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Vincent Beal

Vincent Béal is a Lecturer in Sociology in the CNRS/University of Strasbourg Laboratory Societies, Actors and Governement in Europe (SAGE).

Vincent is a sociologist and a political scientist whose research is concerned with urban policies, state restructuring and governance. In the last years, Vincent has mainly contributed to the debate on urban shrinkage by developing comparative researches on France, the US and Germany. He has particularly focused on the transformation of urban policies and practices in context of extreme decline.