Alain Medam

A Franco-Tunisian sociologist and writer (1936–2021) born in Tunis, Alain Médam was a research director at the CNRS and taught for many years at the Université du Québec à Montréal. A specialist in urban sociology, he devoted a singular body of work to great cities — New York, Montreal, Naples, Jerusalem, Marseille. His books include New York Terminal (Galilée, 1977), La Conscience de la ville (The Consciousness of the City; Anthropos, 1977), Villes pour un sociologue (Cities for a Sociologist; L'Harmattan, 1998) and Montréal interdite (Forbidden Montreal; Liber, 2004).