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. metropolitics.org/Ride-Hailing...

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

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

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 from a more sensitive perspective, far removed from the usual stereotypes.

"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." metropolitics.org/An-Interview...

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. metropolitics.org/Build-Canada... @docdantzler.bsky.social

How might progressive city administrations build the power they need for real policy wins? From her new book Budget Justice, 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.

CFP for a forthcoming special series: “Governing Repair: The Role of Cities and States in Reparations Policy,” edited by Prentiss Dantzler, Rashad Williams, and Akira Drake Rodriguez. Welcoming submissions through June 1! buff.ly/HzWD3gL @docdantzler.bsky.social @akirarodriguez.bsky.social

CFP for a forthcoming special series: “Governing Repair: The Role of Cities and States in Reparations Policy,” edited by Prentiss Dantzler, Rashad Williams, and Akira Drake Rodriguez. Welcoming submissions through June 1! buff.ly/HzWD3gL @docdantzler.bsky.social @akirarodriguez.bsky.social

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

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 before its time, whose very existence is now threatened by an urban renewal project. metropolitics.org/A-Masterpiec...

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 in their conversation with Anant Maringanti. metropolitics.org/What-Is-Wort...

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

Naomi and I speak with Anant Maringanti about how local research can simultaneously advance scholarly research and be a vehicle for advocacy. Published in @metropolitics-jrnl.bsky.social @uoftcities.bsky.social @dublincityuni.bsky.social @dcuresearch.bsky.social metropolitics.org/What-Is-Wort...

Public transportation has a decisive role to play in any meaningful ecological transition. Yet key players in the sector continue to prioritize resource-intensive technical innovations. Arnaud Passalacqua and Philippe Poinsot re‑examine experiences in France to identify solutions.

In case you missed it: "Agrarian Fantasy, Settler Colonial Property, and the Making of Industrial Johannesburg" by Renugan Raidoo. metropolitics.org/Agrarian-Fan... This is the last in our series on "Provincializing the 'Real-Estate Turn'" — read the series here: metropolitics.org/Provincializ...

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. metropolitics.org/On-the-Land-...

"Useful Transgressions: Informality, Power, and Urban Life in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay" by Ryan Thomas Devlin metropolitics.org/Useful-Trans...

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. metropolitics.org/Unexpected-O...

With origins in manufacturing and heavy industry, “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,” they mostly serve to legitimize those companies’ voices.

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. metropolitics.org/Useful-Trans...