Teaching © Alexandre Gonzalez, 2019 The list below lists all the courses given at EPFL in which the Urban Sociology Laboratory is involved.Social justice and transition in the urban context (EN)This course explores the connections between spatial justice, social equity, and the socio-ecological transition. Through theoretical insights and empirical case studies, it provides tools to critically assess urban transformations and imagine fairer and more hospitable cities.Computational methods in urban studies (EN)CMUS will focus on acquiring insights into, engaging with, and modeling the processes of spatial transformation in contemporary societies. It will integrate statistical techniques and critical urban theory in order to promote socially and environmentally fair policies against the climate crisis.Urban sociology (FR)This course aims to familiarize students with urban sociology through the lens of housing. It enables them to navigate the concepts, tools, and methods the discipline offers to understand the simultaneous evolution of lifestyles and the spatial and political organization of territory. DemanUrbanism and Territories (FR)This course adopts an approach based on the deconstruction of urban complexity to deal with urban planning and territories, using a systemic method.City and mobility (FR)The City and Mobility course focuses on the basic knowledge of mobility, starting from lifestyles to inform architecture and engineering. In particular, it explores how cities and mobility are co-constructed. Urban governance (EN)This course equips students with the tools for action and influence within institutional systems, drawing on the fields of sociology, political science, and social psychology. It explores how to better convince decision-makers, shift behaviors, and design more effective and impactful public policiesUrban habitat and developement (FR)Focusing on the forms of habitat of the most disadvantaged in the countries of the South and the North and the contexts of crises, in particular emergency architecture, the course offers a critical analysis of the urbanisation of the world in the 21st century.Spatial and Regional Economy (FR)An introductory course designed to provide a historical perspective on the spatial distribution of people and activities.Introduction to research II (FR)Rythmologies. Sociétés et territoires à l’épreuve (FR)Introduction to research I (FR)Diversity and Sustainability in Human Mobility (EN)Human and freight mobility in large cities is a complex process with dense population and many transport modes to compete for limited space. New emerging modes of transport, such as on-demand services, and new technologies, such as autonomous vehicles, create additional opportunities and challenges.Night in Lausanne (FR)This course will take an interdisciplinary approach to night in Lausanne. Through a nocturnal journey, we will take stock of the city as it exists at night time. During the week, we’ll collectively reflect on the future of nights in Lausanne, and present our initial ideas. Chantier urbain : perception, gouvernance, usages (FR)This week ENAC aims to apprehend urban construction sites as key moments in the territorial fabric, in the articulation between urban planning and the effective implementation of a vision for the territory. The city-tree (FR)This ENAC week is an invitation to question how cities are reinventing their relationship with living and natural entities, focusing in particular on the question of trees. UE C : Habitat and society (FR)By articulating theoretical and architectural knowledge with socio-political knowledge, the UE aims to explore the possibility of a renewed contemporary imagination around productive housing.Border Forensics (EN)The course will introduce students to different forms of violence related to the existence of state borders and social boundaries, focusing on particular situations in Switzerland, and the way spatial, geostatistical analysis and architectural design can be used to document and contest this violence
