Metropolitics

Journal of public scholarship about cities & urban politics. Collaborates with French-language @Metropolitiques.

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Ride-Hailing Away from Democracy: Building Uber’s Political Playbook in Washington, DC.

Read Lauren Ames Fischer's review of "Disrupting DC: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City" by Katie Wells, Kafui Attoh and Declan Cullen.

https://t.co/QFf7pR86gU

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In the past decade, platforms like Uber and Lyft have changed how people navigate urban space. Disrupting DC illuminates Uber’s efforts to influence democratic space, reforming city power to serve the needs of smart cities and the gig economy.

https://t.co/QFf7pR86gU

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“Build Canada Homes” Will Fail Without Confronting Anti-Black Racism by Prentiss Dantzler

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The selection of postcards presented by Renaud Epstein in his book "On est bien arrivés" (“We’ve arrived safely”) invites us to look at France’s large postwar social housing projects and their inhabitants against the usual stereotypes.

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"An Interview with Marc Serra Solé: Barcelona’s Citizens Forge Solidarities Through the State" by Celina Su, excerpted from her new book "On Building Grassroots Politics and Solidarities."

https://t.co/mWrnvYf3FR

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Canada’s new housing agency risks repeating the same injustices that produced today’s uneven housing crisis unless it embeds anti-racist frameworks in its development plans.

https://t.co/w5uIubAmc1

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How can progressive city administrations build the power they need for real policy wins? In her new book, Celina Su interviews Barcelona en Comú's Marc Serra Solé about what they learned in the shift from building a movement to governing inside City Hall.

https://t.co/qiY1C1Sdpx

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Call for papers for a forthcoming special series: “Governing Repair: The Role of Cities and States in Reparations Policy,” edited by Prentiss Dantzler, Rashad Williams & Akira Drake Rodriguez. Welcoming submissions through June 1!

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"The Cities We’re Losing—The Cities We Need" — Ahmed Allahwala reviews Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani's book.

https://t.co/qHgLTBcATh

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La Butte-Rouge is the archetypal example of a French cité-jardin. Retracing its history, Élise Guillerm highlights the urban and architectural qualities of this eco-neighborhood, whose very existence is now threatened by an urban renewal project.

https://t.co/6pFd3MQOex

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What is the state of urban theory from the Global South and how can local research simultaneously advance scholarly research and be a vehicle for advocacy? Dr. Naomi Adiv and Dr. Hari Sasikumar explore these questions with Anant Maringanti.

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New book review: Ahmed Allahwala on Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani's "The Cities We Need," which shows the importance of understanding how the loss of "ordinary" places—diners, corner stores—impacts how we understand neighborhoods and ourselves.

https://t.co/qHgLTBcATh

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Public transportation has a decisive role to play in ecological transition. Yet key players in the sector prioritize resource-intensive technical innovations. Arnaud Passalacqua and Philippe Poinsot re‑examine experiences in France to identify solutions. https://t.co/2tqhb7mzfB

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In case you missed it: "Agrarian Fantasy, Settler Colonial Property, and the Making of Industrial Johannesburg" by Renugan Raidoo. https://t.co/vs7xorQC0L

This is the last in our series on "Provincializing the 'Real-Estate Turn'" — read the series here: https://t.co/ftj3ivAcBy

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In case you missed it: In "On the Land Question in India: The Case of Sriperumbudur Industrial Region in Peri-Urban Chennai," V. Gajendran shows that amidst intense demand for land, farmers near Chennai, India face dispossession by neglect.

https://t.co/HaCo4R7wVT

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"Useful Transgressions: Informality, Power, and Urban Life in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay" by Ryan Thomas Devlin

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In case you missed it — "Unexpected Outcomes: Land Ceilings, Rent Control, and the Rise of Real Estate in Bombay" by Nikhil Rao. Rao demonstrates that, paradoxically, Mumbai’s neoliberal real-estate system has its origins in progressive legislation.

https://t.co/fEvkxLNw3W

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"Digital twins” are increasing within urban planning and governance. As Oskar Steiner demonstrates, while private firms advocate these tools as a way to “let the city speak,” in practice they serve to amplify and legitimize those companies’ own voices.

https://t.co/GVVWj24hDZ

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New book review — Ryan Thomas Devlin on Jennifer Tucker's "Outlaw Capital":

In "Outlaw Capital," Tucker argues that the gray spaces of informality are essential to the vitality of cities, leveraged for different ends by elites and the poor alike.

https://t.co/71ADGRpCAa

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“The Apartment You Can Own with Pride”: Federally Insured Black Housing Cooperatives, 1950–1955 | by Nicholas Shatan
https://t.co/s6cZB9zfSL