Thirty Years of Urban Sociology

Christian Topalov & translated by Oliver Waine — 2015-10-30T06:00:00Z

What is urban sociology in France? Christian Topalov, one of the key players in the history of this discipline, looks back on the two key periods during which the label “urban sociology” came into its own: the 1970s, and the era that heralded the “problem of the banlieues” from the early 1980s onwards – two periods in which academics' and public policymakers' visions of the city coincided.
Translated with the support of the Institut Français Series: Urban Studies in France “The city is what

- Essays / France, suburbs, public policy, urban knowledge, sociology, state, urban sociology

Metropolitics

Thirty Years of Urban Sociology