Cécile Tannier presents the Fractal model and its impact on how urban forms and spatial organisation are approached in urban studies and planning. Reflecting critically on scale invariance and optimality, she shows how and why fractal models enable us to better understand how space is organised through scales and how urban planning can modify this spatial organisation in a fractal manner, accounting for the effects of distance and scale dependence. See the video on the YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbXVD-lwollN5yxX_0J-hbg

The defense will take place the 7th december at 14:30  at the "Grand salon", UFR SLHS, 32 rue Megevand in Besancon. This work was co-directed by Jean-Christophe Foltête (ThéMA) and Stéphane Garnier (Biogéosciences). Funding: CIFRE thesis with the company ARP-Astrance, Paris   Defense jury Stéphanie Manel, Professor, EPHE, UMR CEFE, Montpellier Eric Petit, Director of Research, INRAE, UMR ESE, Rennes Laurence Després, Professor, Université Grenoble Alpes, UMR LECA, Grenoble Laurent Bergès, research ingenior,  INRAE, UR LESSEM, Saint-Martin-d’Hères Hervé Moal,...

When new lifestyles disrupt daily mobility in England   By exploring data relating to England from the UK National Travel Survey between 2002 and 2017, this research led by Benjamin Motte-Baumvol was able to refine the analysis of daily mobility usually carried out in France (where surveys are based on one “typical day”) by considering the variability of travel over a whole week, which reflects our increasingly fragmented lives more authentically. Thanks to new “remote” practices enabled by the development of telework and online shopping, we can perform our activities in a greater...

The defense will take place in Dijon at the University of Burgundy on december 14th   This work was directed by Thomas Thevenin, Associate researcher "HDR" ThéMA and Yves Richard, Associate researcher "HDR", Biogéoscience-CRC. The defense can be followed online by : http://desktop.visio.renater.fr/scopia?ID=727610***8300&autojoin Code d'accès : 8300 (terminer par #)   Defense jury Houet Thomas, Director of Research "HDR" CNRS, LETG, Rennes Masson Valéry,  Director of Research HDR, GMME/VILLE, CNRM, Toulouse Cantat Olivier, Associate researcher, LETG,...

François Sémécurbe is defending his PhD thesis : Analysis of the spatial distribution of human settlements : Contributions and limitations of multi-scale and trans-scale indicators   The defense will take place in Besançon at the University of Franche-Comté at Salon Préclin, UFR SLHS on september 25th at 2 pm.   This work was directed by Cécile Tannier, Senior researcher at CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research).   Defense jury Elsa Arcaute - Associate professor, CASA, University College London Giovanni Fusco - Associate researcher "HDR" at CNRS,...

Jean Houssemand is defending his PhD thesis : Conceptualization and evaluation of a typology of vertical housing concept for sustainable urban planning   The defense will take place in Dijon at the University of Burgundia at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Salle des Thèses (6 Esplanade Erasme), on february 14th at 14pm.   This work was directed by Jean-Philippe Antoni, Professor at the University of Burgundy, laboratory ThéMA.   Defense jury Denis Bocquet, Professor at the National School of Architecture of Strasbourg Éric Charmes, Director of Research at...

Seydou Ba is defending his PhD thesis : The issue of viability and socio-economic development in institutional territories facing administrative divisions in Senegal   The defense will take place in Besançon at the Salon Preclin, UFR SLHS on decembre 16th at 10am. This work was directed by Alexandre Moine, Professor at the University of Franche-Comté, laboratory ThéMA.   Defense jury Frédéric Giraut, Professor at the University of Geneva, Switzerland Jean-Christophe Gay, Professor at the University of Sophia-Antipolis, Nice, France Stéphanie Lima, Lecturer at the INU...

An interdisciplinary research work between urban planning and language sciences now published in the journal Urban Studies   Thomas Buhler, laboratory ThéMA and Virgnie Lethier, ELLIADD (University of Franche-Comté) present a new method which opens up research perspectives for the coming years. For several decades now, French cities - like many others around the world - regularly publish urban planning documents in which their strategies are expressed for the next 5, 10 or even 15 years. These documents concern particular themes (transport, land use regulations, housing, etc.). Begun...

Maxime Colomb is defending his PhD thesis entitled "Multi-scale simulation of realistic forms of residential development from the parcel to the metropolitan area".    The defense will take place at the Université Paris Est, in the IGN (Institut Géographique National), 73 avenue de Paris, Saint Mandé on September 27th, 2019.   This work was directed by Julien Perret, Senior researcher, IGN (French national Geographic Institute) and Cécile Tannier, Senior researcher at CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research), Laboratoire ThéMA and co-directed by Mickaël...

Badra Merrad Benyamina is defending her PhD thesis "Space Movements and Mutations in Algiers" in Dijon   The defense will take place at the MSH of Dijon on July 1st at 14h30. This work was directed by André Larceneux, Emeritus Professor at the University of Borgogne and co-directed by Tahar Baouni, Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique d’Architecture et d’Urbanisme (EPAU-Alger), laboratoire VUDD   Defense jury Corinne Blanquart, Director of Research at IFSTTAR,Planning, Mobilities and Environment Department Marie-Hélene Massot, Professor at the University...