Defining and Experiencing Cities
Theme Lead: Dr Gillian Jein
This cities' research theme focuses on the urban experience. How different social, cultural, and ethnic groups understand, represent, and live in cities.
We draw on political, geographical, architectural, and environmental issues. And consider how territorial design and definition sit alongside the ‘softer’ spatialities of the urban lifeworld.
We explore this in the context of:
- belonging
- affect
- agency
- voice
- visibility
- memory
- mobility
This cities research aims to enhance the critical, agenda-setting role of such questions. So we can confront the everyday spatial injustices that endure in contemporary cities.
Dr Gillian Jein: "The 'defining and experiencing cities' strand of the Centre for Researching Cities coincides with my background in the urban humanities. I am fascinated by how the ways we imagine cities are tangled up in how we experience and live them."
Projects
The Other City
Language Variation and Change in the Geographies of Suburbs
Inventing Grand Paris: Visual Culture, Regeneration and the Right to the City