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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.
Thesis Defense – Congcong Li
"Institutional Mechanisms of Financing Transport Infrastructure in China — Comparative Lessons from the “Rail Plus Property” Model in Shenzhen and Nanjing", on December 15, 2025, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Squat All Over the World
This international conference will take place on 8–9 January 2026 at Campus Condorcet (Aubervilliers, France).
Thesis defense – Ceyda SUNGUR
Pendulum of Survival: Socio-spatial Practices of Women Cleaning Workers in Istanbul, 24 November 2025, at Campus Condorcet.
Queer Exile
Screening and discussion on 2 December at Sciences Po, with the participation of Florent Chossière.
Thesis defense – Martial VIALLEIX
"Urban Planning Put to the Test of Territorial Metabolism", on 18 December 2025 at Campus Condorcet.
Thesis defense – Camile DABESTANI
Remaking the Caribbean. Student representations and appropriations of macro-regional imaginaries in a postcolonial context (Guadeloupe, Martinique). 27 November at campus Condorcet.
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.
Sandrine Robert in Residence at the Maison Française d’Oxford
As part of her residency at the Maison Française d’Oxford, Sandrine Robert will give two lectures on 21 November and 4 December.
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.
Thesis defense – Thibaud BAGES
French regions and economic sector policies: a new planning model? Strategies and tools for developing hydrogen activity by the Hauts-de-France, Occitanie and Pays de la Loire regions. On November 21, 2025 at Maison de la recherche (Paris).
Thesis defense – Jean MAKHLOUTA
Carving Out a Place in the City. Mobilities and Spatial Strategies of Sexual and Gender Minorities in Beirut. Monday, 17 November at Campus Condorcet.
Thesis defense – Alexandra Mallah
Geography of the invisibles : the territories of Women's Memory. November 14, Campus Condorcet.
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.
Thesis defense – Mathilde PEDRO
Planning and Managing Transport Hubs in a Context of Sectoral and Territorial Reforms: A comparison between France, England, and the Netherlands.November 4, 2025 at Campus Condorcet.
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.
Florent Chossière, visiting researcher at the University of Sussex
Florent Chossière will take part in several key events organized by the Sussex Centre for Migration Research (SCMR).
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, M. Pedro.
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 energy production.
