Today, we celebrated our newest international collaboration! Caroline Nowacki, an alum of the International Urbanization Seminar, introduced us to her alma mater ESSEC—also known as the École Supérieure des Sciences Économiques et Commerciales. It is one of France's top business schools, located some 30 kilometers west of Paris.
For this project exploring social inequity in urban areas, we are collaborating with Patrice Noisette, the Academic Director of the Advanced Master's degree in Urban, Environmental and Services Management. The students in his class this fall are studying "Strategic and Operational Urban Development," including a set of lessons focusing on deprived urban areas, and social and economic renewal.
For this project exploring social inequity in urban areas, we are collaborating with Patrice Noisette, the Academic Director of the Advanced Master's degree in Urban, Environmental and Services Management. The students in his class this fall are studying "Strategic and Operational Urban Development," including a set of lessons focusing on deprived urban areas, and social and economic renewal.
We are very proud to have Caroline return to our classroom as a guest lecturer. She oriented everyone to ESSEC as an institution and Paris as the city of study. We then watched a set of videos the ESSEC students created, based on their observations of Paris and the twin phenomena of "Gentrification" and "Urban Deprivation." The Stanford students will be making similar mind maps and videos explaining manifestations of social inequity in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Some questions the ESSEC videos address include:
Some questions the ESSEC videos address include:
- "How does it happen?" Some districts witness a multi-factor process of decay, whereas others encounter uncontrollable gentrification
- "How can we design a strategy to counter these tendencies?"
- "What kind of tools should be used?"
As soon as the first video played, featuring a handsome French student, the delighted giggles from the Stanford side rang out. Ah ... this will be an interesting exchange!
— Posted by Kevin Hsu
UPDATE: The content of the ESSEC-Stanford exchange can be found here: france.internationalurbanization.org
— Posted by Kevin Hsu
UPDATE: The content of the ESSEC-Stanford exchange can be found here: france.internationalurbanization.org