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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.
Worlding geographies: A question of languages
Reflections by geographers working in different contexts around the world, including Renaud Le Goix.
Silently ageing, quietly shrinking
Examining age-friendly policy in French and Canadian shrinking cities, an analyse by A. Paumelle, R. Barber, B. Fernandez and M. Hartt.
Understanding Mosquito Burdens through an Urban Political Ecology of Singapore’s Residential Landscapes
An article by Natacha Aveline-Dubach and Raksha Mahtani.
Rock Against Communism in France (1984-2024)
An article by Laurent Beauguitte published in the thematic issue "Music and the Right" of the journal Transpositions.
Shifting land value capture instruments for the Grand Paris Express metro
Metropolitan governance, local trade-offs and urban outcomes: an open-access article by Juliette Maulat and Natacha Aveline.
Thesis Defense – Clara JULLIEN
The urban parenthesis. Migration trajectories from rural delta and coastal areas of Vietnam to Ho Chi Minh City in a context of uncertainty, on December 15, at Campus Condorcet.
Thesis defense – Martial VIALLEIX
"Urban Planning Put to the Test of Territorial Metabolism", on 18 December 2025 at Campus Condorcet.
Historic Urban Landscapes in Comparison: Budapest and Rio de Janeiro
The Conceptual Evolution of the Urban Landscape in World Heritage Cities. An essay by Gábor Oláh, Gábor Sonkoly and Luciano Torres Tricárico.
Modern and contemporary Europe
A volume that invites readers to reconsider the central paradigms of European urban history. Edited by Dorothee Brantz and Gábor Sonkoly.
Plural Values of Culture in Europe
The main results of the European project UNCHARTED. A volume co-edited by Gábor Sonkoly.
