Recent publications
8 July 2025
Petra Samaha, PhD candidate at the Centre for International Studies (CERI) and former co-organiser of Cities are Back in Town, recently published an article in the journal Planning Perspectives titled “When land became property in Lebanon. The transformation of land codes since 1858 and its implications on planning and public lands”
3 July 2025
Laure Guimbail, PhD candidate at the Centre for the Sociology of Organisations (CSO), recently published an article in the journal Urban Studies titled “Navigating frictions in digital urbanism: Google Maps, public transportation and collaborative data-driven mobility governance” The article is based on research supported by the Digital Cities Chair of the Sciences Po urban School.
28 June 2025
Francesca Ferlicca, post-doctoral researcher at the Urban School, recently published a review of Manisha Anantharaman’s book “Recycling Class: The Contradictions of Inclusion in Urban Sustainability” in the journal Urban Studies. Dr. Anantharaman is equally a member of the Cities are Back in Town research group, affiliated with the Centre for the Sociology of Organisations (CSO). Access Francesca’s review here.
12 June 2025
Oskar Steiner, PhD candidate at the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE), recently published an article in the online journal Métropolitiques titled “La fabrique des jumeaux numériques urbains : le cas de Dassault Systèmes”. The article is based on research conducted during his master’s thesis as a student in the Governing Ecological Transitions in Cities program.
6 June 2025
Four students from the Urban School’s “Strategies Territoriales et Urbaines” master’s program—Vincent Barrière, Fahd Jaibar, Paul-Élie Lanchon et Amaia Rifai—recently researched and produced a podcast in collaboration with the association Impulsion75 titled “LEGACITY: Porte de la chapelle, un quartier entre mémoire et métamorphose.”
News
12 March 2025
Conversations on climate change are often undertaken in abstract, as if the problem lay beyond human lives and lands on which we live. But climate change has shifted many lives too intimately, stripping many of the farms they tilled, of the trees that shaded them, of the river that gave them fish. In Sh’hili, Habib Ayeb – Tunisian geographer and emeritus professor at University of Paris 8 -brings to light the very human experience at the heart of climate change. Sh’hili is Ayeb’s seventh documentary. The documentary projection will be followed by a bilingual discussion (French/English).
18 December 2024
Nous vous signalons la parution du Précis de droit de l’urbanisme. Grâce à son approche pédagogique, cet ouvrage fournit une analyse exhaustive des notions fondamentales du droit de l’urbanisme. Cet ouvrage est construit autour des grandes thématiques intemporelles du droit de l’urbanisme, en retenant une approche qui permet de rendre compte de l’existence, aux côtés du « droit de l’urbanisme général », de quelques « droits de l’urbanisme spécifiques ». Il est proposé de présenter et de mettre en perspective : le droit de l’urbanisme du législateur ; le droit de l’urbanisme des administrateurs ; le droit de l’urbanisme des juges […]
14 October 2024
https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/les-matins/beyrouth-sous-les-bombes-la-ville-est-elle-devenue-insoutenable-patrick-boucheron-9751442
3 October 2024
We share a call for applications of the Urban School. Open until October 11 at noon (Paris time).
16 July 2024
Details CNRS Humanities and Social Sciences is inviting applications for a two-year post-doctoral position as part of its support for research into the habitability of the planet.The theme of this call is “Urban energy economies in the Middle East: social justice and energy transition”. The position is based at UMR CERI (France) and involves collaboration with UMIFRE IFPO (based in Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Palestinian Territories). The energy and ecological transition in Middle Eastern countries has specific characteristics and configurations, different from those in Europe or North America, but also from those in the Persian Gulf, which are characterised by […]