Culture of Cities

The Culture of Cities Project is an international interdisciplinary five-year research project studying the lived experience of place in urban life. Areas of research focus on building and rebuilding, the circulation of objects and artifacts, representation of locality, the arts and citizenship. The purpose is to sustain the dialogue on the good city and the good of the city that is implicit or a tacit feature of research and commentary on urban life, and to inquire systematically into the various ways in which this dialogue is engage, repressed or redefined in the everyday life of cities. Settings in Montreal, Toronto, Berlin and Dublin constitue sites for ethnographic and interpretive research.