Publications récentes
4 décembre 2023
Nous vous signalons la parution d’un article de Marcela Alonso Ferreira intitulé The Bureaucratic Politics of Urban Land Rights: (Non)Programmatic Distribution in São Paulo’s Land Regularization Policy, dans la revue Latin American Politics & Society en décembre 2023. Abstract: How do bureaucrats implement public policy when faced with political intermediation? This article examines this issue in the distribution of land rights to informal settlements in the municipality of São Paulo, Brazil. Land regularization is a policy established over three decades, where politicians’ requests for land titles to their constituencies play a relevant role. Based on interviews and documents, this study […]
4 décembre 2023
Le document intitulé «An Anatomy of Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa» par Pierre-Philippe Combes, Clément Gorin, Shohei Nakamura, Mark Roberts & Benjamin Stewart a été publié en novembre 2023 par la Banque Mondiale. Abstract: This paper provides a detailed descriptive analysis of patterns of urbanization across Sub-Saharan Africa for the year circa 2015. Despite the rapidity and importance of Sub-Saharan Africa’s urbanization, little is known about the anatomy of patterns of urbanization across the region due to a lack of detailed and accurate official data on urban settlements and populations. To address this gap, the paper applies a modified version of the […]
13 novembre 2023
A review of Patrick Le Galès’ book «Gouverner la métropole parisienne» by Roger Keil was published in the journal PArtecipazione e COnflitto in July 2023.
6 novembre 2023
Nous vous signalons la parution d’un article de Fatoumata Diallo intitulé Défier la « bonne pratique » : stratégies d’appropriation du Bus Rapid Transit à Lagos, dans la revue Espaces et sociétés, paru en octobre 2023. Extract Certaines politiques publiques suscitent un vif intérêt sur la scène internationale en raison du succès qu’on leur prête. Elles sont qualifiées de « best practice » (« bonne pratique » ou « meilleure pratique »), étiquette qui leur confère une légitimité auprès de dirigeants d’autres pays. Dans cet article, nous nous intéressons au Bus Rapid Transit (brt), initialement mis en œuvre dans quelques villes sud-américaines pour remédier à une offre insuffisante de […]
20 octobre 2023
Nous vous signalons la parution d’un article de Sukriti Issar intitulé « Historicizing Real Estate: The East India Company in Early Colonial Bombay » dans la revue Enterprise & Society, paru en octobre 2023. Extract Property-as-real-estate emerged in Bombay at least by the turn of the nineteenth century. Real estate is historicized through previously unexplored archival sources (qualitative and quantitative) by analyzing how property was transacted in a colonial port, and how it became embedded in global circuits of commerce and the accumulation strategies of locals and the English East India Company. The paper demonstrates the existence by this time of legal institutions […]
Actualités
30 janvier 2023
T07P23 – Are cities fit for the climate crisis ? Assessing transformative change through Climate Action Plans and GHG inventories The panel seeks to understand how and to what extent GHG inventories and their components produce effects of their own across different policy sectors, such as energy, food and transportation, or whether they will adjust to attune to their respective complexities. Moreover, attention will be drawn to evolving relationships between the governing and the governed as part of GHG inventories and local climate action plans, by focusing on the concrete modes of governance through which they are formulated and implemented, […]
7 novembre 2022
The Laura Bassi Scholarship was established by Editing Press in 2018 with the aim of providing editorial assistance to postgraduates and junior academics whose research focuses on neglected topics of study, broadly construed, within their disciplines. The scholarships are open to every discipline and are awarded three times per year: December, April, and August. The value of the scholarships are remitted solely through editorial assistance as follows: Master’s candidates: $750Doctoral candidates: $2,500Junior academics: $500 These figures reflect the upper bracket of costs of editorial assistance for master’s theses, doctoral dissertations, and academic journal articles, respectively. All currently enrolled master’s and […]
7 novembre 2022
Le Liban est-il un pays en voie de disparition ? C’est la question que pose la revue Moyen-Orient trimestrielle dans son numéro 56 qui sort ce mois d’octobre 2022. Parmi les différents aspects des difficultés actuelles que rencontre le pays, un article très intéressant du géographe Éric Verdeil sur la crise électrique libanaise. Une crise qui a trois niveaux de lecture : géographique, communautariste et géopolitique régionale. L’interview est disponible sur RFI.
7 novembre 2022
Dans cet episode de Sur-Urbano, le podcast du Latin American Cities Working Group (University of California – Berkeley), Marcela Alonso Ferreira et Isabel Peñaranda Curie interviewent Eduardo Marques à propos de ses articles « Why do local governments produce redistributive urban policies? » and « Continuity and Change of Urban Policies in São Paulo: Resilience, Latency, and Reanimation », publiés en 2021. Le travail d’Eduardo examine la production et le changement des politiques urbaines redistributives dans la ville de São Paulo au cours des trois dernières décennies. Les articles rendent compte des moteurs et des modèles des trajectoires de continuité, de rupture ou d’oscillation […]
27 octobre 2022
The Housing and Real Estate Chair of Sciences Po’s Urban School and CEE have just published three calls for studies on housing and real estate. This initiative aims to support projects on the following issues: 1) Study on the contribution of institutional investors to affordable housing policies, in a comparative perspective2) Study on the contribution of digital actors to the financialisation of real estate, in a comparative perspective3) Study on the relationship between environmental policy instruments and the buildings sector in a comparative perspective Deadline: 20th November 2022 Please find more details at: https://www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etudes-europeennes/fr/content/requests-proposal.html