Bruno Carvalho leading an effort to create a secondary field in urban studies
This article is part of a series introducing new faculty members. Bruno Carvalho has published research on topics ranging from environmental justice and race to city planning and literature. His award-winning “Porous City: A Cultural History of Rio de Janeiro” made the case for his native city as a place of cultural history defined by porous spaces and structural inequalities. Carvalho earned his Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures here in 2009. He is co-editor of the book series “Lateral Exchanges,” about architecture and urbanism in a global context. Q&A Bruno Carvalho GAZETTE: Can you talk about your research? carvahlo: My research is a bit wide-ranging, but it broadly focuses on cities as lived and imagined spaces, especially in Brazil. I’m beginning work on a cultural history of futures. We can think of much of modernity in terms of competing visions of what the future ought to be like. In contrast, today, with the realities...