Pedro Manuel Serrano Gomes

2024-2025

Lucienne Domergue

Ecole supérieure des professions immobilières

Reinventing Cities in Madrid: the life and death of a Parisian model for municipal land allocation?

Biography

Pedro Manuel Serrano Gomes has recently been appointed Assistant Professor in Urban Planning at the Ecole des Ingénieurs de la Ville de Paris and at the Lab’URBA research unit. His main research interests are public space, urban co-production and convivial urbanism. He mostly works with qualitative research methods and with analytical frameworks in Sociology and Geography. His work has been published in journals such as Espaces et sociétés, European Urban and Regional Studies, Progress in Planning and Urban Geography.

He holds a PhD in Urbanism from the Université Paris-Est (2017). His initial training is in Geography and Planning (NOVA Lisboa, 2007) and in Social Sciences and Architecture (Universidade de Lisboa, 2011). He has previously held teaching and research positions at the Universidade de Aveiro, the Ecole d’urbanisme de Paris, UMR LAVUE and the Ecole supérieure des professions immobilières.

He is very proud to be part of Danse en Seine, an amateur dance company based in Paris.

Research project 

Reinventing Cities (RC) is a planning and design competition organized by the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group. Cities put up sites for sale (or long-term lease) so that low carbon real estate projects can come to fruition. Project teams include, at least, designers, environmental consultancies and developer-investors. Madrid participated during Ahora Madrid's term at the helm of the City.

This residency is part of a research collective investigating local uses of RC and its effectiveness, determined by political and urban contexts and the structure of the real estate field. He will investigate the reasons that led the municipality to adopt RC as a tool for its urban regeneration policy and the responses it garnered from other public and private actors. The calls apparent ineffectiveness (abandoned projects, long implementation times) may hide indirect impacts that  RC and Ahora Madrid’s action may have had in professional practices in real estate and urban planning.

Selected publications

2024 [2022], with Antoine Fleury. “Public space and the metropolis. The changing governance of public spaces around the Grand Paris Express’s new metro stations”, Urban Geography, 45 (1), pp. 93-113.

2023, with Hélène Dang Vu. “Les appels à projets urbains innovants en temps réel : des groupements entre recompositions et décompositions”, 12.

2022. “L’espace public des urbanistes : de l’action à l’analyse”, in Antoine Fleury and France Guérin-Pace (eds.), Les espaces publics urbains : penser, enquêter, fabriquer, Tours, Presses Universitaires François Rabelais, pp. 63-72.

2022 [2021], with Yoann Pérès. “Introducing Real Estate led smart urbanism: an account from Greater Paris”, Progress in Planning, 162.

2020 [2019]. “The birth of public space privatization: how entrepreneurialism, convivial urbanism and stakeholder interactions made the Martim Moniz square, in Lisbon, ‘privatization-ready’”, European Urban and Regional Studies, 27 (1), pp. 86-100.