Current position at LVMT
PhD candidate at the University of Paris-East since September 2009.
Current Research
Change of residence and travel practices: the cases of Chicago, Paris and Santiago.
In large urban systems, increased monetary and temporal efforts for transportation and housing negatively affect the quality of urban life; they also deepen socio-spatial segregation and labor market segmentation. Thus, cities may lose simultaneously in attractiveness and productivity. As suggested by many theoretical works, particularly in literature around the ’excess commuting’, the strategic redistribution of workers’ residences could reduce their travel distances. However, some authors consider that job proximity is not decisive for households’ choice of location. Our hypothesis is that the reduction of travel distances plays a role in accommodation choice, but supply side constraints, costs and rigidity of the housing market, impose a forced remoteness to populations.
Preliminary results suggest that reducing travel distances would be a central criterion for the choice of accommodation in large urban systems and that remoteness to daily activities could be due mainly to land rent gradients and housing shortages in central areas. They also highlight the stakes involved in the spatial orientation of housing policies and land use coordination at the metropolitan scale.
Research topics
Urban travel practices, accomodation choice, residential and transportation trade-offs. Interactions between transport and housing systems.
Connection with ongoing LVMT team 1 projects
This research is integrated within the concept of coherent urban planning: improving the spatial relations between enterprises, households and transport systems, aiming to improve the efficiency and living conditions in urban systems.
