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Éric Charmes

Éric Charmes is a research director (EVS-RIVES, University of Lyon, ENTPE). A specialist in urban studies and urbanism, he has worked extensively on street uses, public spaces, gated communities, and residential territorialization. Today, he focuses on the peripheries of large metropolises. icon

It’s the Geography, Stupid! Planetary Urbanization Revealed

By Éric Charmes & Max Rousseau

Covid-19 spread so rapidly because urbanization is now planetary: connecting disparate territories through flows of goods and people.

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