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For decades, cities throughout the world have based their mobility programmes on a misguided assumption: that car ownership will only keep growing. But as more cities challenge the auto-centric model and embrace “multimodality”, a new paradigm is emerging. Bringing about this alternative vision requires not only bold, innovative solutions, but also robust new planning institutions.

Seemingly pragmatic responses to urgent public problems risk major societal and environmental consequences.

How does public space illustrate and reproduce traditional gender power relations?

Can the EU position itself in a completely new economic geography?

Simon Guyomard and Édouard Jourdain ask what it means to inhabit the world without dominating it.

Ofer Waldman searches for traces in memories, recollections, and conversations with October 7th victims.

How do extreme far-right ideas travel from the fringes to the fore of political discourse?

An overreliance on private capital risks centering private interests over public need.

To win the fight against the oil empire, Europe must treat energy sovereignty and climate justice as two fronts of the same battle.

Where identifiable actors are behind environmental damage, voters have tended to use the ballot box to express their frustration.