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May 2020 - Towards a “smart spatialization” for the economic regeneration of Wallonia?
A team of researchers from ECOGEO and Lepur have prepared a new issue of the CRISP “Courrier hebdomadaire”. Its title is: The economic redeployment of Wallonia in the face of the diversity of its territories -
December 2019 – Two Ph.D. presentations
Two Ph.D thesis were presented at the end of this year! In November, Jean-Pierre Messina has presented his dissertation on the urban expansion of Kinshasa. This Ph.D defence was held in front of a Congolese audience at the University of Kinshasa. In November, it was the turn of Perrine Dethier to present her Ph.D dissertation developed thanks to the Simcity-valuecap JPI Urban Europe project. -
August 2018 - Exhibition at Brussels' Centre for Fine Arts (BOZAR)
Jean-Marie Halleux's PhD dissertation is exposed with other scientific works on outskirts developments in the context of the exhibition "Horizontal Metropolis: a radical project" presented this summer at the Brussels' Centre for Fine Arts (BOZAR). -
December 2017 - Ph.D. presentation
Christophe Breuer has presented his Ph.D. research on the 19th of December. Christophe’s research was about the spatiality of governance in European urban regions. The dissertation is available on ORBI
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ECOGEO unit is attached to the Department of Geography (Faculty of Sciences) of the University of Liege. It is dedicated to the research and teaching in economic geography, a long-established domain in the ULiege.Our research group focuses on the location of economic activities, land and real estate markets, the economics of urban forms and the relationships between spatial planning and the economy.
ECOGEO is integrated in LEPUR, the Research Centre on Territorial, Urban and Rural Sciences, which brings together research units and researchers specializing in the field of territorial and urban development at the University of Liege.
ECOGEO has also strong links with SEGEFA (Service de Géographie Économique Fondamentale et Appliquée), LEMA (Local Environment Management and Analysis), LAPLEC (Laboratory for the Analysis of Places, Landscapes and European Countrysides), LMG (Laboratoire de Méthodologie de la Géographie) and the research unit SPHERES.
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