The Cities are Back in Town research group gathers social scientists from Sciences Po’s various research centers and departments, as well as numerous researchers and urban practitioners in Europe and worldwide. It grants central importance to the training of young scholars and integrates many PhD candidates, at the same time as it nurtures teaching within Sciences Po and its Urban School. The group gathers regularly at the occasion of its seminar series.
The collective articulates a wide range of urban issues around a shared interest incollective action and governance in urban and metropolitan contexts in Europe and across the world: the spatialization of inequalities and urban segregation, socioeconomic and categorical inequalities (race, ethnicity, gender) in cities, migration dynamics, housing, urban infrastructure, flows and metabolisms, informality, violence and policing, urban politics and state-city relations, urban political economy and its articulation to economic globalization, as well as social, environmental, educational and economic urban public policies.
