{"id":3094,"date":"2025-11-03T09:24:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T08:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cities\/?p=3094"},"modified":"2025-11-03T09:24:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T08:24:47","slug":"clement-barbier-seeking-attractiveness-large-scale-urban-renewal-projects-in-the-metropolitan-areas-of-lille-and-hamburg-13-11-2025-500pm-700pm-cet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cities\/2025\/11\/03\/clement-barbier-seeking-attractiveness-large-scale-urban-renewal-projects-in-the-metropolitan-areas-of-lille-and-hamburg-13-11-2025-500pm-700pm-cet\/","title":{"rendered":"Cl\u00e9ment Barbier – Seeking Attractiveness. Large-scale urban renewal projects in the metropolitan areas of Lille and Hamburg. 13.11.2025, 5:00pm-7:00pm CET"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Seeking Attractiveness. Large-scale urban renewal projects in the metropolitan areas of Lille and Hamburg.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his latest book<\/a>, Cl\u00e9ment Barbier traces how two \u2018problem neighbourhoods\u2019 have progressively been placed at the center of metropolitan urban marketing strategies thereby shedding light on the origins and functionning of policies designed to make cities more attractive. Drawing on a cross national sociological analysis of the Union project in the north-east of the Lille metropolitan area and the International Architecture Exhibition (Internationale Bauausstellung \u2013 IBA) in Hamburg, his research takes us behind the scene of local governement and development companies tasked with transforming the image, population and economy of two declining areas that at first glance might seem to have nothing in common. It reveals how public authorities, having contributed to deindustrialise these areas, are now unable to attract the innovative companies, skilled workers and foreign investors they are vainly seeking. The figures of economic, architectural and environmental excellence are thus part of the same myth of public action, in the name of which elected officials, technicians and experts strive to create exemplary gentrification policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Speaker<\/strong>: Cl\u00e9ment Barbier<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cl\u00e9ment Barbier<\/strong> is an associate professor at the Universit\u00e9 Polytechnique des Hauts-de-France in Valenciennes, affiliated with the Laboratoire Soci\u00e9t\u00e9s et Humanit\u00e9s and associated with the Centre d\u2019\u00c9tudes et de Recherches Administratives Politiques et Sociales. His work deals with the localised governance of capitalism, focusing on large-scale urban renewal projects, real estate conversions of the industrial bourgeoisie and logistics employment regimes. He recently published En qu\u00eate d’attractivit\u00e9. Le renouvellement urbain par grand projet dans les m\u00e9tropoles de Lille et Hambourg<\/em> (2025) and coordinated Gouverner les territoires du Nord. Capitalisme, race et pauvret\u00e9<\/em> (2024) with Vianney Schlegel and Jano\u00e9 Vulbeau.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Discussant:\u00a0C\u00e9line Gipoulon, <\/strong>Deputy Director, \u00c9cole du Renouvellement Urbain<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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