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Under the direction of Prof. Vincent Kaufmann, Laboratory of Urban Sociology (LaSUR) comprises of around fifteen researchers and PhD students united towards the comprehension of urban experiences within a social science perspective.
Situated within the EPFL and the ENAC Faculty (Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering), the LaSUR researches the social conditions that produce and appropriate cities or territories, collaborating intensively with its partners in engineering and architecture.
The LaSUR confronts urban phenomena through the mobility capacities of its actors. In this perspective, the principal research themes are daily mobility, residential history, the dynamics of suburbanization and gentrification, public space, and network management.
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More than half of the Earth’s population is urbanized and cities, the setting-world of modernity, are now accepted as the decisive norm of human settlement. Yet the reality of urbanity today is multi-faceted and reveals a wide diversity and complexity of urban models and forms. Fragmented, divided, segregated, chaotic, violent, as destructed as it is constructed, the city is likewise a place of innovation, creation and cultural struggle—a space that architecture, urban planning and the social and spatial sciences are striving to understand.
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The research group n°23 from AISLF called "Mobilités spatiales et fluidités sociales" organised its 2012 conference in Lausanne (Switzerland) the 30-31 October 2012. The conference deals with the topic of mobility representations and imaginaries. If you are interested in, we invite you to download the call for papers and to submit a proposition.
The 2012 conference is co-organised with the Cosmobilities conference. More information on Cosmobilities. http://www.cosmobilities.net/
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