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- Luca Venga (2025). “The difficult art of sustaining alternative governance: the case of the EZLN.”Territory, Politics, Governance
- Matthieu Gimat, Antoine Guironnet & Ludovic Halbert (2025): “A pyrrhic victory? The contested and peripheral financialisation of social housing in France”, International Journal of Housing Policy.
- Nicolas Portier (2025) “Les territoires aux défis de la concentration des entreprises”,Report for the Caisse des Dépôts
- Manisha Anantharaman, Priya Uteng, T., Henderson, J., Sadoway, D., & Gopakumar, G. (2025). “Putting the car in context: a call for a situated technopolitical transition in global automobilities.” Mobilities
- Marco Cremaschi, Federica Rotondo, Antoine Guironnet. (2025). “National Report on the Regulatory System of EEP” ReHousIn 3.2, Metropolitan Research Institute.
- Deborah Fromm. (2025). “The business of protection: Insuring urban violence risks in contemporary Brazil” Economy and Society.
- Alix Chaplain & Eric Verdeil, (2025), “Regulating a Pluralistic and Decarbonized Electricity Supply through Public Service Principles of Equity and Solidarity,” Arab Reform Initiative
- Olivier Borraz & Valérie Novembre (2025), “Le temps des crises. Une histoire de la gestion des crises en France,” L’année sociologique.
- Violante Torre (2025). “ ‘I want to keep it like my home’. Hagia Sophia and the politics of exhaustion and care of an urban landmark“, Env and Plan D
- David Rottmann (2025). Faire la ville sans les promoteurs immobiliers, Editions Apogée
- Joost de Moor (2025). “Toward a problem-centered approach to social movements: the case of European climate activism“, European Societies
- Thomas Lacroix, Jorge Enrique Culebro Moreno & Juan Carlos Triviño-Salazar (2025). “The moving lines of multilevel governance. Loyal and activist cities during the COVID-19 crisis”, Book Chapter in Handbook of Research on Migration, COVID-19 and Cities
- Francesca Ferlicca, Ricardo Apaolaza & Juan Pablo Venturini (2025). “Resilient co-production of peripheral popular urbanisation in Buenos Aires Metropolitan Region“, Book Chapter in Resilient Cities in the Global South
- Fatoumata Diallo (2025). “Lagos’ Impossible Bus Rapid Transit“, EchoGéo
- Marco Cremaschi & Tommaso Vitale (2025). “The Policy of Refugee Reception and the Policing of Public Space in Paris”, Book Chapter in City Makers and the Politics of Urban Diversity Governance
- Bruno Cousin & Nikolaj Schultz (2025). “A bunker of one’s own: The super-rich and the mansions for the end of the world”, Ephemera: theory & politics in organization
- Talja Blokland, Gabriel Feltran and Nina Margies (2024). Special Issue : “An Urban Impasse”, Journal of Economic and Human Geography
- Maren Larsen, 2025. « ‘Peace-kept’ urbanism: Ephemerality and endurance in eastern DRC » Urban Studies, 62(11).
- Antoine Courmont and Burcu Baykurt. 2025. « Special Issue: Google, a major stakeholder in local governance? » Urban Studies, 62(13).
- Lise Lécuyer & Marco Oberti & Quentin Ramond. 2025. “Carte scolaire et ségrégation Quelle place pour la mixité sociale au collège ?”, La Vie des Idées
- Pierre Madec. 2025. “Logement social. Outil à préserver”. Revue Projet, 406(3), 28-32
- Michela Barbot et al. 2025. Les acteurs et les mécanismes de l’expertise du XVIe au XIXe siècle, Presses des Mines
- Nicolas Portier. 2025. “Disparités immobilières. Mal-aménagement du territoire”. Revue Projet, 406(3), 51-55
- Ulrike Lepont, Desmond King and Patrick Le Galès. 2025. “States making markets and markets making states” in Handbook of Comparative Political Economy. Edward Elger.
- Telma Hoyler & Eduardo Marques. 2025. “Making Political Representation in Territories of the City: The Role of Mandatos in São Paulo”. Urban Affairs Review.
- Francesca Ferlicca, et al. 2025. “Resilient co-production of peripheral popular urbanisation in Buenos Aires Metropolitan Region: The case of Guernica land reappropriation” in Resilient Cities in the Global South. Routledge.
- Steiner, O. 2025. “City digital twins and the urban laboratory: The practice and politics of ‘sandbox urbanism'”. Cities.
- Samaha, P. 2025. “When land became property in Lebanon. The transformation of land codes since 1858 and its implications on planning and public lands.” Planning Perspectives
- Guimbail, L. 2025. “Navigating frictions in digital urbanism: Google Maps, public transportation and collaborative data-driven mobility governance.” Urban Studies
- Ferlicca, F. 2025. “Book Review: Recycling Class: The Contradictions of Inclusion in Urban Sustainability.” Urban Studies.
- Steiner, O. 2025. “La fabrique des jumeaux numériques urbains : le cas de Dassault Systèmes.” Métropolitiques
- Barrière, V. Jaibar, F. Paul-Élie Lanchon, P.-É. & Rifai, A. 2025. “LEGACITY: Porte de la chapelle, un quartier entre mémoire et métamorphose” (Podcast)
- Iodice, S., Van Heerden, S., Barranco, R., Bertoni, E., Curtale, R. et al. 2025. “Exploring the nexus of housing, tourism, and local liveability: Insights from Paris, Milan, and Rome”, Iodice, S., Van Heerden, S. and Ribeiro Barranco, R. (editors), Publications Office of the European Union.
- Verdeil 2025, “Bilan des destructions au Liban après la guerre de 2024 et enjeux de reconstruction”, Confluences Méditerranée
- Barbot 2025, Les règles de la valeur. Les prix et l’estimation au prisme du droit, Presses de l’Université Toulouse
- Citarella et al. 2025, “Au-delà du design actif : construisons un urbanisme actif et sportif !”, Base 93
- Joost de Moor, “Towards a problem-centered approach to social movements: the case of European climate activism”, European Societies, 2025
- Caseau, La conjugalité à l’épreuve d’une migration précarisée, Revue des politiques sociales et familiales
- Torre, Re-learning culture in cities beyond the West, Urban Studies
- Birch, More than ‘self-help’: The urban governance of the Ebola outbreak in Monrovia, Liberia, Geoforum
- Bühlmann et al. 2025, Varieties of Economic Elites? Preliminary Results From the World Elite Database (WED), The British Journal of Sociology
- Silva, Gendered Contexts? The Effect of Neighbourhood Socio-Economic Deprivation on Girls’ and Boys’ Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Development, The Sociology Compass
- Silva, Neighbourhood Effects Across Generations and the Reproduction of Inequality, The British Journal of Sociology
- Sihra, The odour of segregation, International Sociology
- Campana, Varese & Meneghini, 2025, Criminal governance in a large European city: The case of gangs in London, European Journal of Criminology.
- Alonso Ferreira, 2025. Book review: “Delivery as Dispossession. Land Occupation and Eviction in the Postapartheid City”, Zachary Levenson, 2022.
- Bastin & Florentin 2024. “Heurs et malheurs des DIVD. Les trois malentendus de la démonstration urbaine”, Métropoles.
- Fourchard, 2025. “Lost and Peripheral Centralities in the Post-Colony: Lessons from West Africa”, Book Chapter
- Ferlicca, 2025. Book review: “Natura Urbana: ecological constellations in urban space”, Matthew Gandy, 2022.
- Lopes Campos, Fromm & da Silva Telles, 2024. “Dossiê Mercados Transnacionais e suas ferramentas”, Revista Brasileira de Sociologia.
- Fawaz & Verdeil, 2025. “Comment reconstruire le Liban ? De guerres en crises, un territoire face à des vagues de destruction”, Métropolitiques.
- Timbeau, 2025. “Quelles marges de manœuvre pour revaloriser le travail ?” L’Économie politique.
- Arnold & Lacroix, 2024. “The Global South City as a Postcolonial Ecotone”, Book Chapter.
- Flamant & Lacroix, 2025. “The Association Nationale des Villes et Territoires Accueillants: The Becoming of an Activist City Network.”
- Desille & Lacroix, 2025. “City diplomacy of ordinary cities: Harnessing migrant inclusion policies for international engagement in Amadora, Portugal.” Governance.
- Borraz, 2024. “Authoritarianism As a Bureaucratic Phenomenon.” The Tocqueville Review.
- Laugaa, Pinson & Smith, 2024. “Les strates de la smart city.” Réseaux.
- Charlotte Halpern, 2025. “A Paler Shade of Green: Emmanuel Macron’s Policies on the Environment and Climate Change”, Book Chapter
- Laurent Fourchard, “Lost and Peripheral Centralities in the Post-Colony: Lessons from West Africa”, Book Chapter
- Marco Cremaschi, “What Peripheral Centrality Does to the City: The ‘EUR Neighbourhood’ in Rome, Italy”, Book Chapter
- Gabriel Feltran and André de Pieri Pimentel, “Conexões globais desiguais”, Revista Brasileira de Sociologia, 2024
- Nonna Mayer, “Jews and Muslims in the 19th district of Paris: Together or apart?”, European Journal of Cultural Studies, 2025
- Côme Salvaire, “Pourquoi délaisse-t-on les territoires délaissés ?”, Mouvements, 2025
- Francesca Artioli and Patrick Le Galès, “Metropolitan governance as organised anarchy: The case of the Paris region”, Cities, 03.2025
- Federica Rotondo published three book chapters in the edited book Local Energy Transitions in Europe. From Practice to Theory (Drewello, H., Pellegrino, M., Vilmin, T. (eds), 2024) :
- “Approaches and Challenges in Public Housing Renovation: Insights from Two Case Studies in Italy“
- With Thierry Vilmin “The System of Local Actors: Strategies Between Resources and Constraints“
- With Isabella M. Lami and Elena Todella “How Does a Serious Game Contribute to the Sustainability-Oriented Training of an Urban Planner?“
- Nicolas Clément, Review of Tommaso Vitale et al. L’État et la pauvreté étrangère en Europe occidentale, 2024
- Marco Cremaschi et al., Pour en finir avec le petit Paris, Editions Archicity, 2024
- Beatriz Botero Arcila, “How the Law Makes Smart Cities Unaccountable, and How to Start Making it Better: Lessons from Sidewalk Toronto”, Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law, 2024
- Petra Samaha, “Searching for the public in Lebanon and Palestine, between land and its ownership. Part 6: Whose land? And to which State?”, Legal Agenda, 11.2024
- Agnès Bastin, Magali Castex et Daniel Florentin, “Les défis pratiques et épistémologiques d’une écologisation de l’aménagement”, Géographie, économie, société, 11.2024
- Thomas Lacroix, “L’État sans frontières. Comment les migrations transforment l’État”, ENS Editions, 2024
- Eric Verdeil, “Martigues et l’imagination de l’anthropocène”, Métropolitiques, 09.2024
- Federico Varese & Fanqi Zeng, “The relationship between social order and crime in Nottingham, England”, Nature Cities, 11.2024
- Giacomo Parrinello et al., “Liquid assets: Coastal wetlands, regional parks, and the protection of Mediterranean deltas”, Coastal Studies & Society, 09.2024
- Cristiano Caltabiano, Tommaso Vitale, Gianfranco Zucca, “La prospettiva civica. L’Italia vista da chi si mette insieme per cambiarla”, Fondazione Feltrinelli, 2024
- Julien Leplaideur & William Le Goff, “Le logement intermédiaire contre le logement social.” Esprit, 2024
- Antoine Courmont & Laure Guimbail, “Les Big Data, une ressource politique pour les plateformes ?” Quaderni. Communication, technologies, pouvoir, 2024
- Vanessa Caru & Christophe Jaffrelot, “Histoire de Bombay/Mumbai”, Fayard, « Les grandes études internationales », 2024
- Silvia Lucciarini and Marco Cremaschi. “SPERIMENTALISMO URBANO PER UNA CITTÀ A PORTATA DI MANO. IL VOLANO CULTURALE E ASSOCIATIVO COME STRATEGIA A ROMA EA PARIGI.” in ROMA A PORTATA DI MANO: LA CITTÀ DEI 15 MINUTI
- Alvaro Artigas et al. “Urban Heat and critical environmental thresholds: new bridges between science and policy?” LIEPP Policy Brief, 2024
- Anne Épaulard, Paul Malliet, Anissa Saumtally, Xavier Timbeau. “Europe’s Ecological Transition: Staying the course.” OFCE Policy Brief, 2024
- Lauren BERTHELOT, Ivan TISSOT, Clément BOISSEUIL, Émilie MOREAU, Sandra ROGER, “Quelles évolutions de la pauvreté dans la Métropole du Grand Paris en dix ans ?” Apur, 2024
- Xavier Timbeau, “The Lack of Interest in Economics for the Challenge of the Century”, Economics and Statistics, 2024
- Olivier Borraz, “Authoritarianism as a Bureaucratic Phenomenon”, The Tocqueville Review, 2024.
- Petra Samaha, Review of the book “Sunni City. Tripoli from Islamist Utopia to the Lebanese Revolution”. Mondes Arabes, 2024.
- Cafora, S., Lareno, J., and Vitale, T, « Policies to Decommodify and Revive the Right to Housing in Italy ». Fondazione Feltrinelli, 2024.
- Côme Salvaire, “Autonomie des formes urbaines et périls de l’évolutionnisme”. Varia, 2024.
- Rocio Calzado, “Funding the social transformation of housing estates”, European Journal of Spatial Development, 09.2024.
- Marcela Alonso Ferreira, et al. “Cultivating Urban Agriculture Policies: Local Government Entrepreneurs’ Strategies in Three Brazilian Cities”. Urban Planning, 09.2024
- Côme Salvaire, “Book review forum: Politics and the Urban Frontier: Transformation and Divergence in Late Urbanizing East Africa”, in Urban Studies, 05.2024
- Tommaso Vitale, Giordana Ferri & Silvia Cafora, “L’interesse dei giovani innovatori sociali per i modelli di abitare collaborativo” in Collaborare e abitare. Il diritto alla casa nelle metropoli per le nuove generazioni, 2024
- Tommaso Vitale & Silvia Cafora, “Introduzione. L’abitare fluido in città e metropoli per niente fluide”, in Collaborare e abitare. Il diritto alla casa nelle metropoli per le nuove generazioni, 2024
- Talja Blokland, Gabriel Feltran & Nina Margies, “Introduction: An Urban Impasse”. Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG, 2024.
- Patrick Le Galès, “The Rise and Fall of the Sociology of the Global City”. Annual Review of Sociology, 2024.
- Louis Bourgois and Elise Roche, “Dix ans de résorption de bidonvilles… et de recherches”, interview with Olivier Legros and Tommaso Vitale, Géocarrefour, 2023
- Patrick Le Galès, “Comparative research on European cities and policies. The Sciences Po Urban School approach”, in Metrolab series, 2024
- Eric Verdeil & Chantal Verdeil. “Extension mondiale du domaine marchand. L’éducation et l’électricité dans la crise libanaise”, Esprit, 2024
- Sukriti Issar, “The Hustler and the Mooch: Slavery in Late Eighteenth-Century Bombay”, Slavery & Abolition, 2024
- Eric Verdeil, “Marcel Roncayolo : quelle postérité pour un pionnier de la géographie urbaine ?” Compte Rendu, Géocarrefour, 2024.
- Manisha Anantharaman, Recycling Class: The Contradictions of Inclusion in Urban Sustainability. MIT Press, 2024.
- Olivier Legros, Céline Bergeon, Marion Lièvre & Tommaso Vitale (eds.), L’Etat et la pauvreté étrangère en Europe occidentale. PUR, 2024.
- Soazig Dollet, “Entre contrôle de l’image de soi et fermeture. Retour sur la grammaire des attitudes adoptées par des personnes réfugiées dans le cadre d’entretiens biographiques”, Bulletin of Sociological Methodology, 2024
- Laurent Fourchard, “In the Shadow of the State: the Making of Garage Laws in Lagos”, Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology, 2023
- Marcela Alonso Ferreira, “The Bureaucratic Politics of Urban Land Rights: (Non)Programmatic Distribution in São Paulo’s Land Regularization Policy”, 2023
- Pierre-Philippe Combes, Clément Gorin, Shohei Nakamura, Mark Roberts & Benjamin Stewart, «An Anatomy of Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa», 2023
- Fatoumata Diallo, Défier la ” bonne pratique ” : stratégies d’appropriation du Bus Rapid Transit à Lagos, Espaces et sociétés, 2023
- Francesca Artioli & Patrick Le Galès (dir.), La métropole parisienne, une anarchie organisée. Presses de Sciences Po, 2023.
- Sukriti Issar, «Historicizing Real Estate: The East India Company in Early Colonial Bombay», Enterprise & Society, 2023
- Marco Oberti, Maela Guillaume Le Gall, «Decryptage : Comprendre les emeutes de juin 2023», 2023
- Santiago Gorostiza, Giacomo Parrinello, Daniel Aguettaz-Vilchez & David Saurí, “Where have all the sediments gone? Reservoir silting and sedimentary justice in the lower Ebro River”, Political Geography, 2023
- Gabriel Feltran, Isabela Vianna Pinho & Lucia Bird Ruiz-Benitez de Lugo, «ATLANTIC CONNECTIONS. THE PCC AND THE BRAZIL–WEST AFRICA COCAINE TRADE», 2023
- Patrick Le Galès & Jennifer Robinson, “The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Global Urban Studies”, Routledge, 2023
- Sukriti Issar, “Nuisance, Planning and the Common Law in Late Eighteenth-Century Bombay”, The Journal of Legal History, 2023
- Joost de Moor, “What Moment for Climate Activism?”, South Atlantic Quarterly, 2023
- Charlotte Liotta, Vincent Viguié & Felix Creutzig, “Environmental and welfare gains via urban transport policy portfolios across 120 cities”, Nature Sustainability, 2023
- Sébastien Dutreuil & Pierre Charbonnier, “Philosophy of the Anthropocene”, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science, 2023
- Giacomo Parrinello, “Water as Infrastructure and the Scalar Mismatch”, Environment and Infrastructure, 2023
- Marco Cremaschi, ‘Urban Planning’ in the Research Handbook on Public Sociology, Elgar Publishing, 2023
- Côme Salvaire, “Debris of sovereignty: discards and territorial domination in a popular neighbourhood of Lagos, Nigeria”, Territory, Politics, Governance, 2023
- Jonathan Pratschke, Tommaso Vitale, Niccolò Morelli, Bruno Cousin, Matteo Piolatto & Matteo Del Fabro, “Electoral support for the 5 Star Movement in Milan: An ecological analysis of social and spatial factors”, Journal of Urban Affairs, 2023
- Émilie Moreau, Clément Boisseuil et Sandra Roger, “Mixité sociale et ségrégation, l’importance des politiques de logement”, La Grande Conversation, 2023
- Thomas Lacroix, “La chaîne de l’accueil des exilés ukrainiens : Ukraine, Pologne, France”, Métropolitiques, 2023
- Agnès Bastin, Gouverner le métabolisme : les terres excavées franciliennes, Éditions PUCA, 2023
- Beatriz Botero Arcila, “Smart City Technologies: A Political Economy Introduction to Their Governance Challenges”, Oxford Handbook of AI Governance, December 2022
- Hugo d’Assenza David, “From Idea to Action. Instrumenting the limits to growth. A study of policy change and advocacy coalitions interplay towards the City Doughnut in Amsterdam urban governance”, 2ème Prix AIRE de la Recherche Étudiante sur l’Environnement, 2022
- Joost de Moor & Jens Marquardt, “Deciding whether it’s too late: How climate activists coordinate alternative futures in a postapocalyptic present”, Geoforum, 2023
- Clément Rivière, “Le passant décomposé”, La Vie des Idées, Décembre 2022
- Isabelle Baraud-Serfaty & Nathan Benamouzig, “The new value of curbs. Under the effect of the digital transition”, Articulo – Journal of Urban Research, 2021
- Frédéric Gilli, “Ce que l’absence de politique fait à nos vies”, Esprit, Novembre 2022
- Gabriel Feltran, Cecília Lero, Marcelli Cipriani, Janaina Maldonado, Fernando de Jesus Rodrigues, Luiz Eduardo Lopes Silva, Nido Farias, “Variations in Homicide Rates in Brazil: An Explanation Centred on Criminal Group Conflicts”, Dilemas, 2022
- Barbara Castillo Rico, Carmelo Micciche, Killian Poulain, Imane Selmane & Pierre Vidal, “L’impact de la loi ‘Climat et Résilience’ sur le marché immobilier en France : premières tendances”, Chaire Villes, Logement, Immobilier, 2022
- Roberto Rodriguez R., “Cohérence ou contradiction ? Les effets des réglementations environnementales sur le secteur du bâtiment. Une analyse à deux niveaux.”, Chaire Villes, Logement, Immobilier, Novembre 2022
- Tommaso Vitale & Émilien Houard-Vial, “Face à l’abstention, comment mieux représenter et impliquer les citoyensTommaso Vitale & Émilien Houard-Vial”, The Conversation, 2022
- Laurent Fourchard, “Expanding profit and power. The National Union of Road Transport Workers in Nigeria”, Canadian Journal of Development Studies/Revue canadienne d’études du développement, 2022
- Matthieu Gimat, Antoine Guironnet et Ludovic Halbert, “Le logement social au risque de la financiarisation”, Libération, 2022
- Patrick Le Galès, “Newyorkology of Tech Capitalism”, Sociologica, 2022
- Éric Verdeil, “Une lecture géographique de la crise électrique au Liban et des bonus cartographiques”, Revue Moyen-Orient, 2022
- Éric Verdeil, “Le sens de l’évènement. Effondrement infrastructurel et interdépendance des réseaux : leçons du Liban en temps de blackout”, Flux, 2022
- Alix Chaplain & Éric Verdeil, “Governing Hybridized Electricity Systems: The Case of Decentralized Electricity in Lebanon”, Journal of Urban Technology, 2022
- Francesco Findeisen, “The Housing Crisis in Superstar Cities: Labour Markets, Price Inflation, and Financialization”, European Journal of Sociology, 2022
- Salvatore Paolo de Rosa, Joost de Moor, & Marwah Dabaieh, “Vulnerability and activism in urban climate politics: An actor-centered approach to transformational adaptation in Malmö (Sweden)”, Cities, 2022
- Joost de Moor, “Prioritizing adaptation and mitigation in the climate movement: evidence from a cross-national protest survey of the Global Climate Strike, 2019”, Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 2022
- Fatoumata Diallo, “Conflicted translations: an analysis of the bus rapid transit policy adoption process in Cape Town”, Territory, Politics, Governance, 2022
- Marco Cremaschi, “Le logement, entre la 2cv et Airbnb”, Revue Urbanisme, Mai-Juin 2022
- Marco Cremaschi, “La ville du quart d’heure ? La ville des GAFA !”, Métropolitiques, 28 avril
- Maxime Felder, « Espaces d’enfances», La Vie des Idées, 2022 (Recension de l’ouvrage de Clément Rivière, Leurs enfants dans la ville : Enquête auprès de parents à Paris et à Milan, Presses universitaires de Lyon, 2021 )
- Quentin Ramond, “The politics of social mix in the Paris metropolitan area”, Housing Studies, 2022
- Sukriti Issar, « The financialisation of floor space, Mumbai 1880–2015 », Urban Studies, 2022
- Franco Bonomi Bezzo, Laura Silva et Marteen van Ham, “The combined effect of Covid-19 and neighbourhood deprivation on two dimensions of subjective well-being: Empirical evidence from England”, PLoS ONE, 2021
- Coline Ferrant, “Les contradictions de l’action publique sur le commerce alimentaire dans un quartier gentrifié de Paris”, Pôle Sud, 2021
- Laurent Fourchard, Classify, Exclude, Police: Urban Lives in South Africa and Nigeria, Wiley/IJURR, 2021
- Patrick Le Galès (dir.), Gouverner la métropole parisienne – État, conflits, institutions, réseaux. Presses de Sciences Po, 2020.
- Seydou Traoré, Précis de droit de l’urbanisme, Le Moniteur, 2024
- Marco Cremaschi, « Migrant integration and ITIs in the urban region of Paris », Joint Research Centre, 2021
- Étudiant.es du master GLM pour l’APUR, « Penser hors PIB : nouveaux outils de mesure et indicateurs dans les métropoles », Janvier 2022
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Founders : Patrick Le Galès & Marco Oberti
Scientific Director: Tommaso Vitale
Co-organizers : Oskar Steiner & Eva Bossuyt
Contact : citiesarebackintown@sciencespo.fr