Doctorant
Laboratoire Image, Ville, Environnement
Faculté de Géographie et d'Aménagement
3 rue de l'Argonne - 67000 STRASBOURG
Bureau 417
Laboratoire Image, Ville, Environnement
Faculté de Géographie et d'Aménagement
3 rue de l'Argonne - 67000 STRASBOURG
Bureau 417
Interests: Urban studies | Social geography | Mobilities | Spatial data science | Participation | Territorial politics
My dissertation examines the connections between urban planning and access theory. Access is usually defined as the ability to make use of available resources within a given environment. By referring to capacities rather than rights, this notion emphasizes the constraints individuals may face in their daily lives, for instance when accessing housing or transportation. Cities and infrastructures shape many of these constraints. Determined by the competition for opportunities embedded in density, they act as catalysts for social inequalities and, therefore, underlie various political concerns including the right to the city. Spanning both social geography and urban studies, the first chapters provide a synthetic overview of three moral perspectives based on distributive justice (i), the principle of autonomy (ii), and the recognition of disabilities (iii). Empirically, these perspectives respectively refer to access materialized through the combined form of physical, cognitive, and cost-related efforts; the individual and collective appropriations of urban spaces, which I link to the motility concept; and accessibility institutionalized through norms and regulations. Subsequent parts review their practical application with regard to the assessment of efforts that access entails (redistributive aspect) and the definition of accessibility standards framing mobility planning (procedural aspect). These include two critical quantitative studies conducted in French contexts: one employs accessibility as a ‘combined capability’ and questions the evaluation of inequalities arising from suburbanization; the other focuses on healthcare availability. Their results detail a set of disparities structuring the rural-urban continuum and suggest a fine-scale inquiry into their (mis)perceptions. Supported by a participatory methodology, the final section utilizes topological data collected in Strasbourg and Brussels to simultaneously analyse the physical infrastructure —particularly public transport— and configurations governing the ‘integration’ of persons with reduced mobility. The study explores through forty-eight expert interviews and commented walks the heterogeneity of the concerned populations. In order to comprehend the common experiences of movement, one chapter expounds on the development of an interactive atlas mapping the meso-effects potentially caused by some access constraints observed. I eventually discuss the use of such visualizations as an advocacy tool for citizens' associations.
2021-2025: Université de Strasbourg, PhD in Geography and Planning.
2017-2021: ENS de Lyon, major in Geography.
2015-2017: Khâgne B/L, Lycée Lakanal (Grand Paris).