Constance Carr

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Dr., Scientific Collaborator

Research interests and activities

sustainable cities, social spatial planning practices, the intersection of housing and transport, contested spaces, social theory, alternative geographies, transnationalism and borders, philosophy of space

Curriculum Vitae

• Since April 2010: Collaborateur Scientifique, Universite du Luxembourg
• Ph.D. 2010, Institute of Social Sciences, Stadt- und Regional Soziologie, Humboldt Universität, Berlin
• M.E.S. 1999, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto

Research projects

• 2010-2013 SUSTAINLUX, University of Luxembourg, IPSE, Geography and Spatial Planning Research Centre
• 2009-2010 New Metropolitan Mainstream (Ruhr Area). Common Project of INURA
• 2009 Metropol – voll krass! Exhibition of INURA-Ruhr and Heinrich Böll NRW.
• 2009 “The Role of Community in Urban Governance." Department of Human Geography, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main
• 2009 "Social Spatial Borders Delimiting Difference in Berlin" Doctoral Studies

Recent papers

• Carr, C., Hesse, M., and Schulz, C. "Sustainable Spatial Development in Luxembourg (SUSTAINLUX)" Funded by FNR (CO9/SR/01), Working Paper 1, Laboratoire de Géographie et Aménagement du Territoire
• Carr, C. 2010. "Gender, Race, and National Identity: Lasting Categories of an Urbanized Planet"  Thirdspace: A journal of feminist theory & culture
• Carr, C. “Density” in Robbins, P., Cohen, N., and J.G. Golson (eds.) (2010). “Green Cities: An A-to-Z Guide.” Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
• Carr, C. (2010) “Social Spatial Difference Delimiting Borders in Berlin” Berlin: Humboldt University Press.
• Carr, C. “Multicultural Cities” in Hutchinson, R. (ed.) (2009). “Encyclopedia of Urban Studies.” Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
• Carr, C. “Divided Cities” in Hutchinson, R. (ed.) (2009). “Encyclopedia of Urban Studies.” Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
• Müller, S. and Carr, C. (2009) “Symbolic Planning Politics in a Region of Ongoing Decline. The Restructuring Model of IBA Emscher Park (1989-1999).” In: Porter, L., and Shaw, H., “Whose Urban Renaissance? An international comparison of urban regeneration policies” Abingdon: Routledge.
• Carr, C. (2005) “Immigration, Rights and Culture: Three Approaches to the Urban,” Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 13:153-160..
• Carr, C. and Lehrer, U. A., “Berlin: from MetropoLUST to MetroLOST, ” In Paloscia, R., (2003) “Contested Metropolis” Birkhäuser Publishing Ltd.: Basel.
• Carr, C., “Berlin: Reunified but not in one Piece” In Paloscia, R., (2003) “Contested Metropolis” Birkhäuser Publishing Ltd.: Basel.
• Carr, C. and Allahwala, A., “Alternative Urban Publics: Between Repression and Emancipation” In Paloscia, R., (2003) “Contested Metropolis” Birkhäuser Publishing Ltd.: Basel.
• Eick, V., Interview with C. Carr (2003) „Bezahlbarer Wohnraum durch Genossenschaften“ (“Affordable Living Spaces with Housing Co-operatives”) MieterEcho, August 2003, Nr. 299.

Conference presentations

• upcoming, "Sustainable Spatial Development: Where are we now?" 
• Presentation, 2010,  "Sustainable Spatial Development: How do you research a discourse of power?" Collaborative Workshop with Bernd Klauer of the Leipzig Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung
• Colloquium Organizer, 2010,  "Knowledge Branding and Megaengineering Projects", at IPSE
• Presentation, 2010, "Sustainable Spatial Development in Luxembourg: Conflicting trajectories of Housing and Mobility" for the RSA Workshop at the OTB Research Institute for the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, Delft
• Presentation, 2010,  "Sustainable Spatial Development in Luxembourg" for the RSA Research Network, for the First Workshop on Ecological Regional Development at the Institute of Ecological and Regional Development, Dresden
• Workshop and presentation, 2010, "Reflections on Sustainable Spatial Development in Luxembourg" IPSE
• Excursion Interpreter, 2010, "Where are the Ghettos in Zürich?"  INURA Excursion, Zürich.
• Panel Moderator, 2010, "Urban Regeneration and the Limits of Democracy" INURA, Zürich 2010.
• Presentation, 2010, "New Metropolitan Mainstream: Ruhr Valley". International Network of Urban Research and Action, Zürich.
• "Lefebvre versus Poststructuralist Difference." at the conference, “Urban Research and Architecture: Beyond Henri Lefebvre,” ETH Zürich,.
• "Social Spatial Borders Delimiting Difference in Berlin" Urban and Regional Sociology, Institute for Social Sciences, Humboldt University, Berlin.
• “Transnational Pathways of Migrants in Detention in Germany: A Proposal for Post-Doctoral Research.” Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology. Bielefeld University.
• “Counter Publics: Fights towards just space inside a contested metropolis,” Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Urban and Regional Sociology, Humboldt University
• “Against a Hegemony of Denial” Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Urban and Regional Sociology, Humboldt University
• “Canadian Housing Co-operatives,” at “Gemeinschaftliche Wohnprojekte Architektonisch Anspruchsvoll””) Dortmund.
• Co-organizer, “Deregulation, Liberalization, and Privatisation of Public Infrastructure and Public Administration” of the International Network of Urban Research and Action (INURA-Rhine-Rhur) in Dortmund and Düsseldorf.
• Translator for Birgitte Karhoff of WohnBund-Beratung NRW, “Old working class settlement – New urban co-operative housing “Riwetho eG”
• Moderator, “Migration and Community Development in Germany and Britain,” the International Network of Urban Research and Action (INURA), Berlin -Trebnitz.
• Co-organizer “Flüchtlingspolitik in Deutschland und die Situation von Asylsuchenden in Soest.” Mikrofilm Kollektiv und Alt St. Thomä Kirche, Soest.
• “Fordism Alive at Sea: Crossing the Atlantic.” International Network of Urban Research and Action (INURA), Paris, 2002.
• “Central Canada and Toronto: Multiculturalism, Nature, City of Neighbourhoods” Volkshochschule Möhne-Lippe.
• “What is Contested Space” Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Urban and Regional Sociology, Humboldt University
• “Multiculturalism: Toronto vs. Berlin” Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Urban and Regional Sociology, Humboldt University
• "History of Lawrence Neighbourhood Development" for exchange students from the Hamburg-Harburg Technical University.
• "Co-operative Housing in Toronto" at The Factory Coach House, Toronto

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