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Built Environment, 2021
This article examines a conflict between two narratives for the future development of Greater Par... more This article examines a conflict between two narratives for the future development of Greater Paris – the 'just city' versus the 'global city' – embodied in two competing regional rail proposals, one put forward by the Paris Region and the other by the French State. The first, Arc Express, was developed by Regional Council to reduce existing territorial inequity. A counterproposal, the Grand Huit, was formulated by the State to serve a network of new economic clusters. A political impasse between these conflicting plans, though a prelude to broader institutional transition, empowered new actors in the negotiation of metropolitan planning. It also engendered experimental tools, such as collective territorial development agreements, with which local stakeholders leveraged the state's agenda to achieve their own objectives and gained greater metropolitan citizenship.
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Metropolitics, 2013
In the fragmented context of Paris's metropolitan and regional politics, the Grand Pari(s) design... more In the fragmented context of Paris's metropolitan and regional politics, the Grand Pari(s) design consultation and subsequent public process demonstrate that the Grand Paris Express project, a major new orbital metro line, can become a form of emergent governance and negotiated planning. Although the Grand Pari(s) design consultation can be interpreted as a strategy through which the state regained control of the metropolitan narrative, this does not signal a return to the centralized planning of the 1960s. Instead, it makes apparent new political strategies required to operate in the fragmented, pluralist context of a complex metropolis.
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TDSR 21 - Traditional Dwellings & Settlements Review, 2009
This article describes current adaptations of the traditional environment of New York's Lower Eas... more This article describes current adaptations of the traditional environment of New York's Lower East Side. It examines how global factors such as expanding " content " industries, market differentiation , and the Internet have reinforced perceptions of the area as real and authentic while opening it to dramatic change. Specifically, the article considers a recent trend of commercial camouflage — hidden shops, restaurants and clubs that " represent " tradition by meticulously preserving defunct facades, signage, and other physical traces of the neighbor-hood's working-class and immigrant past. Urban camouflage, in various guises, has played a role in the transformation of the Lower East Side since the late 1970s, and has been employed by a succession of actors, from squatters to global retailers. As a cultural strategy, it has been inherent to the economic restructuring of the area, helping to overcome barriers to redevelopment that have persisted for more than five decades.
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Political Power and Social Theory, 2008
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At the Frontiers of the Urban conference proceedings (UCL Urban Lab), 2019
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FunctionLab, 2014
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Governing the Metropolis: Powers and Territories working papers, 2012
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The Next Urban Question: Themes, Approaches,Tools - Urbanism & Urbanization working papers, 2011
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Writing Cities 1- London School of Economics, 2010
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Constructing Places of Memory: Tradition, Preservation, and Gentrification, Volume 214 of the Traditional Dwellings & Settlements working paper series, 2008
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