EUC research examines urban processes and planning in Canada and diverse contexts around the world. There is a particular focus on critical urban theory, the experiences of marginalized communities, the role of activism in shaping urban life, and health and disease in urban settings.
Specific projects examine health and well-being in urban environments, labor markets and labour organizing, the lives of immigrant communities and diasporas, marginalization along axes of class, sexuality, race, gender and ability; urban politics; education; urban infrastructure and housing; and decolonial thought and practice in urban contexts.
Representative faculty members: Ali, Bain, Basu, Flicker, Foster, Gebresselassie, Gilbert, Haritaworn, Hovorka, Keil, Kelly, Kipfer, Kusno, Lehrer, Mensah, Peake, Preston, Sotomayor, Taylor, Tufts, Wood
Projects
Researcher Spotlights
Ahmed Abu Shaban
Professor Ahmed Abu Shaban, visiting Associate Professor and Dean from Al-Azhar University in Gaza, focuses his research on food systems, climate resilience, and market development, particularly in communities affected by conflict.
Alison L Bain
Professor Alison Bain is a feminist urban social geographer who studies contemporary urban and suburban culture, examining the complex relationships of cultural workers and LGBTQ2S populations to cities and suburbs in Canada and Germany.
Professor Emeritus Glen Norcliffe has many research focuses, including the adaptive technologies that aid the mobility of persons with disabilities.
Romeo Joe L. Quintero
PhD Candidate Romeo Joe L. Quintero's research focuses on how oppressive structures are reproduced in resettlement sites, and in turn, reinscribed in the everyday lives of internally displaced persons in Zamboanga City.
Dr. Evelyn Amponsah is a CITY/EUC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Climate and Equity Lab, exploring what climate resilience looks like for people whose housing already places them at risk.
Colin's Environmental and Urban Change Undergraduate Research Award project evaluated "Theatre Making Impact," a peer education participatory action research project that engages youth on topics relating to sexual and mental health.
