Recent publications
18 November 2025
Nicolas Portier (2025) “Les territoires aux défis de la concentration des entreprises”,Report for the Caisse des Dépôts
15 November 2025
Manisha Anantharaman, Priya Uteng, T., Henderson, J., Sadoway, D., & Gopakumar, G. (2025). “Putting the car in context: a call for a situated technopolitical transition in global automobilities.” Mobilities
14 November 2025
Marco Cremaschi, Federica Rotondo, Antoine Guironnet. (2025). “National Report on the Regulatory System of EEP” ReHousIn 3.2, Metropolitan Research Institute.
13 November 2025
Deborah Fromm. (2025). “The business of protection: Insuring urban violence risks in contemporary Brazil” Economy and Society.
12 November 2025
Alix Chaplain & Eric Verdeil, (2025), “Regulating a Pluralistic and Decarbonized Electricity Supply through Public Service Principles of Equity and Solidarity,” Arab Reform Initiative
News
12 March 2025
Conversations on climate change are often undertaken in abstract, as if the problem lay beyond human lives and lands on which we live. But climate change has shifted many lives too intimately, stripping many of the farms they tilled, of the trees that shaded them, of the river that gave them fish. In Sh’hili, Habib Ayeb – Tunisian geographer and emeritus professor at University of Paris 8 -brings to light the very human experience at the heart of climate change. Sh’hili is Ayeb’s seventh documentary. The documentary projection will be followed by a bilingual discussion (French/English).
18 December 2024
Nous vous signalons la parution du Précis de droit de l’urbanisme. Grâce à son approche pédagogique, cet ouvrage fournit une analyse exhaustive des notions fondamentales du droit de l’urbanisme. Cet ouvrage est construit autour des grandes thématiques intemporelles du droit de l’urbanisme, en retenant une approche qui permet de rendre compte de l’existence, aux côtés du « droit de l’urbanisme général », de quelques « droits de l’urbanisme spécifiques ». Il est proposé de présenter et de mettre en perspective : le droit de l’urbanisme du législateur ; le droit de l’urbanisme des administrateurs ; le droit de l’urbanisme des juges […]
14 October 2024
https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/les-matins/beyrouth-sous-les-bombes-la-ville-est-elle-devenue-insoutenable-patrick-boucheron-9751442
3 October 2024
We share a call for applications of the Urban School. Open until October 11 at noon (Paris time).
16 July 2024
Details CNRS Humanities and Social Sciences is inviting applications for a two-year post-doctoral position as part of its support for research into the habitability of the planet.The theme of this call is “Urban energy economies in the Middle East: social justice and energy transition”. The position is based at UMR CERI (France) and involves collaboration with UMIFRE IFPO (based in Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Palestinian Territories). The energy and ecological transition in Middle Eastern countries has specific characteristics and configurations, different from those in Europe or North America, but also from those in the Persian Gulf, which are characterised by […]