Join us for this semester's At Home and Abroad speaker series, co-organized by the GSD Healthy Places Design Lab, and Healthy places GSD! @amydain.bsky.social @gsd.harvard.edu

Join us for this semester's Planning for Health speaker series, co-organized by the Harvard GSD Healthy Places Design Lab, and Healthy places GSD! @joeallenjoe.bsky.social @gsd.harvard.edu @biobotanalytics.bsky.social

I always start by the acknowledgements section when I read nonfiction. It’s a passion of mine. I do it as meticulously as when I watch the pilot episode of a show, pause and reflect, without jumping into the second episode just yet. I could write an entire essay on pilots and acknowledgments.

Last year, I gave a guest lecture at the London School of Economics about my research at the nexus of housing and health. Immense thank you to colleagues in the sociology department Giulia Torino and David Madden for such a warm welcome.Excited to be sharing this published conceptual paper soon.

For colleagues still tweaking their syllabi for the semester, here's a book recommendation from me: I recently reviewed Cole Stangler Stangler's Paris Is Not Dead: Surviving Gentrification in the City of Light, for the Journal of Planning Education and Research: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

À la veille des élections municipales 2026 en France, heureuse d’avoir co-signé cette tribune dans Le Monde, en tant que membre du collectif Tous Grands Parisiens www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

In an episode of the podcast Housing After Dark, @alexschafran.bsky.social sits down with our former postdoc @magdamaaoui.bsky.social to unpack what the U.S. can learn from France’s approach to housing. @gsd.harvard.edu open.spotify.com/episode/1gY0...

The London opening of the Renée Gailhoustet exhibition at the Architectural Association was featured in another article: www.wallpaper.com/architecture... The book, to which I contributed, will be out in March 2026!

It’s tonight!

Friends in London! New exhibit "Renée Gailhoustet: A Thousand and One Ways of Living" this Friday at the AA. Precedes the release of Renée Gailhoustet, a new book by NVBL, to which I contributed a piece on Gailhoustet's unique role in producing healthy social housing throughout the late 20th century

Friends in London! New exhibit "Renée Gailhoustet: A Thousand and One Ways of Living" this Friday at the AA. Precedes the release of Renée Gailhoustet, a new book by NVBL, to which I contributed a piece on Gailhoustet's unique role in producing healthy social housing throughout the late 20th century

My fellow French and Canadian housers have lately been tuning into very detailed New York City housing politics & provision mechanisms. I gave this interview to make sense of the history, and the future, of New York's housing landscape to European audiences: www.mediapart.fr/journal/inte...

You can read about my research on heat, housing, and environmental health in the 🇫🇷 December 15 edition of @aoc-media.bsky.social, with a preview of my current mixed-methods work on environmental health inequalities in the era of global warming: aoc.media/analyse/2025...

Mon analyse à retrouver dans l’édition du 15 décembre d’ @aoc-media.bsky.social, avant-goût de mes travaux actuels sur les inégalités de santé environnementale à l’ère du réchauffement climatique : aoc.media/analyse/2025...

📣 new collective book alert 📣 I contributed a keynote chapter in a new book on Grand Paris lived infrastructural experiences, published by Theatrum Mundi and dpr-barcelona. Contributions from architects, urbanists, choreographers, and visual artists as part of a LINA European architecture project.

Last month, I was elected to serve on the Boston Society for Architecture Board, alongside an inspiring group of leaders as we advance design’s impact on our city and communities. www.architects.org/news/2025-bs...

Honored to join the Harvard Bloomberg Center for Cities as a faculty affiliate. Looking forward to collaborative and interdisciplinary opportunities to deepen my comparative, transatlantic work at the intersection of the right to housing, health inequalities, and environmental justice.

I joined the Healthy Places Design Lab in 2024 and am now lucky to co-lead it alongside its founders Ann Forsyth and Jennifer Molinsky. More announcements about ongoing research initiatives to come.

I can’t vote in NYC. But one thing I can do is get on French national morning news to talk about Zohran’s promising housing plan, and what it will take to make it happen, when he wins www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur... @franceculture.fr @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

Currently doing some work on Renée Gailhoustet and her pioneer work on French social housing. I put her in the same category of genius as Charlotte Perriand. Any other names that should be included in that group in your opinion?

Any lead from people on their favorite platform for interactive data display: is it flourish, shiny apps, arcgis storymaps, something else altogether I’m not aware of?

spotted 👀 🔎: the book Pour en Finir avec le Grand Paris I co-wrote and published in September 2024, about rethinking Paris from its margins, on display at the Frances Loeb Library this summer @gsd.harvard.edu

For the first iteration of the course "At Home and Abroad: Housing in Comparative Perspective", students surpassed themselves as we looked into lessons from elsewhere to fix New York City’s housing crisis--in partnership with the @urbandesignforum.bsky.social. ▶️ www.gsd.harvard.edu/publication/...

Was at a terrific @yimbytown.bsky.social panel about the type of data-based research that practitioners & policymakers really need right now. This got me thinking: if you all could ask for one dataset or insight that’s not available yet, what would it be?

New from me: this podcast episode from @alexschafran.bsky.social’s podcast Housing After Dark. This conversation is a repeat of the panel for practitioners we held at @spur-urbanist.bsky.social San Francisco earlier this year, alongside Egon Terplan. open.spotify.com/episode/1gY0...

Last month, we organized a Grand Parisian Night on the joint futures of the Parisian city center and its suburbs. The roundtable included Lamia El Aaraje, Deputy mayor of Paris, as well as architecture historians, designers, and artists. Video recording: www.gsd.harvard.edu/event/la-nui...

New paper on rental deserts, segregation and zoning, with Whitney Airgood-Obrycki + Sophia Wedeen: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... We weave together: 1️⃣ a new "rental deserts" framework, 2️⃣ a new measure of segregation, and 3️⃣ a new approach to national zoning surveys @uaanews.bsky.social