Sarah Dubeaux has a PhD in geography and urban planning and is a new part-time research engineer at LATTS. She works alongside Yoan Miot in the POPSU territories action research program focusing on the Ambert-Livradois-Forez region.
Sarah Dubeaux is specifically analyzing the dimensions of innovation and circulation in practices aimed at revitalizing town centers. This project is described in more detail here: http://www.popsu.archi.fr/popsu-territoires/ambert-livradois-forez/ambert-livradois-forez
This work is a continuation of her PhD, carried out under a CIFRE agreement with the Le Havre and Seine Estuary Urban Planning Agency under the supervision of Emmanuèle Cunningham Sabot. It aimed to analyze the issue of intermediate uses in declining cities with a Franco-German dimension. It is available here: https://www.aurh.fr/prospective/utilisations-intermediaires-des-espaces-laisses-vacants/. Finally, she also had the opportunity to undertake postdoctoral research as part of a European program on shrinking cities.
The UrbaRiskLab Conference will take place on November 26, 2019, in the auditorium of the Georges Perec Library and on November 27, 2019, at ESIEE, room 3005 (see program) (more…)
The METROPAL seminar "Comparative Urban Policies and Politics," organized by Julien Aldhuy (Lab'Urba), Christian Lefèvre (Latts), and Laurent Terral (LVMT), will be held on November 21 and 22, 2019, at the Paris School of Urban Planning, Room A301.
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The RUE seminar will take
place on Thursday
, November 21, 2019
, at 2:30 p.m.
in the LATTS seminar
room, B235 (Bienvenüe).
The guest speaker will be Detlef Müller-Mahn, Professor at the Institute of Geography at the University of Bonn, who will discuss his recent work on the concept of "riskscape."
Virginie Rachmuhl is a part-time associate professor (PAST) at the Paris School of Urban Planning in the Master 2 International Expertise – Cities of the South program.
She is a sociologist and urban planner and has been working for 25 years on issues related to social housing, the integration of precarious neighborhoods, and participatory processes that enable residents and organized groups to influence and take action in urban operations that affect them. She began her career as a consultant at ACT Consultants, a research firm specializing in urban policy in France and the integration of disadvantaged neighborhoods internationally, where she worked for seven years. She also spent two years coordinating an independent network of experts focused on modernizing the social and solidarity economy.
Since 2001, Virginie Rachmuhl has been working as urban program manager at GRET (Professionals in Solidarity Development), a major French international solidarity NGO (www.gret.org
). There, she conducts socio-urban studies, leads technical assistance/project management assistance missions, supervises operational projects, coordinates or contributes to capitalization and publications, and participates in public debate on more inclusive and sustainable urban planning and urban cooperation policies. She has gained experience in various geographical contexts, in Africa (Morocco, Mauritania, Congo Brazzaville, Senegal, and Burkina Faso), Latin America and the Caribbean (Haiti, Cuba, Brazil), French overseas
territories (French Guiana), and more occasionally in Myanmar, Cambodia, Madagascar, Mexico, Panama, and South Africa.
Interested in training and knowledge transfer, she regularly taught master's courses before becoming a PAST at the EUP in 2018. Her main objective there, particularly through the workshop she supervises, is to equip future urban professionals to recognize and integrate precarious neighborhoods and their inhabitants into the development and management of cities in the Global South.
Zhumin Xu
will speak at the annual conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) in Greenville, SC, USA on October 24-27, 2019. (more…)
Nathalie Montel is co-organizing with Isabelle Backouche (EHESS, CRH) a study day on the theme of "Urban Complaints" on Tuesday, October 15, 2019, at EHESS (Paris).
This transdisciplinary study day aims to focus attention on written complaints from city dwellers about their city. Mostly handwritten, these letters of complaint belong to the repertoire of protest and the large family of letters addressed to the authorities. What do these quiet complaints tell us, in the different contexts in which they are expressed, about the relationships between city dwellers and those who govern them, but also about urban lifestyles, daily life, and social interactions in the city? What forms do these written complaints take, and what strategies do complainants use to win their cases? Are intermediaries called upon to write these complaints? How do the authorities choose to respond to these grievances, which require them to take action? Do these complaints from ordinary city dwellers and individual initiatives have the power to influence the policies put in place or to change certain practices of the urban authorities?
The 2019 UPE thesis prize for the Organizations, Markets, Institutions doctoral school was awarded to Aude Danieli
for her thesis supervised by Olivier Coutard:
"The 'socialization' of the smart meter. Innovations, uses, and controversies in the social worlds of the Linky electricity meter in France."
The award ceremony will take place on Tuesday, November 5, 2019, at 3:00 p.m. at the University of Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne.
Learn more about the thesis award ceremony
.
contributed to this report for the 80th Congress of the Union Sociale in 2019. It focuses on issues that are fundamental to the HLM Movement. It also includes contributions from Bruno Cautrès, Laurent Davezies, Hervé le Bras, Christine Leconte, Bernard Stiegler, Laurence Tubiana, and Jean Viard. It brings together demographic, political, economic, geographical, philosophical, sociological, environmental, and architectural perspectives.