Contents

Land for infrastructure. From shifts in network operators’ land and property strategies to territorial and environmental controversies

• By Juliette Maulat, Jean-Baptiste Frétigny and Natacha Aveline

The Maine-Montparnasse project (1953–1973): the SNCF’s early embrace of property development in a Parisian station neighbourhood

• By Adrien Duval

From infrastructure coverage to residual land: the continuum of railway land development in the Netherlands

• By Inès Delépine and Mathilde Pedro

Land in 3D! Excavation and backfilling: a zero-sum game? The volumetric impacts of infrastructure projects in Toulouse on the Ariège plain

• By Hélène Blaszkiewicz, Jérémie Cavé, Léa Sébastien, Hélène Guétat-Bernard, Sylvain Kuppel, Astrid Avellan and Laure Laffont

From the greening of industries to increased land use: the paradox of the photovoltaic and excavated soil management sectors

• By Maxime Algis

The significance of the event

River and port land: a tool for urban decarbonisation?

• By Jean Debrie

Interview

Interview with Rémi Feredj, former Chief Executive of Poste Immo

• With Matthieu Gimat and Juliette Maulat

Reading notes

Coudroy de Lille, L., Brun, J., Burgel G., Montigny G., Ozouf-Marignier M.-V. (eds.), 2023, Marcel Roncayolo: In the Footsteps of a Unique Geographer, Marseille, Parenthèses, 320 pp.

• By Hélène Nessi

Rouillard, D., and Artuphel, M. (eds.), 2024, *Magic: The Irrationality of Infrastructure*, Geneva: MétisPresses, 213 pp.

• By Denis Bocquet

Bertho R., Keravel S., Pousin F., Roseau N. (eds.), 2024, Photographing Greater Paris: A Visual History of Metropolitan Change, Paris, Hermann, 335 pp.

• By Angelo Bertoni

Herr-Laporte, C., 2025, *Être à l’heure. Coordonner les mobilités en France au ^XVIIIe siècle*, Paris, Presses des Mines, ‘Histoire, sciences, techniques et sociétés’ series, 279 pp.

• By Marie Hue

David Sayagh, *The Sociology of Cycling*, 2025, Paris, La Découverte, ‘Repères. Sociologie’ series, 128 pp.

• By Gaëtan Mangin

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For 2026, the journal has decided, as a one-off, to award both a first prize and a second prize. The selection committee is made up of members of the journal’s editorial board. Assessment is based on criteria of scientific originality, quality of writing, engagement with fieldwork (in the broadest sense: case studies, archives, quantitative data sets, corpora of literary works, etc.), and the contribution to the journal. Articles based on doctoral theses will be particularly welcome, with a focus on empirical material (fieldwork, archives, and other sources).

Prizes

The prize for these articles, published in 2025, is worth 1,500 euros.

The 2026 First Prize has been awarded to Alix CHAPLAIN, who holds a PhD in Urban Studies from the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) and is a contract lecturer and researcher at Sciences Po Saint-Germain-en-Laye, for her article entitled: ‘When infrastructure failures reshape political solidarity: Lebanese fragmentation through the lens of access to electricity’, published in issue 139–140 on Citizenship and Urban Infrastructure of the journal Flux.

This study explores how the crisis in Lebanon’s electricity grid – a symbol of the state’s failings – has turned access to electricity into a political and social issue. Faced with chronic power cuts, citizens are developing decentralised solutions, reshaping power relations and revealing the country’s sectarian, economic and territorial divisions. The article shows that the grid and its alternatives are becoming spaces for protest, domination or solidarity, offering a fresh analysis of the socio-material dynamics within a society in crisis.

The 2026 Second Prize has been awarded to Ali MOHSIN for an article published in English on the material anthropology of biometric citizenship infrastructures. He holds a PhD in anthropology and sociology from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (GIDS) in Geneva and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Global Partnership Network (GPN) at the University of Kassel in Germany. The article is entitled: ‘Infrastructures of excess: Politics of biometric and data-based citizenship in Pakistan’s cash transfer programme’.

This article examines the political subjectivities generated by digital social protection schemes, through a study of cash transfer programmes in Pakistan (BISP/EKP). By analysing these schemes as an infrastructure of inclusion, it reveals how they shape the experiences of female beneficiaries, caught between the formal reinforcement of their citizenship and practical disillusionment. Based on ethnographic research conducted in Lahore (2019–2022), the study shows that digital technologies, which are supposed to facilitate access to rights, are instead becoming an infrastructure of excess: labourious, time-consuming processes and profound contradictions in the relationship with the state. A critical analysis of the promises and limitations of digitalised social policies.

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We invite you to read the call for expressions of interest from the journal Flux:

Urban production and management: troubling knowledge

Edited by Elisabeth Lehec, Sabine Bognon, Agnès Bastin and Jean-Baptiste Bahers.

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Contents

Technological utopias: between political imaginaries and social movements

• By Anaël Marrec and Fanny Lopez

The Mask, or the Utopia of the Healthy Mine: Socio-technical Controversies Surrounding the Dust Mask at the Twilight of the Coal Industry (1930s–1980s)

• By Charles-Antoine Wanecq

The Last Lighthouse: From Navigation Aids to Coastal Surveillance in France (1967–1988)

• By Vincent Guigueno

Driving an old car: a technological dystopia?

• By Gaëtan Mangin

Saving eastern Paris from decline: the urban motorway as a technocratic utopia in the service of urban regeneration

• By Marion Emery

Can automation be harnessed to serve a post-capitalist society? From reclaiming the promises of widespread automation to rebuilding a political project

• By Yannick Rumpala

Reading notes

Roseau, N., and Tassin, B., 2024 (eds.), *With Our Backs to the Wall: Imagining Socio-Ecological Futures*, *Transitions: The New Annals of Ponts et Chaussées*, vol. 4, 149 pp.

• By Julianna Colonna

Jarrigeon, A., Roseau, N., 2024, *Condition mobile. Ressorts de l’imaginaire*, Infolio, Archigraphy-Futurs Urbains series, 179 pp.

• By Denis Bocquet

Vérin, H., 2024, Building a Science of Man: Antoine Raucourt, a Committed Graduate of the École Polytechnique (1789–1841), Paris, Classiques Garnier, 514 pp.

• By Konstantinos Chatzis

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