Géographie-cités is an interdisciplinary research center at the crossroads of human geography and urban studies. It brings together 80 university staff, researchers, research support staff and technicians, as well as many doctoral students, to conduct research that combines theoretical and epistemological analysis, quantitative and qualitative methods, empirical work and a comparative approach.
Lab Life
Publications
Network analysis and graph theory: the text collection
The collection of texts of the fmr group offers bilingual and commented versions of texts related to network analysis.
A social history of quantitative geography in France from the 1970s to the 1990s
An overview of the blossoming of a multifaceted tradition, by Olivier Orain, a member of Géographie-cités.
Landbased commons for housing in the Global South
Results of the research program led by Géographie-cités.
Financializing nursing homes?
The article Of Natacha Aveline casts light on current debates on the political economy of real estate financialization.
Representing globalization through flows
How world maps show a relational geography of globalization, by Françoise Bahoken.
Tourism in Isfahan Province, Iran
How tourism can be the source of ideological tensions regarding the practices and places it invests.
Regioviz, a geovisualization tool to position the French regions in Europe
How to facilitate territorial comparisons thanks to an interface designed as close as possible to the users' needs.
Post-revolution structuring and recompositions of a globalised trade route in Tunisia
Diachronic analysis of the routes taken by the flow of goods made in China supplying the markets of Tunis.
Seeing the world as a landscape
On the occasion of this conference, Jean-Marc Besse, hosted by UNSAM (Argentina) will present his book Habitar on 17 May.