Félix Adisson, Sabine Barles, Nathalie Blanc, Olivier Coutard, Leïla Frouillou (Coord.)

Pour la recherche urbaine (For Urban Research).

Paris, CNRS Editions, 2020, 448 p.

Global urbanization and growing awareness of environmental issues have made the "urban" a key focus for public policy and research. It is indeed through an urban perspective that we are now able to better understand contemporary societies and living environments.
By linking social, ecological, political, and material dimensions, current research is providing new insights into theories and definitions of the urban, urban populations, and the production of their living environments. The stakes are high. They affect the quality of life of city dwellers and the shape of our societies: diversification of populations, growing inequalities, restructuring of urban flows, scales, and powers, changes in the global environment, etc.
This book, which is based on a major collective work on cities in the North and South, offers a committed overview of these current and, above all, future challenges for urban research.