Dr. Constance Carr
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| Faculty or Centre | Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences | ||||
| Department | Department of Geography and Spatial Planning | ||||
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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
Rescaling sustainability? Local opportunities and scalar contradictions;
in Local Environment (2014), 19(6), 567-571
Articles published in scientific periodicals
Four reasons why data centers matter, five implications of their social spatial distribution, one graphic to visualize them; ; ;
in Environment and Planning A (2022)
Technocratic urban development: Large digital corporations as power brokers of the digital age;
in Planning Theory and Practice (2022)
When Alphabet Inc. plans Toronto's waterfront: New post-political modes of urban governance;
in Urban Planning (2020), 5(1), 69-83
Mobility policy through the lens of policy mobility: The post-political case of introducing free transit in Luxembourg;
in Journal of Transport Geography (2020), 83
Integrative planning of post-suburban growth in the Glatt Valley (Switzerland);
in Raumforschung und Raumordnung (2018), 76(2), 109-122
Examining Regional Competitiveness and the Pressures of Rapid Growth: An interpretive institutionalist account of policy responses in three city regions; ;
in Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space (2018)
Blending Scales of Governance: Land Use Policies and Practices in the Small State of Luxembourg;
in Regional Studies (2016), 50(6), 944-955
Integration als konzeptioneller Baustein und Widerspruch der nachhaltigen Raumplanung; ;
in Raumplanung (2015), 182
Discourse Yes, Implementation Maybe: an Immobility and Paralysis of Sustainable Development Policyin European Planning Studies (2014), 22(9), 1824-1840
Immigration, Rights and Culture: Three Approaches to the Urbanin Topia : Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies (2005), 13(Spring), 153-160
Short communications published in scientific periodicals
“Report on the Third workshop of the RSAN ‘Ecological Regional Development’; ;
in Regions Magazine (2013), 289(1), 27-28
Contributions to collective works
Vertical (sub)urbanization in Zurich’s northeast: The Valley along the Glatt as both a metaphor and mediating structural element;
in Aguiar, Luis; Senese, Donna; French, Diana (Eds.) The Elgar Companion to Valleys: Social, Economic and Cultural Perspectives (in press)
Background on Urban and Regional Planningin Brinkmann, R. (Ed.) . In: Brinkmann R. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Sustainability (2021)
Introducing Luxembourg: Ephemeral Sustainabilitiesin Krueger, Rob; Freytag, Tim; Mössner, Samuel (Eds.) Adventures in Sustainable Urbanism (2019)
Sustainability in small states: Luxembourg as a post-suburban space under growth pressure in need of a cross-national sustainabilityin Brinkmann, Robert; Garren, Sandra J. (Eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Sustainability: Case Studies and Practical Solutions (2018)
Symbolic Planning Politics in a Region of Ongoing Decline. The Restructuring Model of IBA Emscher Park (1989-1999);
in Porter, L.; Shaw, K. (Eds.) Whose Urban Renaissance? An international comparison of urban regeneration policies (2009)
Alternative Urban Publics: Between Repression and Emancipation;
in Paloscia, R. (Ed.) The Contested Metropolis: Six Cities at the Beginning of the 21st Century (2003)
Berlin: Reunified but not in one Piecein Paloscia, R. (Ed.) The Contested Metropolis: Six Cities at the Beginning of the 21st Century (2003)
Berlin: from MetropoLUST to MetroLOST;
in Paloscia, R. (Ed.) The Contested Metropolis: Six Cities at the Beginning of the 21st Century (2003)
Scientific congresses, symposiums and conference proceedings – Papers published in a book
Free Transit in Luxembourg: A case of post-political urban governance through policy mobility;
in Witlox, Frank (Ed.) Moving Towards More Sustainable Mobility and Transport through Smart Systems - Proceedings of the BIVEC-GIBET Transport Research Days 2019 (2019)
Powerful sustainable development master - signifiers in urban planning discourses (abstract)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)
Integration vs. fragmentaion: spatial governance for land and mobility (extended abstract);
in Hesse, Markus; Caruso, Geoffrey; Gerber, Philippe; Viti, Francesco (Eds.) Proceedings of the BIVEC-GIBET Transport Research Days 2013 (2013, May)
E-Prints/Working papers – already available on another site
Book Reviews
Review "Inside Smart Cities – Place, Politics and Urban Innovation"in disP : The Planning Review (2019)
Review of “Knowledge Economy and the City by Ali Madanipour”in Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie = Journal of Economic & Social Geography (2013), 104(1), 120-122
Review “Nations of Flesh and Blood by Jackie Hogan”in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (2011), 35(1), 217-218
Gender, Race, and National Identity: Lasting Categories of an Urbanized Planetin Thirdspace: a Journal of Feminist Theory & Culture (2010), 9(2), 254
Contributions to encyclopaedias, dictionaries, …
Scientific congresses, symposiums and conference proceedings – Unpublished conferences
Quilting around the master-signifier of sustainable developmentScientific Conference (2015, October)
Whither sustainability? Governance and regional integration in the Glatt Valley;
Scientific Conference (2014, July 11)
Scientific congresses, symposiums and conference proceedings – Posters
Scientific presentations in Universities or research centres
Panel Discussion on Sustainable Neighbourhoods: A view on cooperative housing modelsPresentation (2014, December)
The space of flaws – on the contradictions of integrated planning in a fragmented environment;
Presentation (2013, November)
Sustainable Spatial Development in Agglomeration Luxembourg and in the Glatt ValleyPresentation (2013, October)
Agglomeration Luxembourg and Zurich North: A research exercise in relational urban comparisonPresentation (2013, June)
Integration vs. fragmentation: Spatial governance for land and mobility – the case of Luxembourg;
Presentation (2013, May)
Market Rulers: Interpretive institutionalism and market-based sustainability; ;
Presentation (2013, April)
Transforming Under Growth Pressure: Grassroots Sprawl or Top Down and Smart;
Presentation (2012, July)
Urban Development in Luxembourg: sustaining ambiguous fault lines of powerPresentation (2012, April)
Mobilizing Sustainability, Fixing Competitiveness: An examination of policy mobility Lux-embourg; ; ;
Presentation (2011, November)
Current Observations of Spatial Development and the Normative of SustainabilityPresentation (2011, June)
Sustainable Spatial Development in Luxembourg: Conflicting trajectories of Housing and Mobility;
Presentation (2010, September)
Poststructural Difference and Lefebvre’s Minimal Difference. Are they Categorically Exclusive?Presentation (2009, November)
Reports – Other
Doctoral Theses
Articles for the General Public
"Keine Schwarzseher" Forscher der Universität Luxemburg unterstützen Jugendliche von "Fridays for Future"; ; ; ; ;
Article for general public (2019)
Luxembourg’s free public transport sounds great, but it won’t help people get from A to B;
Article for general public (2019)
Smart Cities, ‚big politics‘ und die Privatisierung der urbanen Governance;
Article for general public (2019)
