
Brian Rosa
I am an urban geographer and photographer living in Barcelona, Spain, where I am a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Department of Humanities, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Before relocating to Barcelona, I was Assistant Professor of Urban Studies (Queens College) and Geography (The Graduate Center) at the City University of New York. I was also affiliated with the Queens College MFA in Social Practice program and was founder and co-Director of the College’s City Lab. From 2013 to 2014, I was Lecturer in Urban and Community Studies at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.
I hold a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Manchester, a MRP in City and Regional Planning from Cornell University, and a BA in Sociology from Clark University.
My academic work focuses on the transformation of deindustrializing urban districts and landscapes of urban infrastructure, political debates about urban heritage and preservation, gentrification, visual methods, and the spatial and cultural politics of urban transformation in Britain, the United States, and Spain.
I am co-editor, with Christoph Lindner, of Deconstructing the High Line (Rutgers UP 2017), and have published my work in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes in English and Spanish.
My current research in Barcelona explores the conservation of smokestacks as monuments-typically, demolishing remaining industrial buildings and structures and leaving them in landscaped plazas- and seeks to understand how and why this urban design strategy has been replicated since the 1980s. Then, through a participatory methodology involving a photography exhibition at the History Museum of Barcelona, I am investigating what people who live, work, and visit working-class, former industrial districts in the city understand these monuments to symbolize, and to understand attitudes about the city's relation with its industrial heritage and history of urban redevelopment since the transition to democracy and its policy-led deindustrialization.
Documentos
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- The smokestack in the plaza: Industrial monumentalization and gentrification in Barcelona UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- Speaker Brian Rosa (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) |
- translation_fallback: 11:00 AM - translation_fallback: 11:20 AM | 20 minutos Translation_fallback: part of: Is industrial heritage an agent of gentrification II?
- Though Barcelona has become a center for cultural tourism since the 1992 Olympic Games, the city has historically had an economy and identity shape...
- Paper
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- Opening ceremony
- translation_fallback: Signup required UQAM, Cœur des sciences - Agora Hydro-Québec
- translation_fallback: 5:00 PM - translation_fallback: 7:00 PM | 2 translation_fallback: hours
- Join the conference organisers and TICCIH board members for a welcome cocktail and some festive words of introduction, in the former forge of th...
- Cocktail
- The best defence is a strong offence. When civic society is the best advocate for the protection of industrial heritage. A case study in Barcelona UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- Speaker Èlia Casals Alsina (Universitat de Lleida [University of Lleida]. Fac.: Geography and Sociology. Research program: Territory, heritage and culture) |
- translation_fallback: 11:30 AM - translation_fallback: 11:50 AM | 20 minutos Translation_fallback: part of: Planning Instruments for Industrial Heritage Reuse and Regeneration through Citizen Engagement I
- Many cities with a highly industrial past in Europe, the US and, more recently, the Global South have developed regeneration programs to overcom...
- Paper
- Lunch
- translation_fallback: 12:30 PM - translation_fallback: 1:30 PM | 1 translation_fallback: hour
- Repas
- Photography and Industrial Heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570
- translation_fallback: 3:30 PM - translation_fallback: 5:00 PM | 1 translation_fallback: hour 30 minutos
- Industrial heritage and photography have a close relationship. Photography is a source for industrial archaeology. It sheds light on the links b...
- Regular session
- Public lecture: Industrial heritage as agent of gentrification?
- translation_fallback: Available translation_fallback: Sold out translation_fallback: Ticket sales have finished translation_fallback: Ticket sales haven't started yet translation_fallback: You've purchased a ticket UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- translation_fallback: 5:30 PM - translation_fallback: 7:00 PM | 1 translation_fallback: hour 30 minutos
- Efforts to preserve industrial heritage occurs in a socio-economic and political context. But what is being pres...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
Translation_fallback: miércoles 31 agosto, 2022
- Industrial Landscape: a resilient palimpsest of memory - The case of Lordelo do Ouro Woollen Mill, Porto, Portugal (1805-2020) UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570
- Speaker Mário Bruno Pastor (APPI / TICCIH - UCP - CITAR - FCT) |
- translation_fallback: 11:00 AM - translation_fallback: 11:20 AM | 20 minutos Translation_fallback: part of: Industrial landscape: a resilient palimpsest of memory II
- In this work we discuss the concept of industrial landscape and its geographical and heritage implications. We understand this concept is open and ...
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- Rome Reloaded. Or Industrial Heritage Meets the Arts UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1580
- Speaker Anne Scheinhardt (Deutsches Architekturmuseum (German Architecture Museum)) |
- translation_fallback: 1:30 PM - translation_fallback: 1:50 PM | 20 minutos Translation_fallback: part of: Critical inquiry, arts-based methodologies and participatory approaches for sustainable heritage futures of post-industrial contexts I
- Rome Reloaded. Or Industrial Heritage Meets the ArtsSince the end of the Industrial Age, the treatm...
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- Photography as a tool for industrial heritage research, acknowledge, and social engagement: The case study of Anina (Romania) UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1420
- Speaker Oana Cristina Tiganea (Politecnico di Milano) |
- translation_fallback: 2:00 PM - translation_fallback: 2:20 PM | 20 minutos Translation_fallback: part of: Identity, society, and industrial heritage preservation in Central and Eastern Europe III
- In the last 10 – 15 years, a variety of bottom-up initiatives have emerged in Romania as a result of civic action, focusing on the safeguarding and...
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- Ruin and revival: Pittsburgh's city staircases as artifacts of alternative urban histories and contemporary narratives UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570
- Speaker Elena Clarke |
- translation_fallback: 2:00 PM - translation_fallback: 2:30 PM | 30 minutos Translation_fallback: part of: Industrial landscape: a resilient palimpsest of memory III
- Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, USA) has over 800 public staircases that began to appear on its hillsides at the peak of the region’s industrial developm...
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- Public lecture: Fear, loss and the potential for progressive nostalgia: challenging right-wing populism
- translation_fallback: Available translation_fallback: Sold out translation_fallback: Ticket sales have finished translation_fallback: Ticket sales haven't started yet translation_fallback: You've purchased a ticket UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- translation_fallback: 5:30 PM - translation_fallback: 7:00 PM | 1 translation_fallback: hour 30 minutos
- In this lecture, I would like to talk about deindustrialised communities, heritage and memory in the context of right-w...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
Translation_fallback: jueves 1 septiembre, 2022
- Early bird tour. Lachine Canal: A walk through history and commemoration or The Lachine Canal: now and then
- translation_fallback: Signup required UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- translation_fallback: 7:00 AM - translation_fallback: 8:30 AM | 1 translation_fallback: hour 30 minutos
- From its construction to its restoration, immerse yourself in the now and then of this key Canadian industrial heritage site. A country’s
- Tour
- Is industrial heritage an agent of gentrification I? UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- translation_fallback: 9:00 AM - translation_fallback: 10:30 AM | 1 translation_fallback: hour 30 minutos
- The proposed session will examine the unfolding relationship between industrial heritage and those left behind in adjoining deindustrialized wor...
- Regular session
- All the Pink Houses: pastel gentrification and international pastiche UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- Speaker Elizabeth Carnegie (Northumbria University) | Presenter Derek Bryce (University of Strathclyde) |
- translation_fallback: 9:00 AM - translation_fallback: 9:20 AM | 20 minutos Translation_fallback: part of: Is industrial heritage an agent of gentrification I?
- This paper critically assesses the phenomenon of rejuvenated post-industrial and urban spaces through the theoretical lenses of gentrification and ...
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- Abandoned industrial buildings as alternative places of creation: Montreal's underground art galleries - The case of 4000 Saint-Patrick UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1580
- Participant Myriam Joannette (Chaire de recherche du Canada en patirmoine urbain) |
- translation_fallback: 11:00 AM - translation_fallback: 11:20 AM | 20 minutos Translation_fallback: part of: Critical inquiry, arts-based methodologies and participatory approaches for sustainable heritage futures of post-industrial contexts III
- Urban exploration, urbex, consists of the unauthorized and non-profit visit of abandoned places (hospitals, churches, warehouses, industrial bui...
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- Perception of the potential of industrial culture UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1580
- Speaker Karsten Feucht (www.industriekultur.berlin) |
- translation_fallback: 11:30 AM - translation_fallback: 11:50 AM | 20 minutos Translation_fallback: part of: Critical inquiry, arts-based methodologies and participatory approaches for sustainable heritage futures of post-industrial contexts III
- All over the world, committed monument conservationists point out cultural heritage sites endangered by...
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- The creative city despite the Creative City. Key factors for sustainable arts-led regeneration programs UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- Speaker Èlia Casals Alsina (Universitat de Lleida [University of Lleida]. Fac.: Geography and Sociology. Research program: Territory, heritage and culture) |
- translation_fallback: 12:00 PM - translation_fallback: 12:20 PM | 20 minutos Translation_fallback: part of: Is industrial heritage an agent of gentrification II?
- The concept ‘arts-led regeneration’ is nowadays one of the trendiest slogans for the transformation of contemporary cities. Despite this fact, i...
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- Public lecture: Trajectories of deindustrialization and the memoryscapes of industrial pasts – Towards global perspectives
- translation_fallback: Available translation_fallback: Sold out translation_fallback: Ticket sales have finished translation_fallback: Ticket sales haven't started yet translation_fallback: You've purchased a ticket UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- translation_fallback: 1:30 PM - translation_fallback: 3:00 PM | 1 translation_fallback: hour 30 minutos
- This lecture will argue that the landscapes of industrial heritage that can be found in different parts of the world ar...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
Translation_fallback: viernes 2 septiembre, 2022
- Public lecture: Heritage from the outside in: Cultural practice in an already changed climate
- translation_fallback: Available translation_fallback: Sold out translation_fallback: Ticket sales have finished translation_fallback: Ticket sales haven't started yet translation_fallback: You've purchased a ticket UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- translation_fallback: 3:30 PM - translation_fallback: 5:00 PM | 1 translation_fallback: hour 30 minutos
- In the refusal of people in communities abandoned by industrial capital to abandon their own places, we can read an implicit critique of the mob...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
- Closing dinner
- translation_fallback: Available translation_fallback: Sold out translation_fallback: Ticket sales have finished translation_fallback: Ticket sales haven't started yet translation_fallback: You've purchased a ticket Usine C - Hall
- translation_fallback: 6:30 PM - translation_fallback: 9:30 PM | 3 translation_fallback: hours
- Come and share the good times of the congress and celebrate your scientific and professional discoveries in a former fruit jam factory, Usine C,...
- Repas