Organization

Géographie-cités is organized into three teams —CRIA, TERMS, and PARIS—, five Transversal Team Collaborations and three Working groups.

The teams develop both their own research and common themes. Scientific exchanges between the three teams are structured around five Transversal Team Collaborations designed to encourage interaction and knowledge sharing between researchers, at the scale of a very large, multi-site, multi-tutelle joint research unit (UMR). The three working groups address the specific needs of the scientific project and the day-to-day functioning of the UMR.

The work of the CRIA team prioritizes an approach where the production of urban planning and development is conceived as a chain of collective and organized actions from various sectors that contribute to the transformation of space, territories, and living environments. Consideration is given to the reciprocal effects of these transformations. The question of production, approached from an interdisciplinary perspective, impels an analysis articulating actors, tools, and materialities.

Through its work, the TERMS team aims to contribute to the renewal underway in the social sciences in terms of consideration of not only the differences between the world’s regions and the practicability of universal categories of analysis, but also the relevance of divisions between cultural zones and their performative effects, the long-term dynamics in regional relationships with change, and the articulation between structures and ability of stakeholders to act.

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The challenge of this transversal team collaboration is to examine the way in which mobility structures and shapes territories, and conversely how territories construct mobility.

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At the crossroads of geography and urban planning, this transversal team collaboration explores the processes of production, transformation, and appropriation of urban spaces by a simultaneous examination of collective action and the spatial practices of city dwellers.

The DPHN Transversal Team Collaboration aims to federate research that mobilizes emerging, heterogeneous, or massive data to measure socio-spatial dynamics, to cross-reference and compare them with other sources, to model, visualize, or critically analyze their uses.

Once a month, the Fieldwork and Writing Workshop offers PhD students help in implementing and analyzing survey work as well as writing different types of texts (articles, thesis outline, thesis introduction, responses to calls for papers, etc.).

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The mission of the Digital Communications Working Group is to develop the UMR’s presence on digital media.

This working group has been formed around two main objectives: bridging the gap between young researchers and former UMR doctoral students, and audiovisual production.