Géographie-cités, an interdisciplinary laboratory at the crossroads of human geography and urban studies
Géographie-cités is a joint research unit comprising 80 teacher-researchers, researchers, engineers, technicians, and as many doctoral students working on research that combines theoretical and epistemological reflection, quantitative and qualitative methods, empirical work, and comparative approaches.
The laboratory has four co-supervisors: CNRS, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Université Paris Cité and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. It is made up of three teams – CRIA, EHGO, and PARIS–that develop both their own research and common themes. This research combines reflexivity, human geography, urban studies, and urban planning.
It is involved in numerous scientific programs and partnerships both in France and abroad.
Last publications
The Aftermath of the Ankara station massacre: the Agency of Urban Design in the Right to Memory
Deniz Kimyon Tuna analyses the politics of confronting atrocity and try to situate this politics within the right to memory.
Confinement and Exclusion
Re-Analysing the Geographical Metaphor of the Closet through Trans Experiences of Public Space. An article by Milan Bonté.
More volatile, less equal: housing and welfare in 21st century France
An Analysis of Housing, Welfare, and Inequality, by Renaud Le Goix, William Kutz, and Ronan Ysebaert.
Bungalows and oil tanks: The environmental damages of petroleum refining and the urban politics of heavy industry
Clarence Hatton-Proulx analyzes the social and environmental consequences of fossil energy metabolisms on Montréal’s sacrifice fossil zone.
Naftali Naymanovich and the first Esperanto textbook for Yiddish speakers (1888)
An article by Denis Eckert, published in the journal East European Jewish Affairs.
Explaining infrastructural bifurcation: A comparative history of urban incineration in Montréal and Paris
How deindustrialization and gentrification put pressure on waste incinerators: an article by Clarence Hatton-Proulx.
Commoning the gardens by the Bloc
Informal gardening practices in the collective housing districts of a post-socialist city, an article cosigned by Carmen Rafanell.
Industrial Heritage Reloaded
The TICCIH 2022 proceedings have been published in book form, with a contribution by Varvara Toura.
The quiet financialisation of urban infrastructure
The media in the normalisation of airport-led development in the Paris city-region, a paper by J.-B. Frétigny, M. Magnan, J.Maulat,...
The Fable of the “Energy Recycling” of Household Waste
In this article published in the Journal of Energy History, Etienne Dufour questions the virtue of using urban waste for...
The Limits of a Success Story: Rethinking the Shenzhen Metro “Rail Plus Property” Model for Planning Sustainable Urban Transit in China
An analysis Congcong Li and Natacha Aveline-Dubach.
Why a strong global plastics treaty is essential for agricultural systems, food safety, food security and human health
A call from 12 researchers for serious consideration of the problem of plastic pollution of agricultural soils in the context...
