Théo Bendahan joined LATTS as part of a PhD program supervised by Olivier Coutard and co-supervised by Ludovic Halbert and Félix Adisson. His thesis is entitled: "The reconstitution of public land action in Île-de-France. Financing circuits, digital technologies, and links to urban production chains." Through his research, he seeks to examine the apparent paradox between, on the one hand, the reconstitution of public land control and ownership capacity in Île-de-France since the 2010s and, on the other hand, the growing and renewed role of private operators in the production of urban spaces within the same region.
By studying the financing circuit, the legal and regulatory mechanisms, and the socio-technical instruments that underpin this renewed capacity for intervention in the Île-de-France markets, we will examine the social and spatial effects of public land action on the nature and programming of operations delivered in the Île-de-France region, questioning the potential contribution of this action to the dynamics of tertiarization and financialization of urban space in the Île-de-France region.
After earning a bachelor's degree in political science and geography (University College London), he enrolled in the Sciences Po Urban School for a first year of master's studies, before obtaining his master's degree from the Paris School of Urban Planning in 2022 (specializing in urban programming, projects, and management). Before joining LATTS, he worked for a year and a half as a project manager at the Établissement Public Foncier d'Île-de-France (EPFIF). During this professional experience, he wrote a thesis on the impact of public land action mechanisms on financialization.