Urban Renewal: A Field in the Making for Applied Social Sciences?

Abstract

Professional socio-anthropology can be applied to private but also to public sector, for example in the context of the evaluation of public policies. In this article, we will focus on urban renewal projects, which have been particularly invested by sociologists and anthropologists over the past twenty years. We will explore the demand for urban sociology through the emergence of the notion of "usage expertise". Indeed, it is particularly in this field that the skills of urban socio-anthropology come into play