Work group 6 – Territorial dynamics, cities and mobilities

Coordinators: Philippe Hamman and Thierry Ramadier

Permanent members: Luisa Arango (MCF), Vincent Beal (MCF), Maurice Blanc (PR émérite), Anaïs Collet (MCF), Géraldine Djament (MCF), Bénédicte Gérard (MCF), Isabelle Hajek (MCF), Philippe Hamman (PR), Alexandre Kostka (PR), Fabien Paulus (MCF), Jean-Luc Piermay (PR émérite), Thierry Ramadier (DR CNRS), Josiane Stoessel (PR), Maurice Wintz (MCF), Patricia Zander (MCF HDR), Jean Zoungrana (PAST)

This work group combines sociological, demographic, geographic, psychological and urban planning approaches to address public policy and environmental issues in an interdisciplinary fashion, using comparative social science methods and focusing most specifically on environment in sustainable development in urban policies.

The research conducted in this work group will be particularly attentive to the territorial, urban and public policy levels involved in public planning and development. These different geographic and sociological levels of observation and action (those of the actors and social groups studied) will be used to understand cities through their processes of transformation and expansion, with particular attention to the process of blurring and disappearance of borders that currently characterizes them. This brings a new approach to classical questions of urban sociology such as social cohesion, social structure and mobilities, both social and geographic. To achieve this general objective, we will first focus on infra-urban levels such as neighborhoods, where the divisions between urban and suburban spaces are being reconfigured (the so-called at-risk neighborhoods and their precarious populations, eco-neighborhoods as new socio-spatial divisions, the “compact city” and the management of real estate…). We will also address the urban level and the increasingly numerous and institutionalized inter-local cooperation perimeters at regional and sometimes transnational levels (in border areas). Reference is very frequently made to Europe and the EU at different levels, but with varying objectives that deserve closer scrutiny. Acting both as a frame, a constraint and a resource, the European dimension of territorial and urban policies poses the question of the Europeanization of social practices. On a more global level of analysis, North-South territorial policies will be investigated, drawing on cultural approaches of different zones, particularly in ethnological terms to get a better handle on the cultural specificities of the global phenomena of urbanization, economic specialization and competition of urban areas.

Methodology will be in consequence resolutely comparative, in a manner consistent with the empirical approaches studying relationships between these scales of analysis, particularly by studying mobilities between urban spaces and within the evolving visible and invisible borders inside urban areas.

Research contracts in progress:

• NAchhaltige VErringerung des Biozideintrags in das Grundwasser am Oberrhein (NAVEBGO) / Réduction de l’apport de biocides dans les eaux souterraines du Rhin supérieur (Interreg 2019-2021)
  Co-responsable : Maurice WINTZ

• Regionale Lösungen für Erneuerbare-Energie-Systeme in der Trinationalen Metropolregion Oberrhein (TMO) – RES_TMO / Solutions régionales pour des systèmes d’énergie renouvelable dans la Région Métropolitaine Trinationale du Rhin Supérieur (RMT) (Interreg 2019-2021)
  Co-responsable : Philippe HAMMAN

• “Synergies and potentials of an integrated renewable energy supply and storage system in the Upper Rhine Region. An interdisciplinary perspective” (SIRES-URR), (2018 ) projet trinational autour des énergies renouvelables, soutenu par EUCOR-Le Campus Européen, associant les Universités de Freiburg, Strasbourg, Bâle, Karlsruhe et Mulhouse. Porté par l'UMR SAGE pour Strasbourg.
  Chercheurs engagés: Philippe HAMMAN (responsable), Sophie GAMBARDELLA, Élisabeth LAMBERT

• Responsabilité de l’axe de sciences sociales « Gouvernance » et membre, représentant l’Unistra, du Board international du réseau Upper Rhine cluster in sustainability research / Cluster de recherche en durabilité du Rhin Supérieur (INTERREG V, 2016-2019). Ce projet structurant associe l’ensemble des établissements universitaires et de recherche de l’espace du Rhin supérieur : Universités de Bâle, de Freiburg im Breisgau, de Karlsruhe, de Landau, de Strasbourg et de Haute-Alsace, ainsi que le CNRS, l’ENSA de Strasbourg, ainsi que l’ENGEES.
  Philippe HAMMAN

• Circulations et renouvellement des savoirs sur la nature et l’environnement en France et en Allemagne : questionner les Humanités environnementales
  Programme de formation-recherche 2016-2018 du Centre interdisciplinaire d’études et de recherches sur l’Allemagne (CIERA)
  Équipe franco-allemande d’organisation : Aurélie Choné, Philippe Hamman, Catherine Repussard, Maurice Wintz, Gabriele Dürbeck, Tim Freytag, Michael Pregernig, Evi Zemanek

• Réseaux Émergents de Lutte contre le GAspillage (RELGA) - ADEME (2016-2018)
  Responsable scientifique : Isabelle HAJEK

Research contracts completed :

• Politiques urbaines alternatives pour les villes en déclin (ALTERGROWTH) - ANR
  Vincent BEAL et Nicolas CAUCHI DUVAL
  
• Strasbourg, laboratoire d’avenir (1880-1930). Nouvelles perspectives pour penser et présenter un “patrimoine artistique d’appartenance controversée” entre France et Allemagne - Fellowship USIAS Idex (2015-2017)
  Alexandre KOTSKA

•  “Sustainable and Cost-Effective Management of Space in Small and Mid-Sized Upper Rhine Municipalities”, INTERREG
  Patricia ZANDER

• “Sustainable Development and Social Cohesion”, IRD & CPU, Institut français d'Algérie
  

• Portraits d'AzubiBacPro" - FEFA et  Forum Vies Mobiles SNCF (2016-2017)
  Vincent GOULET

• Etude de représentation du Lynx dans le Parc naturel régional des Vosges du Nord (2015-2016)
  Maurice WINTZ

• Les arrangements conjugaux autour de la garde des jeunes enfants - DREES (2014-2016)
  Anaïs COLLET et Pierre GILBERT
  

• “The Literature on Nature. Writings and Production of Knowledge on Nature in Modern and Contemporary Europe”, Programme MISHA (2013-2016)
  Isabelle HAJEK et Philippe HAMMAN

• “Renewable Energies: Planning Tools and Social Acceptation”INTERREG
  Philippe HAMMAN

• “Conception and Industrialization of High Energy Performance, High Environmental Quality and High Social Quality Building Modules”, FUI FEDER
  Philippe HAMMAN

• “Residential Multilocality in the Upper Rhine Region: The State of the Art”, GIS Mondes germaniques
  Philippe HAMMAN

• “‘Overriding Public Interest’ in the Field of Environment: How Local Development Projects in Alsace Face the Legal and Environmental Constraints of a Multi-Scalar Concept”, CIFRE Conseil Général du Bas-Rhin
  Philippe HAMMAN

• “Northern Cities, Southern Cities”, Conseil Scientifique de l'Université de Strasbourg
  Isabelle HAJEK

• “Resident Participation in Strasbourg”, Convention CIFRE Communauté Urbaine de Strasbourg
  Maurice BLANC

• "Interférences, intersections, interactions - l'architecture en Alsace entre Paris et Berlin (1871-1918) - PHC Procope
  Alexandre KOSTKA

• "ACROSS", Fond National pour la Recherche du Luxembourg
  Thierry RAMADIER