Martine Drozdz

Martine Drozdz is a geographer and a CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research) research fellow within the LATTS joint research unit (Laboratoire Techniques, Territoires et Sociétés – Techniques, Territories and Societies Laboratory; UMR CNRS 8134). She teaches at the École d’Urbanisme de Paris (Paris School of Urban Planning) and Sciences Po Paris, after having previously taught at the London School of Economics (LSE) and the Bartlett School of Planning in London, UK; at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, France; and at the University of Geneva in Switzerland.

Her work concerns the rehabilitation of metropolitan urban spaces, in an approach attentive to the challenges of urban democracy. Since her PhD thesis, titled “Regeneration b(d)oom. Territoires et politique de la régénération urbaine par projet à Londres (1973–2014)” (“Regeneration B(D)oom. Territories and Politics of Project-Based Urban Regeneration in London (1973–2014)”), her work has focused on France and the United Kingdom from a comparative perspective.

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