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Group project focused on understanding how digital data can address challenges of urban renewal operations. Three tracks would revolve around the co-production of a data governance charter.

A group project is a highlight of Master's degrees. Students have to answer to an order of a public structure on an urban or territorial problem. The project ends in an oral presentation of the students.

The students will respond to an order from the Berlin municipality. The city hall questioned the establishment of cooperative urban development processes. The complexity of the district is also linked to the presence of a heavily restructured historical fabric.

Alvaro Artigas is a researcher at Sciences Po’s Centre for EuropeanStudies and Comparative Policy. He is member of the Strategic Committee of the Cities and digital technology chair. He discusses the growth of Chinese ICT companies and its consequences.

The conference aims to question the dynamics of power in cities. How do digital companies aim to manage our daily lives? How does it feel to be managed by an algorithm? What is Google's vision of urban planning? What alternatives can be considered?

As part of the ‘Introduction to Urban History’ transversal course, students must write a itinerary note. The aim of the latter is to report on a peregrination in time and its manifestations in the city.

Students of the Master of Regional and Urban Strategy went to Budapest in 2016 and Bucharest in 2017 as part of their second year study trip. Each of the two group of students made a specific studytrip report.

Sciences Po provides the Sciences Po Students website to guide the students in all their steps. This infographic summarizes the most important ones (see the infographic with the links (PDF-84Ko)).

Luisa Coppolino and Amélie Calafat have just returned from a semester on exchange at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. They agreed to talk to us about their experience.

The course “Imaginaires des futurs urbains’, offered to first year students and apprentices, will resume this semester. It aims to explore the speeches, stories and urbanimaginaries associated with societal, environmental, technological orscientific developments.

The students in first year of the Master Regional and Urban Strategy went on a study trip in Montpellier and Sète from 9 to 12 October, 2018. Discover this journey through a video made by our students.

The students of the Master Governing the Large Metropolis are going to México this year for their study trip. The aim of the study trip is to put the analytical tools acquired in the course to use in the city.