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Kai Shang, a visiting PhD student
Kai Shang (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China), is a visiting PhD student at Université Paris Cité and the UMR 8504 Géographie-cités laboratory for a six-month research stay.
Social Cohesion Reduced to Social Ties?
Sport, Leisure, and the Limits of Migrant Inclusion in Spain, an article co-authored by Julien Puech.
A multilingual dictionary for the recognition of macro-regions and countries mentioned in daily press news
A data paper by Claude Grasland and Etienne Toureille published in the Cybergeo online review.
Towards a New Urban Regime? Reconfiguring Urban China through Internal Migration”
A presentation by Cinzia Losavio, at the Department of Geography and Resource Management of the Chinese University of Hong Kong on June 25.
The hidden number of Chinese Cities
How can we explain the deliberate omission of the vast majority of small and medium-sized cities in most studies on urban China?An article by Denise Pumain for the Cybergeo Conversation Blog.
Dynamics of discovery and the Heaps-Zipf relationship
A paper by Célestin Zimmerlin, Thomas Louail, Manuel Moussallam and Marc Barthelemy.
Gábor Sonkoly on an official academic mission at the University of São Paulo
Gábor Sonkoly will deliver lectures on June 1, 3, 11, and 15.
Thesis Defense: Léo Taillandier
The heterogeneity of cycling within and between functional urban ereas: A modeling approach. Monday, June 1 at Campus Condorcet.
The Legal Spatiality of Land, Water, and Infrastructure
This seminar will take place on June 8, 2026, at Campus Condorcet.
Sustainable Pathways for Waterborne Transport in Ukraine
Ivan Savchuk contributed to the recommendations submitted to the Government of Ukraine in preparation for post-war reconstruction.
DISEE – Spatial Dimension of Engagement with Exiles
The DISEE project examines the spatial dimension of discouragement, the making of "long-term volunteers," and the circulation of knowledge between engagement territories.
Mobility and Daytime Population in Geographical Space
Chapter 3 of the volume The Mobile Individual: Everyday Life, Long-Term Temporalities, and Mobile Subjectivities", authored by Hadrien Commenges and Julie Vallée.
Children’s global imaginaries
The sociogenesis of political and moral views of world space in childhood: a paper by Anne-Cécile Ott published in Children's Geographies.
Affordable housing, finance and the state: Towards a global urban comparison
A comparative analysis of six metropolitan areas: Shanghai, Nairobi, Paris, Casablanca, Salford, and Rome, with the contribution of Antoine Gosnet.
Special screening of the award-winning documentary Skid Row Marathon
With Judge Craig Mitchell and the filmmakers, Friday, April 10, 2026 at MK2 Bibliothèque.
Declining red brick factories in Greater Cairo (Egypt)
Unveiling military-led urbanization through its productive peripheries: an article by Corten Pérez-Houis.
Defining the “medium-sized city”
Reflections on a territorial category at the crossroads of urban research and public policy, by Achille Warnant.
Impact of Geopolitical Factors on Ukrainian Seaports during the Ongoing Russian–Ukrainian War
A chapter of "Ports in the Polycrisis: Navigating Geopolitical, Ecological, and Institutional Challenges", by Ivan Savchuk.
European Heritage Label Selection Report 2025
It was prepared under the direction of Gábor Sonkoly, EHL Selection Panel Chair, Sigita Bugenien and Zdeněk Novák, General Rapporteurs.
Evaluating and Understanding the Geocoding of City Directories of Paris (1787-1914)
How these collections of millions of nominative entries associated with addresses can be turned into a serial dataset. An article cosigned by Julie Gravier.
Obscene Theming as Strategic Commodification of Public Spaces
Analyzing the Material Outcomes of Staging Sexualized Feminine Bodies in Venice Beach, by Alexandre Pires.
Sketches and lessons of past and evicted ‘biogeochemical policies’ in twentieth century France
An article by E. Dufour that aims to reopen the future of both urban sanitation and agriculture.
Diego Coletto, Guest researcher
Diego Coletto is a Visiting Professor at the EHESS / Géographie-cités.
Karine Duplan, Guest researcher
Karine DUPLAN is a Visiting Professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), within the research unit UMR Géographie-cités.
Adaptive Redesign of Urban Industrial Landscapes
The Case of the Technical Chamber Square in Komotini, Greece: an article co-authored by Varvara Toura.
