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Jean-Paul Volle, professor emeritus at the Faculty of Arts (urban geographer).

Jean-Paul Volle is a geography professor who taught at Paul-Valéry-Montpellier University. He specialized in the geography of Languedoc and urban geography under the guidance ofRaymond DugrandandRobert Ferras. He is one of the pillars of urban geography at Paul-Valéry University, along with Raymond Dugrand, Robert Ferras, and his colleagues Bernard Vielzeuf and Michel Vigouroux. He collaborated withthe GIP Reclusin Montpellier.

Jean-Paul Volle is a member of theMontpellier Agglomération executive committee. He holds several positions: member of the commission responsible for the plan to preserve and enhance Montpellier's protected area. He is also a member of the Urban Planning Conciliation Commission (DREAL), a member of the Economic and Social Council of Languedoc-Roussillon's Economic Situation Section, and a member of the Youth Commission of the Languedoc-Roussillon Regional Council.

He was elected a member ofthe Montpellier Academy of Sciences and Lettersin 2017.

Works:

• 99 responses on...the city (with Robert Ferras), CRDP, Montpellier, 1995.
• Sustainable land use planning, urban form economics: proceedings of the seminars held from November 20, 1998, to April 2, 1999, Montpellier, edited by Jean-Paul Volle. Éditions de l’Espérou, published in 1999.
• Montpellier Méditerranée, with Robert Ferras, 228 pages, Economica, published in 2002.
• Nîmes, le choc de la modernité (Nîmes, the shock of modernity), preface by Jean-Paul Volle, Éditions l’Harmattan, 2002.
• Montpellier, the invented city, Éditions Parenthèses, June 2010.