Claire Colomb

Claire Colomb is a professor in planning, public policy and urban studies at the University of Cambridge, Department of Land Economy. Her research interests span urban studies, urban politics, urban and political sociology, planning and public policy in an international comparative perspective. She is the author of the book Staging the New Berlin: Place Marketing and the Politics of Urban Reinvention post‑1989 (Routledge, 2011); co‑author of the book Housing Under Platform Capitalism. The Contentious Regulation of Short-Term Rentals in European Cities (University of California Press, 2025, with Thomas Aguilera and Francesca Artioli); co‑author of European Spatial Planning and Territorial Cooperation (Routledge, 2010, with Stefanie Dühr and Vincent Nadin); and co‑editor of Protest and Resistance in the Tourist City (Routledge, 2016, with Johannes Novy). She has a first degree in social and political sciences from Sciences Po Paris (1998), a PhD in town planning from University College London (2008), and an MSc in politics from SOAS University of London (2024).