As a complement to their outstanding Encyclopedia of urban and regional studies, Wiley-Blackwell has published the Companion to Urban and Regional Studies, a book that covers the major issues, debates and research topics in urban and regional studies. The book is edited by Anthony M. Orum, Javier Ruiz-Tagle and Serena Vicari Haddock, and includes contributions […]
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Master of Urban Design: Art, City, Society (biennial)
📢 (ENG) Presenting from CRIT this specialisation in which several of our researchers take part teaching. This is an interdisciplinary master’s degree focused on the multiple aspects of the study, assessment, transformation and creation of public space. The master’s degree is based on the practical and theoretical experience of the various research groups in which […]
CRIT Webinars 2021
This year the CRIT will organize a series of monthly online seminars, in which both our researchers and other invited colleagues will offer us the progress of their research. The themes will always be in connection with the urban environment, social innovation, creativity and governance. The webinars take place the last week of each month. […]
Yearbook 2019
Click in the link to see CRIT research activities of the 2019.
Yearbook 2018
Check out the compilation of the 2018 publications and projects of CRIT members.
The Call for papers for the RC21 Conference in Antwerp next July is now open
The Call for papers for the RC21 Conference in Antwerp next July is now open. We have more than 80 different sessions, with different research topics. We hope you send a paper proposal and we can meet in Antwerp. The deadline for abstract submission is March 15th. In the Conference website you will find information […]
CRIT-CECUPS Seminar: “Sound, discomfort and the making of place in a urban environment” Karla Berrens
Next Friday, postdoctoral researcher Karla Berrens, who has recently joined CRIT, is presenting her work “Sound Discomfort and the making of place in a urban environment“. This paper explores alternative ways of hearing and inhabiting space in an urban environment in Barcelona. In the last three years I have closely worked with two associations of […]
El CRIT facilita l’accés a “The Wiley-Blackwell encyclopedia of urban and regional studies” per a tots els usuaris de la UB.
Ja està disponible per als usuaris de la UB “The Wiley-Blackwell encyclopedia of urban and regional studies”. L’enciclopèdia tracta els principals temes i les qüestions emergents per als estudis urbans i regionals arreu del món. Amb una perspectiva actualitzada i rigurosa, sota el guiatge de l’editor en cap Anthony Orum, i amb la participació en […]
“Post-crash urban and regional dislocation: Brexit and beyond” by Andrew Wallace (University of Leeds) CRIT SEMINAR . 07/10/2019.
The conditions and future of post-industrial cities and towns have been thrown into fresh turmoil by a spate of populist breakthroughs across the global North. In the UK, this has created severe anxieties about the political, economic and social future of communities alleged to be ‘left behind’ by global trends. Competing with a toxic nationalist discourse, one […]