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.
Mahtot Gebresselassie
Professor Mahtot Gebresselassie is an architect, urban planner, educator, and social-science researcher. Her research focuses on Uber and Lyft and transportation equity in relation to people with disabilities and poor households.
Luisa Sotomayor
Professor Luisa Sotomayor’s research focuses on the various dimensions of urban inequality and their connections to governance and planning practice.
Loren March
Dr. Loren March joined EUC as a postdoctoral fellow. Dr. March is a queer scholar, activist, and human whose work focuses broadly on queer urban ecologies and affect.
Sébastien Lambelet
Postdoctoral fellow Sébastien Lambelet’s research focuses on urban and metropolitan governance, policy studies, cross-border metropolitan areas, land-use planning and land policies.
Käthe Ploeger
Käthe Ploeger is an International Visiting Research Trainee at EUC who researches the urban garden as an assemblage in relation to environmental justice and food sovereignty.
