This special issue, for the tenth anniversary of the journal Métropoles, takes a look back at urban studies in France. It also opens new research perspectives and suggests promising fieldwork for those interested in urban and metropolitan phenomena.

This issue deals with land properties and analyses the land ownership power on the construction of the City.

In recent years, metropolises have been increasingly contested by social movements that politicize metropolitanisation. This special issue brings together analyses of various forms of contestation to which metropolises are subjected to.

This issue is composed of varia articles and book reviews.