Research Centre on the Future of Cities

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Research Centre on the Future of Cities

The Centre offers a unique interdisciplinary research environment in Canada, to address the pressing challenges of the 21st century by tackling the relationship between the transformation of cities, the climate and social crisis, and the Anthropocene.

Our research themes

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Post-growth and city transformations

Anthropocene and the urbanization of the world

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Living in the city and urban trajectories

Events

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Sep 25

African Cities: Questioning marriage, childbirth and gender norms in Lomé

First conference of the series: African cities through the lens of family, local dynamics and societal transformation.

In a context where permanent…

Sep 12

Book Launch: The Immaculate Conception of Data

Dr. Kelly Bronson‘s will offer a look into the struggle to control the food system and the role big data holds in this power play.
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Oct 19

Seafarers in Industrial Fishing: Examining migrant worker precarity

As part of the "Urban and Anthropocene Approaches" seminar, the uOttawa-ULyon Joint Research Chair on the Urban Anthropocene and l'École urbaine de Ly…