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Francesca ARTIOLI

Associate Professor, Coordinator of the International Master in Urban Planning and Studies, track 'European Cities' (Master 2 Urbanisme et Expertise internationale, option 'European Cities').

Research Unit: Lab'URBA.

Topics:

  • Comparative Land and Housing Policies: land use planning, housing systems, short-term rental housing regulation, energy retrofit of the built environment
  • Multi-level Politics and Governance: local politics, metropolitan governance, land owenrs and business power in cities, central-local governments’ relations
  • Urban Political Economy: fiscal consolidation, public real estate privatization, urban platform capitalism, housing assetization

Research:

I am senior lecturer (maîtresse de conférences) in Spatial Planning and Urban Policies at the Ecole d'Urbanisme de Paris (Université Paris Est-Créteil) and a researcher at the Lab'Urba. My overarching interest is in the politics of land, housing, and real estate property as matters of political regulation, collective action, and governance arrangements involving the state, interest groups, social movements and firms. I have researched the urban and multi-level regulation of short-term rental housing, of investment into real estate, of public land privatisations, and of the energy retrofit of public buildings. I am particularly interested in the capacity of urban governments to democratically steer the transformation of land and housing when facing macroscale political-economic transformations such as austerity and state retrenchment, and the platformization and assetisation of capitalism. I am also interested in the forms and organisations of property owners and rentier power. My research draws on poltical sociology, comparative political economy, and urban studies. I hold a PhD in political science from Sciences Po Paris (2014). Previous to my current position, I have been a temporary lecturer (ATER) at Sciences Po Bordeaux (2013-2015) and invited post-doc at the University of Oxford (OxPo Programme, 2015-2016).

Her personal page on the website of the Lab'URBA.
Her page on CCSD.

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