Martine Drozdz

Bio

I hold a PhD in Geography and Urban Planning (University of Lyon, 2014), am a qualified teacher of geography, and am an alumna of the École normale supérieure (Arts and Humanities).

Since completing my PhD, I have been conducting research into the transformations of global cities, work which is carried out within the framework of several international collaborations.

My research focuses on the evolution of urban planning doctrines and practices in Paris and London, within a context where international economic shifts and the ecological crisis are driving significant changes in knowledge and working methods.

I have examined these transformations through various lenses, particularly regeneration and planning policies and major urban redevelopment projects. This work has been accompanied by a reflection on urban democracy and on the forms and challenges of collective mobilisation centred on urban space.

My research has been funded, amongst others, by the French National Research Agency (ANR), the Labex Futurs Urbains, the ERC Urban-Rev led by Ozan Karaman, the Arts Council, and the Engagement Fund at University College London.

Since 2010, I have had the opportunity to teach at the University of Lyon, the London School of Economics, University College London, the École nationale des ponts et chaussées, the École d’urbanisme de Paris and Sciences Po Paris.

From 2017 to 2019, I was a visiting professor at the University of Geneva, where I worked on the challenges of adapting urban planning to global climate and environmental change.

Since 2022, I have been teaching at the Sciences Po Urban School as part of the GETEC Master’s programme, Governing Ecological Transitions in European Cities, for which I have developed a course on the history and geography of urban transition policies (energy, ecological, risk adaptation, etc.), examined through a socio-technical lens. At the École d’Urbanisme de Paris, I co-designed with Jonathan Rutherford the Master’s module ‘Contemporary Urban Issues’, an introductory course to the history of urban studies and the controversies that shape this field of research.

I am an elected member of the Latts Scientific Council and the European and international correspondent for the InSHS. Within the Futurs Urbains laboratory of excellence, I co-founded and lead the interdisciplinary research group ‘Urban Production and Markets’, which explores, from a comparative perspective, the contours of the marketisation of urban resources and services in Europe.

I am involved in the European research project URBAN-REV, funded by a Starting Grant from the European Research Council. I also helped set up the COPOLIS (ANR 2019 winner) and FAIRVILLE projects, on urban planning and citizen science, submitted to the Horizon Europe H2020 funding programme.

In 2018, together with Dr Andrew Harris, co-director of the UCL Urban Lab, we secured funding from UCL’s Global Engagement Fund to establish a scientific cooperation network with the Labex Futurs Urbains and its partners on developments in urban planning in Paris and London.

I have been and remain a member of several scientific networks and learned societies: AESOP – Association of European Schools of Planning, RGS-IBG – Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers, AAG – American Association of Geographers, UAA – Urban Affairs Association, ENHR – European Network of Housing Research.