Dr. Constance Carr
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Faculty or Centre | Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences | ||||
Department | Department of Geography and Spatial Planning | ||||
Postal Address |
Université du Luxembourg Maison des Sciences Humaines 11, Porte des Sciences L-4366 Esch-sur-Alzette |
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Campus Office | MSH, E02 15-010 | ||||
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Telephone | (+352) 46 66 44 5511 | ||||
Dr., Senior Researcher
- Since 2020, Invited Faculty at the Paris Institute of Political Studies
- Since 2019, Visiting Scholar, CITY Institute, York University, Toronto
- Since 2018, Principal Investigator, Digital Urbanism and the Challenge of Urban Governance (DIG_URBGOV)
- 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 Interests
As an urban geographer, my primary interest is understanding how (sub)urban spaces produced, socially constructed, governed, contested, sustained, and how they change. Much of my post-doctoral work has focussed on urban sustainable development practices, focussing on such issues as: digital urban development led by large digital corporations; planning contradictions in urban regions under growth pressure; emerging suburban or post-suburban spaces and the respective dilemmas therein; governance structures in small states; dilemmas in infrastructure provision (housing vs transport); and the degree to which urban sustainability endorses social exclusion.
Currently, I am immersed into two projects that address contemporary urban problems underpinned by post-political, market-led development, and the condition that cities are increasingly corporatized. First, is a qualitative investigation of digital cities and urban governance. There is a minefield of lessons to be learned from current ‘digital turn’ in geography concerning emerging political 'economies of scope', imperatives of prediction and extraction, and new modes of social stratifications and accumulation. The second project addresses the problem of housing. Options for accommodation outside private ownership models are fewer and far between, while commuter distances are increasing for certain less-advantaged cohorts. Setting this problem in the context of current conceptual urban studies scholarship, this project aims to shed light on the urban worlds of housing that could exist beyond the rather narrow imperative of market solutions.
Current musings on these issues can be read at Urbanization Unbound (https://urbanunbound.blogspot.com).
Research Stays
Canada, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Editorial Functions
- Editorial Board Member, Palgrave Book Series on Environmental Sustainability
- Guest Edited for Local Environment
- Guest Edited for Planning Theory & Practice, Interface
- Co-editor of Urbanization Unbound (urbanunbound.blogspot.com)
- Co-editor isdrs.org/topic-6b-urban-and-rural-development/
- Chapter Editor, Berlin, The Contested Metropolis (2004)
Publications in
- Urban Planning
- Journal of Transport Geography
- Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space
- Regional Studies
- Raumforschung und Raumordnung
- disP – The Planning Review
- Raumplanung
- International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
- Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies
- Journal of Economic and Social Geography
- Thirdspace: A Journal of Feminist Theory and Culture
Memberships
- International Network of Urban Research and Action (INURA)
- Smart City Cluster, CITY Institute, York University
- Invited Guest of the H2020 Energy-SHIFTS Transport and Mobility Working Group
- American Association of Geographers (AAG)
- Spaces & Flows Research Network
- Regional Studies Association (RSA)
- International Geographical Union / Urban Commission
- International Sustainable Development Research Society Conference (ISDRS), Cities and Communities Group
Referee
- Nature, Scientific Reports
- Nature, Springer Manuals
- Association of American Geographers (AAG), COVID-19 Rapid Response
- International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
- Urban Studies
- Local Environment
- Interface: Journal for and about Social Movements
- European Planning Studies
- Journal of Economic and Social Geography Journal of Economic and Social Geography
- Palgrave and MacMillan Publishing
- Israeli Science Foundation
- Environment Development and Sustainability
- International Sustainable Development Research Society Conference
- European Science Foundation College of Expert Reviewers
- IGU Urban commission
- Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space
- Regions and Cohesions
Courses 2019-2020
- Paris Institute of Political Studies: Introduction to Urban Studies
- DGEO: Integrated Spatial Planning and Case Studies; Master Planning & Urban Governance; Master Thesis Workshop; Formation Continue en Aménagement du Territoire;
Post-Graduate Supervision
- Annick Leick, doctoral thesis, (2016) “„Kleines Land, Große Projekte. Diskurse, Praktiken und soziale Welten im Entscheidungs- und Planungsprozess der Großvorhaben Belval und Kirchberg in Luxemburg,” University of Luxembourg
- Jan Tobias-Doerr, master thesis, (2014) “From Agenda21 to sustainable subpolitics,” University of Luxembourg
Invited Talks
- Centre International de Recherche dur l’Environnement et le Développement (CIRED)
- University of Freiburg
- University of Greenland
- International conference on urban and extraurban studies: ‘Space and Flows’
- DGK
- AK Stadtzukünfte
- RSA Research Network on Ecological Regional Development
- OTB Research Institute for Housing, Urban and Mobility Studies
- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich
- Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology
- BIVEC-GIBET Transport Research Days
Media
- International: BBC Radio World Service; BBC Capital; Al Jazeera, Inside Story; SRF 10vor10; Dagens Nyheter; TomScottGo; NRC Handelsblad; Gazet van Antwepen; The Conversation, UK
- Luxembourg: Forum – für Politik, Gesellschaft und Kultur; Tageblatt; Luxemburger Wort; Radio 100,7; Le Quotidien; RTL
Key projects
- Digital Urbanism and the Challenge of Urban Governance (DIG_URBGOV)
- Governance for sustainable spatial development – a comparative study of Luxembourg and Switzerland, 2013-2015 (SUSTAIN_GOV)
- Sustainable Spatial Development, 2010-2013 (SUSTAINLUX)
Further Current Activities
- Lead organizer of the 30th Annual Conference of the INURA, (inuraluxembourg.blogspot.com)
- Co-organizer with Hesse, Schulz, Becker of DGEO and the German Academy for Spatial Research and Planning’s (Akademie für Raumforschung und Landesplanung, ARL) Summer School, “Smart Cities and Beyond
Languages
- English (1st language)
- German (Oberstufe)
- French (B1.2)
- Luxembourgish (B2)
Blog
urbanunbound.blogspot.com
Twitter
@urban_unbound
Last updated on: Monday, 29 June 2020
- Currently, Invited Faculty at the Paris Institute of Political Studies
- 2019-present: Visiting Scholar, CITY Institute, York University, Toronto
- 2015-present: Senior researcher, University of Luxembourg, Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning
- 2014 Visiting Researcher (Prof. C. Schmid) ETH Department of Architecture, Zurich
- 2010-2013: post-doctoral researcher, SUSTAINLUX, University of Luxembourg, Geography and Spatial Planning Research Centre. Funded by the Fonds National de la Recherche, CORE
- 2010: Doctor of Sociology, Department of Urban and Regional Sociology, Humboldt University, Berlin
- 2009-2010: New Metropolitan Mainstream (Ruhr Area), Common Project of INURA
- 2009: Scientific Assistant to Dr. Marit Rosol of Department of Human Geography, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main
- 2003: EureX Fellowship to the European Seminar on Urban Transformation, Poverty, Spatial Segregation and Social Exclusion. UrbEUROPE.
- 1999: Master of Environmental Studies, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto
- 1997-1998: Graduate Assistant to Professors David Bell and Roger Keil, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto.
- 1997-1997: Graduate Assistant to Professors Gene Desfor and Roger Keil, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto.
Last updated on: 29 Jun 2020

Scientific Periodicals – Complete Issue

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in Local Environment (2014), 19(6), 567-571
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in Environment and Planning A (2022)

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in Planning Theory and Practice (2022)

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in Urban Planning (2020), 5(1), 69-83

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in Journal of Transport Geography (2020), 83

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in Raumforschung und Raumordnung (2018), 76(2), 109-122

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in Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space (2018)

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in Regional Studies (2016), 50(6), 944-955

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in Raumplanung (2015), 182

in European Planning Studies (2014), 22(9), 1824-1840

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in Planung Neu Denken (2014)

in Topia : Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies (2005), 13(Spring), 153-160
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in Regions Magazine (2013), 289(1), 27-28
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in Aguiar, Luis; Senese, Donna; French, Diana (Eds.) The Elgar Companion to Valleys: Social, Economic and Cultural Perspectives (in press)

in Brinkmann, R. (Ed.) . In: Brinkmann R. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Sustainability (2021)

in Krueger, Rob; Freytag, Tim; Mössner, Samuel (Eds.) Adventures in Sustainable Urbanism (2019)

in Brinkmann, Robert; Garren, Sandra J. (Eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Sustainability: Case Studies and Practical Solutions (2018)

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in Porter, L.; Shaw, K. (Eds.) Whose Urban Renaissance? An international comparison of urban regeneration policies (2009)

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in Paloscia, R. (Ed.) The Contested Metropolis: Six Cities at the Beginning of the 21st Century (2003)

in Paloscia, R. (Ed.) The Contested Metropolis: Six Cities at the Beginning of the 21st Century (2003)

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in Paloscia, R. (Ed.) The Contested Metropolis: Six Cities at the Beginning of the 21st Century (2003)
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in Witlox, Frank (Ed.) Moving Towards More Sustainable Mobility and Transport through Smart Systems - Proceedings of the BIVEC-GIBET Transport Research Days 2019 (2019)

in de Melo, JJ; Disterheft, A; Caeiro, S; Santos, RF; Ramos, TB (Eds.) Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Sustainable Development Research Society Conference: Rethinking Sustainability Models and Practices (2016)

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in Hesse, Markus; Caruso, Geoffrey; Gerber, Philippe; Viti, Francesco (Eds.) Proceedings of the BIVEC-GIBET Transport Research Days 2013 (2013, May)
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Book Reviews

in disP : The Planning Review (2019)

in Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie = Journal of Economic & Social Geography (2013), 104(1), 120-122

in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (2011), 35(1), 217-218

in Thirdspace: a Journal of Feminist Theory & Culture (2010), 9(2), 254
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