Governing urban platform capitalism. The contentious regulation of short-term rental housing in European cities – a comparative approach.- Professor Claire Colomb

Date: 27 November 2024
Time: 18:00 -19:30
Speaker: Professor Claire Colomb
Talk Title: 'Governing urban platform capitalism. The contentious regulation of short-term rental housing in European cities – a comparative approach'
Location: Ramsden Room, St Catharine's College

The seminar series is supported by the Cambridge Journal of Economics and the Economics and Policy Group at the Cambridge Judge Business School.

Speaker Overview::
Claire Colomb is Professor of Land Economy (Planning, Public Policy and Urban Studies) at the University of Cambridge. She has a first degree in Social and Political Sciences from Sciences Po Paris (1998) and a PhD in Town Planning from University College London (2008). She is a chartered Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute (MRTPI) and elected Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS). Prior to joining the University of Cambridge, she was Professor of Urban Studies and Planning at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London (2005-2023), where she remains a honorary professor, and project developer for the European transnational co-operation programme INTERREG IIIB North-West Europe (2002-2004). Over the past 25 years she has lived, worked and researched in France, the UK, Germany and Spain.

She is the author of the book Staging the New Berlin: Place Marketing and the Politics of Urban Reinvention post-1989 (Routledge, 2011); co-author of the book European Spatial Planning and Territorial Cooperation (Routledge, 2010, with S. Dühr and V. Nadin), and co-editor of Protest and Resistance in the Tourist City (Routledge, 2016, with J. Novy). She is the Co-President (2023-2027) (with Prof. Alberta Andreotti) of RC21, the Research Committee on the Sociology of Urban and Regional Development of the International Sociological Association (ISA), the leading international scientific network in urban sociology and urban studies. Her expertise and research interests span urban and regional planning; public policy; urban studies, politics and sociology in an international comparative perspective.