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François is a graduate of the Dual Master of Urban Policy with LSE. He was awarded the Best Overall Performance Prize.

A look back at the second edition of "Nature in the City" focused on the theme “Urban Nature at the Margins: Contested Climate Adaptation Governance in Urban Informality,

Over 30 students from Berlin, Paris, Madrid, Milan, and Warsaw took part in this edition. Watch the video report.

Discover the Urban School’s pre-term week activities: conferences, site visits, workshops…

From January 18 to 22, 2026, students in the Master's program in Urban Planning spent a week in the field to understand the dynamics at work in this city.

The students of the Governing Ecological Transitions in Cities Track recently took part in a learning expedition to Turino in Italy.

Graduate of the Master in Urban Planning, Rodrigue is currectly Project Director at SNCF Gares & Connexions

"The best way to experience a city is to walk": meet a Master's student in his second year at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences.

Portrait of Coline Regembal, in apprenticeship at OuiACT

Noémie is Head of the Sustainable Food Division for the City of Paris.

Joséphine, a graduate from the Master Governing Ecological Transitions in Cities, is an ecological transformation advisor at the Ministry of Justice.

Gaëlle is currently a senior project manager for climate change adaptation at the Observatoire de l'Immobilier Durable.

"Urban planning is undoubtedly one of the disciplines most central to public policy, as it has concrete consequences on the transformation of our world and on people's lives.”

Anna Lefrançois, a graduate from the Master Governing Ecological Transition in Cities, is a Biodiversity Associate Officer at the UN Environment Programme.

"My advice would be not to fear stepping into a field that feels unfamiliar."

"I would like to promote the sustainable development of cities, focusing on urban challenges related to mobility and transport planning"

"I discovered the field of urban planning and realized it brought together everything I had been learning into one subject"

A joint group project between Paris, Cape Town and Mexico City