
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.
Documents
Sessions auxquelles Brian Rosa participe
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
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Brian Rosa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Conférencier.ère)
Sessions auxquelles Brian Rosa assiste
UQAM, Cœur des sciences - Agora Hydro-Québec
Cocktail
Patrick Dieudonné, Université de Bretagne occidentale, Institut de Géoarchitecture, France (Autre participant.e)
Lucie K. Morisset, Chaire de recherche du Canada en patrimoine urbain (Modérateur.rice)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
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Èlia Casals Alsina, Universitat de Lleida [University of Lleida]. Fac.: Geography and Sociology. Research program: Territory, heritage and culture (Conférencier.ère)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570
Regular session
Laurent Sauvage (Modérateur.rice)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
Steven High, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (Conférencier.ère)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570
Paper
Mário Bruno Pastor, APPI / TICCIH - UCP - CITAR - FCT (Conférencier.ère)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1580
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Anne Scheinhardt, Deutsches Architekturmuseum (German Architecture Museum) (Conférencier.ère)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1420
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Oana Cristina Tiganea, Politecnico di Milano (Conférencier.ère)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570
Paper
Elena Clarke (Conférencier.ère)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Conférencier.ère)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
Tour
Alain Gelly, Parks Canada (Présentateur.rice)
Matthieu Paradis, Agence Parcs Canada (Présentateur.rice)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
Regular session
Steven High, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (Modérateur.rice)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
Paper
Elizabeth Carnegie, Northumbria University (Conférencier.ère)
Derek Bryce, University of Strathclyde (Présentateur.rice)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1580
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Myriam Joannette, Chaire de recherche du Canada en patrimoine urbain (Participant.e)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1580
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Karsten Feucht, www.industriekultur.berlin (Conférencier.ère)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
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Èlia Casals Alsina, Universitat de Lleida [University of Lleida]. Fac.: Geography and Sociology. Research program: Territory, heritage and culture (Conférencier.ère)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
Stefan Berger (Conférencier.ère)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
Cathy Stanton, Tufts University (Conférencier.ère)
Usine C - Hall
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