Géraldine Pflieger is an urban planning researcher. She holds a Ph.D in urban planning from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris. She has held a research position with the Laboratory of Urban Sociology (Lasur) in the Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland. She is currently researching the relationship beetween the governance of urban services and territories from a socio-political perspective. Her current work concerns the links beetween network governance, territorial segregation and access to urban services, as well as new schemes of service governance and consumer involvement in the context of liberalization.