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Urban Sociology Laboratory

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The Laboratory of Urban Sociology (LASUR) at EPFL, led by Prof. Vincent Kaufmann, focuses on understanding urban experiences from a social science perspective. LASUR researches social conditions shaping cities, emphasizing daily mobility, residential history, suburbanization, gentrification, public space, and network management. Ongoing projects include studying public benches' impact on urban quality of life and implementing difference-oriented urban planning to promote inclusion in cities. Collaborating with partners in engineering and architecture, LASUR's work contributes to developing seating policies, analyzing urban planning mechanisms in European cities, and training researchers in rural-urban place-making.

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Yves Pedrazzini

Yves Pedrazzini is MER / Senior Scientist in the Laboratory of Urban Sociology (LaSUR), Faculty of Natural, Architectural and Build Environment (ENAC) of the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne (EPFL). For more than 20 years, he analyses urban dynamics, social practices, urban cultures, violence and insecurity phenomena, in North and South countries. In 1987, he began ethnographical studies of youth armed gangs in Latin-American slums, developing innovative qualitative methods to make them real protagonists of the research process. Since 1997, Yves Pedrazzini added to his urban experience in Latin America (Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Mexico, Venezuela) new expertise of African urban contexts (Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Senegal). He published many books and articles on urban violence and Security/insecurity issues, from a sociological and anthropological point of view.

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