Lucie K. Morisset
Elle, She
Chairholder of the Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage, Lucie K. Morisset is a professor in the Department of Urban and Tourism Studies at the School of Management Sciences, Université du Québec à Montréal.
An architectural historian and anthropologist by training, she is interested in the ideas and objects of urbanism, particularly in company towns and industrial wastelands. She researches the formation and meaning of the built landscape and the relationships between identity, culture and territories, among others as they manifest themselves through heritage practices and the production of heritage discourses. Her work includes theoretical explorations of heritage communities and the right to heritage, and action research initiatives on territorial and local development.
Lucie K. Morisset is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Sessions in which Lucie K. Morisset participates
domingo 28 agosto, 2022
Join the conference organisers and TICCIH board members for a welcome cocktail and some festive words of introduction, in the former forge of the École technique de Montréal, founded in 1909, now part of the Université du Québec à Montréal campus.
lunes 29 agosto, 2022
martes 30 agosto, 2022
This session focuses on company towns from the perspective of urban planning. “Company towns” are here defined as single-enterprise planned communities, usually centered around a single industry, where a company commissions an urban plan, builds housing for its workers, and sets up recreational, commercial, institutional or community facilities. While these are now endangered by a second wave of deindustrialization, we observe that, aside studies or monographs of individual towns that popu...
This session focuses on company towns from the perspective of urban planning. “Company towns” are here defined as single-enterprise planned communities, usually centered around a single industry, where a company commissions an urban plan, builds housing for its workers, and sets up recreational, commercial, institutional or community facilities. While these are now endangered by a second wave of deindustrialization, we observe that, aside studies or monographs of individual towns that popu...