Jacques Lévy

Jacques Lévy
Born	(1952-10-14)14 October 1952
Known for	urbanity World-society cartographic turn epistemology of social sciences
Scientific career
Fields	Geography, social theory, political geography, cartography

Jacques Lévy is a professor of geography and urbanism at the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He is the director of Chôros Laboratory and of the Doctoral Program in Architecture and Science of the City. He is the cofounder of the scientific journal Espacestemps.net. He published in French, along with Michel Lussault, the dictionary of geography and space of societies, Dictionnaire de la géographie et de l’espace des sociétés.

Research areas

Jacques Lévy’s work concerns the spatial dimension of societies, with a focus on political spaces. He developed a new approach on geography in his most comprehensive book L’espace légitime in which he analyzes the geographic dimension of the political function. His researches on the legitimate scale of politics include works on the city, France, Europe and the World. The notion of urbanity is also central in his work. He also supports the relevance of using non verbal languages as scientific means for researchers, especially cartography and cinema. He is the director of a scientific film named Urbanity/ies.

Bibliography

Books

• 1992 : Le Monde : espaces et systèmes, Marie-Françoise Durand, Jacques Lévy and Denis Retaillé, Dalloz, ISBN 978-2724606331.
• 1994 : L'Espace légitime, Jacques Lévy, Presses de Sciences Po, ISBN 978-2724606447.
• 1997 : Europe, une géographie : la fabrique d'un continent, Jacques Lévy, Hachette Supérieur (2nd edition, 2011), ISBN 978-2011461469.
• 1999 : Le Tournant géographique, Jacques Lévy, Belin, ISBN 978-2701124674.
• 2007 : Milton Santos, philosophe du mondial, citoyen du local, Jacques Lévy, Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, ISBN 978-2880747091.
• 2013 : Réinventer la France : Trente cartes pour une nouvelle géographie, Jacques Lévy, fayard, ISBN 978-2213671970.

Edited books

• 1991 : Géographies du politique, Jacques Lévy (Editor), Presses de Science Po, ISBN 978-2-7246-0595-2.
• 2000 : Logiques de l'espace, esprit des lieux,Jacques Lévy and Michel Lussault (Editors), Belin, ISBN 978-2-7011-2840-5.
• 2001 : From Geopolitics to Global Politics, Jacques Lévy (Editor), Routledge Studies in Geopolitics, ISBN 978-0714651071.
• 2003 : Dictionnaire de la géographie et de l'espace des sociétés, Jacques Lévy and Michel Lussault (Editors), Belin (2nd edition, 2013), ISBN 978-2701163956.
• 2004 : Les Sens du mouvement, Jacques Lévy, Sylvain Allemand and François Ascher (Editors), Belin, ISBN 2-7011-4066-8.
• 2008 : L'invention du monde. Une géographie de la mondialisation, Jacques Lévy (Editor), Presses de Sciences Po, ISBN 978-2-7246-1041-3.

Movies

• 2013 : "Urbanité/s", Jacques Lévy (Direction), Chôros (Production), Thomas Bataille and Jacques Lévy (Images), Olivier Zuchuat (Montage).

External links

• Biography on the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne's website
• Espacestemps.net
• The movie Urbanity/ies on Vimeo