Projects
Projects FNS
MGM+e
FNS SCANLA
2009 - 2012
Applicant : UNIL
Other partners : Neuchatel, Salzburg
10001A-159420/1 - Logiiccs
Applicant : C. Rozenblat
Chinese and Indian growth in term of demography and economic development was the most explosive in the world at the end of the 20th century. This rapid growth not only affects their proper territories and economies, but as well through economic networks, it transforms directly and indirectly the whole world urban and economic systems. Thus, increasing knowledge about the possible futures of these two urban systems and developing a better understanding of the conditions for a more balanced urban development, are a major issue for all the cities and territories of the world.
The aim of this research is to assess the dynamic peculiarities of Chinese and Indian urbanization during the last four decades in order to develop different scenarios in simulation models that will explore their possible future developments and changing positions in the world system. Starting in a first step to consolidate urban standardized databases, the work program enables to specify in a second step, the originality of the urban processes and the structure and dynamics of systems of cities in these two countries, through a rigorous comparison of urban growth and socio-economic profiles trajectories with the insertion of each city inside economic and innovative global networks built by multinational firms and collaborations for patents. The evolution trends observed at different points in time since the 1960s will be analyzed from a solid theoretical background on urban system dynamics. This will serve as a benchmark to assess the potential changes brought by the recent enlarged integration in the globalization due to the development of multinational networks. Because of the availability of information, we shall analyze these evolutions of multinational firms' networks and patents collaborations between 2000 and 2016 (including 3 intermediary dates). In a third step, generic and adapted simulation models will be designed to evaluate the possible consequences of Chinese and Indian cities' participation to global systems on the future trend
SIRIUS 2016-2017
Swiss Indian Research program on the globalization of the Indian Urban Systems
The SIRIUS project aims at understanding the multi-scalar factors driving the process of innovation spill over in Indian industrial clusters in comparison to other parts of the World (Nelson & Nelson, 2002; Bathelt & Glückler, 2011). We addressed this issue by combining an analysis of local embeddedness of industrial clusters and their interactions with global networks of multinational firms and co-patenting in which these clusters are inserted in relation with urban systems properties.
European Programs
Multiplex
ESPON FOCI
2008 - 2010
Applicant : ULB - IGEAT
Other partners : Varsaw, Barcelona, Bristol, Athens, Strasbourg, Lille, Paris
ANR-SPANGEO
2005 - 2009
Applicant : UNIL
Other partners : INRIA-Bordeaux, INRETS-Lille, Utrecht, Torino, Thessaloniki, Paris, Prague
MEDIUM- 2015-2018
Other partners : Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS Hangzhou Normal University HZNU Institut d'Etudes Politiques d'Aix en Provence IEPAIX Università Ca' Foscari Venezia UNIVE Spatial Foresight GmbH S4S Université de Lausanne UNIL Université de Neuchât
The MEDIUM project is founded by EUROPE/AID.
New pathways for sustainable urban development in China's medium-sized cities
中国中等城市可持续发展的新路径
Link to the website of the MEDIUM project
The MEDIUM project brings together European and Chinese entities (research centres, universities and companies), which work on sustainable urban development in China. Focusing on a large city and two medium-sized cities (1 to 3 million inhabitants), Hangzhou, Zhuhai and Datong, the project's innovation is twofold: first it addresses urban sustainability from a socio-economic dimension and not only through the prism of environmental issues. Second it operates in fast-developing urban areas overlooked by scholars in comparison with China largest cities.MEDIUM gathers researchers with very different backgrounds and interests, among which urban governance, strategic planning, urban mobility, inclusion of migrants, ICT or networks of multinational corporations.
Applying various approaches and methodologies, the project will contribute to better understand urban development dynamics in Chinese medium-sized cities so as to inform decision-makers and economic actors. It will allow innovative ideas to emerge and give rise to alternative patterns of urban development, smart, sustainable and socially inclusive.
Multiplex
Contracts and Mandates
DATAR - Comparative analysis of European Metropolises
2010 - 2011
grant-giving organisation : DATAR (France)
Applicant : Consortium
Other partners : ULB, ENPC Paris, UMR Geographie-cités
