The urban development of Montpellier from the 1980s onwards, a city in the making...

Jean-Paul Volle, Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Arts (geographer and urban planner).

Jean-Paul Volle holds an agrégation in geography and taught at the Université Paul-Valéry-Montpellier. He specialized in the geography of Languedoc and urban geography, under the guidance of Raymond Dugrand and Robert Ferras. He is one of the pillars of urban geography at the Université Paul-Valéry, along with Raymond Dugrand, Robert Ferras, and his colleagues Bernard Vielzeuf and Michel Vigouroux. He has collaborated with GIPReclus in Montpellier.

Jean-Paul Volle is a member of the board of Montpellier Agglomération. He is a member of the commission in charge of the Plan de la sauvegarde et de mise en valeur du secteur sauvegardé de Montpellier. Member of the Urban Planning Conciliation Commission (DREAL), member of the Conjoncture section of the Languedoc-Roussillon Economic and Social Council and member of the Youth Commission of the Languedoc-Roussillon Regional Council.

He was elected a member of theMontpellier Academy of Sciences and Letters in 2017.

Books :

• 99 réponses sur...la ville (with Robert Ferras), CRDP, Montpellier, 1995.
• La planification durable du territoire, économie de la forme urbaine: actes des séminaires du 20 novembre 1998 au 2 avril 1999, Montpellier, sous la direction de Jean-Paul Volle. Éditions de l'Espérou, published 1999.
• Montpellier Méditerranée , with Robert Ferras, 228 pages, Economica, published 2002.
• Nîmes, le choc de la modernité, preface by Jean-Paul Volle, Éditions l'Harmattan, 2002.
• Montpellier, la ville inventée, Éditions Parenthèses, June 2010.