Latest news from the Urban School

Our dean Patrick Le Galès and Fatoumata Diallo, an alumna, present our school and our courses. Find out more about the admissions process at our admissions page.

The Institut Paris Région has just published the study carried out by our students as part of a capstone. The purpose of this study is to provide an overview of the rental stock in four countries and the role of private institutional investors.

The 2020 edition will be held on-line via the Seekube platform from 14 to 16 October. The Career fair is a unique opportunity for students to: Get information on a wide range of companies, their values, the opportunities they offer.

Four students from Sciences Po’sMaster in Regional and Urban Strategy have recently come to the end of a GROUP project with the Ihédate. The aim of the group project was to study strategies of ecological governance in Germany.

Inaugural lecture was held on 10 September on the theme "Cities, climate crisis and ecological transition" Swedish historian and professor of environmental History, spoke on the subject.

Inaugural Lecture of Sciences Po’s Urban School on the theme "Cities, Climate Crisis and Ecological Transition" 10 September, from 5 pm to 6:30 pm. Watch live here.

Camille Gaumont is the Cycling Project Manager at Plaine Commune, a public institution representing 9 communes to the north of Paris. She is the cycling lead for the entire area, which is half the size of Paris and home to 430,000 inhabitants.

This year’s group projects are now finalised. The aim is to create a guide of recommendations for urban project management. The West of the Vosges is a rural territory with a remarkable landscape and cultural identity.

Mathilde Fraisse, student at the Urban planning programme, won first Carbuncleprize for her paper. An awards ceremony was held via videoconference on May 20 and was followed by a webinar on sustainable cities in France and Turkey.

This paper aims to gain an overview on how smart city is being interpreted and embedded in China, through the example of Huawei and Alibaba’s smart city implementations in Shenzhen and Hangzhou. It examines the emergence of the “Brain-Nerves” model of smart urban governance in Chinese cities, as well as the practices, processes and outcomes that are currently unfolding on the ground.

The Urban School is launching its annual campaign to identify "group projects" The campaign is aimed at deciphering the crisis linked to the health crisis in France.

The Urban School and UN-Habitat have been working together for several years. The memorandum was signed during the World Urban Forum in Abu Dhabi. It provides for the development of research partnerships and the implementation of group projects.

The students of the master Governing the Large Metropolis are going to try to answer this question during their study trip to Seoul. The aim of the study trip is to observe the strategies and the status of the city.

Juan Cristellys is a Senior Consultant at Eurogroup Consulting, a strategy consulting firm based in Paris. He did his Bachelor at Sciences Po, at the Campus in South America, Spain and Portugal.

The Ruhr region has undergone a spectacular economic transformation. The aim was to examine the strategies deployed by the region to deal with new challenges. The students will now produce a report that will be published soon.

25 urban institutes from across five continents participated in the Global Urban Network Workshop. The next meeting will be next February in Abu Dhabi, during Habitat World Urban Forum.

Martha Delgado Peralta, Undersecretary for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights at the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs of the United Mexican States, will be at Sciences Po on 13 November. She is going to discuss about Mexico’s contribution towards building prosperous, inclusive and tolerant cities.

Lucas A. Cividanes and Clément Da Cruz were awarded the Jury Prize at the 2019 UrbanPlanners International Forum for their study of urban agriculture policies in São Paulo. For nearly two months, the two students conducted field visits and more than 20 interviews with key actors of Urban agriculture. They focused specifically on the analysis of the "Ligue os Pontos" policy, which, since 2016, has sought to engage the metropolis into a transition towards sustainable, resilient and circular urban development.

The new Master of Government course will open in 2020. The course aims to improve the quality of life in European cities. The master's objectives are to make Europe's cities better places to live.

Two alumni, one student from the UrbanSchool, presented the school programmes during a live interview. The interview took place on Tuesday 2 November 2021.

Hugo Ribadeau Dumas graduated from Sciences Po in 2013. He now works as an advisor to the Government of India. He has worked in India, Bangladesh and Afghanistan in the last 6 years.

Students in second year of the MASTER IN REGIONAL AND URBAN STRATEGY study trip to Madrid. Aim is to understand evolving forms of urban governance and policy-making.

Governing the Large Metropolis is a study trip to Mexico City. The main goal of the trip is to collect data for a collective report on governance dynamics of a large metropolis.