État et dynamiques de la recherche en sociologie urbaine en Communauté française de Belgique

The author attempts to provide a dynamic state of research in urban sociology in French-speaking Belgium. Four key points emerge in the late nineties and early two thousand ten. First, the research is largely influenced by the metropolisation process that affects relations to space in Wallonia and Brussels. Dynamics research is secondly affected by the evolution of the university as a result of rationalization driven by the Bologna reform, the emergence of doctoral schools and finally the integration of architecture in the university. Third, the research funding is increasingly territorialized... Mehr ...