaret Cowell - 13 October 2020

In Uneven Innovation, Jennifer Clark argues that the technological innovations behind “smart cities” can cultivate...

Essays

Shelters for Profit, Not People: The Rise of Tax-Credit Investment in US Cities

Renee Tapp - 22 September 2020

Tax-credit investment in US cities provides tax havens for investors, and squanders taxpayer resources on market-rate...

Debates

Covid-19, War, and Working-Class Neighborhoods

Pierre Gilbert & translated by Oliver Waine - 5 June 2020

The residents of France’s working-class neighborhoods, accused of exacerbating the coronavirus pandemic through their...

Debates

Reclaim Value Capture for Equitable Urban Development

Laura Wolf-Powers - 28 May 2019

Land-value capture (LVC) mechanisms have become a popular tool for fiscally constrained municipal policymakers....

Interviews

Reinventing Segregation in Northern California: An Interview with Alex Schafran

Alex Schafran & Darian Razdar - 14 May 2019

Darian Razdar interviews Alex Schafran about his new book Road to Resegregation: Northern California and the Failure...

Debates

The Damage Inflicted by French Rent Controls between 1914 and 1948

Robert C. Ellickson & David Le Bris - 26 February 2019

In an essay in Metropolitics, Loïc Bonneval questioned the consensus among economists that strict rent controls have...

From the Field

Rio de Janeiro: An (Inequitably) Connected City?

Francesca Pilo’ & translated by Oliver Waine - 21 September 2018

The tangled webs of electrical wires, a symbol of the favelas, are also the sign of an electricity service that...

Essays

Far from the Ballot Box: The Political Exclusion of the Working Classes in France

Camille Peugny & translated by Oliver Waine - 4 July 2018

Following the French presidential and parliamentary elections of 2017, the question of equal access to the electoral...

From the Field

Land Regularization on the Fringes of Mexico City: A Recipe for Reducing Inequalities?

Jean-François Valette & translated by Oliver Waine - 8 June 2018

Mexico City’s working-class neighbourhoods are the focus of numerous land-regularization operations. Jean-François...

From the Field

Planning for the Unimaginable: Puerto Rico and Strategies for Climate-Change Adaptation

Cecelia Walsh-Russo - 1 May 2018

The damage from the two hurricanes that struck Puerto Rico was multiplied by US austerity plans that deprived the...

From the Field

The Cost of Affordability: Inclusionary Zoning and Displacement in East New York

James Shelton - 20 March 2018

What are the impacts of New York City’s Mandatory Inclusionary Housing program upon low-income communities of color?...

Essays

Institutional Roadblocks to Achieving Environmental Justice Through Public Participation: The Case of CSO Control in US Cities

Rebekah Breitzer - 24 January 2018

Rather than meaningfully involving representatives of environmental-justice communities in decisions about the...

From the Field

Building a Multifaceted Campaign for Public Higher Education

Stephen Brier & Michael Fabricant - 4 October 2016

In their new book, Austerity Blues: Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education, Michael Fabricant and Stephen...

Debates

Climate Action Plans and the “Climate-Just” City

Cecelia Walsh-Russo - 27 September 2016

In the face of major climatic changes, more and more US cities are developing climate action plans. But while these...

Debates

More Affordable Transit Fares

Alexis Perrotta - 26 April 2016

Low-income urban residents often struggle to afford transit fares. Seattle recently established half-fares for poor...

Essays

In Havana, Tourism Development Before the US Tsunami

Lily M. Hoffman - 22 March 2016

The easing of Cuban–US relations will likely bring a new wave of tourists to Cuba. Although the Cuban government...

Debates

To Prevent Worsening Inequality, Put Affluent Neighborhoods on NYC Rezoning List

Moses Gates - 17 November 2015

Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning is meant to boost the affordable housing supply and create more economically integrated...

Debates

Disarm the Police

Gregory Smithsimon - 29 September 2015

In the current political debates about discriminatory policing, there has been a lack of serious discussion of...

From the Field

The Other Side of Austin, Texas

Caitlyn Collins & Katherine Jensen & Kristine Kilanski & Javier Auyero - 2 March 2015

Despite a booming economy, Austin, Texas, is a city where inequalities persist and grow in the shadow of neoliberal...

Debates

Interrupting Inequality: Crisis and Opportunity in Low-Income Housing Policy

Susan Saegert - 26 January 2015

Inequality in the United States is deeply rooted in issues of property ownership, wealth, race and class....

Debates

Finance as a New Terrain for Progressive Urban Politics

Desiree Fields - 6 November 2014

Since the foreclosure crisis, inequalities have only deepened in the US, with most wealth accruing to the 1%. Desiree...

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