Recent publications
21 October 2024
A new article by Julien Leplaideur & William Le Goff, titled “Le logement intermédiaire contre le logement social.” was published in Esprit, 6: 26-29, 2024 Abstract Against a backdrop of falling real estate supply, the draft law on “affordable” housing develops the intermediate rental market to the detriment of social housing. It thus obscures social needs and neglects the regulation of “unaffordable” housing.
21 October 2024
A new article by Antoine Courmont & Laure Guimbail, titled “Les Big Data, une ressource politique pour les plateformes ?”, is published in the journal Quaderni. Communication, technologies, pouvoir, 112, 2024. Abstract Using the case of the Waze for Cities data exchange program, this article analyses how platforms use their data capital to address criticism and legitimize their role in urban governance. While this program reflects the power asymmetries between the company and local actors, it is also of interest to the latter, that intend to use it to enhance their capacity to act. However, the limited use of this private data in local policies […]
21 October 2024
A new book by Vanessa Caru & Christophe Jaffrelot, titled “Histoire de Bombay/Mumbai” was published by Fayard within the collection « Les grandes études internationales », 2024.
21 October 2024
A new book chapter in Italian by Silvia Lucciarini and Marco Cremaschi titled “SPERIMENTALISMO URBANO PER UNA CITTÀ A PORTATA DI MANO. IL VOLANO CULTURALE E ASSOCIATIVO COME STRATEGIA A ROMA EA PARIGI.” in the book ROMA A PORTATA DI MANO: LA CITTÀ DEI 15 MINUTI is published, 2024, page 47.
21 October 2024
A new policy brief by Alvaro Artigas, Charlotte Halpern, Lup Wai Chew, Sanjay Swarup, Alexandre Gelabert, and Nathalie Blanc , titled “Urban Heat and critical environmental thresholds: new bridges between science and policy?” is published by LIEPP, #74, 2024.
News
13 February 2023
T07P23 – Are cities fit for the climate crisis ? Assessing transformative change through Climate Action Plans and GHG inventories The panel seeks to understand how and to what extent GHG inventories and their components produce effects of their own across different policy sectors, such as energy, food and transportation, or whether they will adjust to attune to their respective complexities. Moreover, attention will be drawn to evolving relationships between the governing and the governed as part of GHG inventories and local climate action plans, by focusing on the concrete modes of governance through which they are formulated and implemented, […]
7 November 2022
In this episofe of Sur-Urbano, the podcast of the Latin American Cities Working Group (University of California – Berkeley), Marcela Alonso Ferreira and Isabel Peñaranda Curie have interviewed Eduardo Marques about his articles “Why do local governments produce redistributive urban policies?” and “Continuity and Change of Urban Policies in São Paulo: Resilience, Latency, and Reanimation”, published in 2021. Eduardo’s work examines the production and change of redistributive urban policies in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, in the past three decades. The articles account for the drivers and patters of the trajectories of continuity, disruption or oscillation of policies in […]
15 April 2022
In this episode of Politistes dans la Cité, the podcast of the French Political Science Association, Patrick Le Galès talks about how his research, articulated around the comparison, the study of cities and public policies in a globalized framework, has always nourished his teachings and innovative educational projects. The podcast is available in French on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Deezer, Podcast Addict and Soundcloud. More information on the website of Politistes dans la Cité.
23 March 2022
We would like to draw your attention to the launch of the call for paper abstracts for the V ESA RN 37Midterm Conference “Seeing Like a City / Seeing the City Through”. The conference will take place at the Georg Simmel Center for Metropolitan Research of the Humboldt University Berlin 5th to the 7th of October 2022. The deadline for submission of abstract proposals is May 6. Information on the 27 panels further details on the submission process can be found in the call for papers. Abstracts may be submitted here. For any info or question, please contact: RN37 Organizing […]
15 March 2022
Depuis le milieu des années 2000, les données ont fait une entrée fracassante dans le champ urbain, transformant les manières dont les villes sont gouvernées à l’ère du numérique. Que ce soit au niveau des coalitions d’acteurs, des instruments, des politiques ou des modes de régulation, la donnée impacte la façon dont la vie urbaine se trouve ordonnée. Le MOOC « Données et Gouvernance Urbaine » explore les transformations de la gouvernance urbaine à l’ère du numérique et des données. Qu’est-ce que la donnée fait à la gouvernance urbaine ? Qui gouverne dans une ville investie par le big data […]