Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Cities (Tier 2)
Degrees
PhD, Geography, Utrecht University, 2010
MSc, Geography, Utrecht University, 2006
BA (Hons) Geography, University of Toronto, 2003
Contact information
brian.doucet@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 ext. 48594
Location: EV3 3249
www.briandoucet.com
Research Interests
- Gentrification
- Neighbourhood change
- Social and spatial inequalities
- Cycling, transit and urban mobility
- Grassroots movements and urban resistance
- European cities
- Detroit and old industrial cities
- Qualitative methods and lived experience research
- Visual methodologies and urban photography
Recent/key publications
Doucet B and Koenders D (2018) “At least it’s not a ghetto anymore:” experiencing the ‘false choice’ between gentrification and decay in Rotterdam’s Afrikaanderwijk” Urban Studies. 55(13) 3631 – 3649.
Zebracki, M; Doucet, B and de Brant, T. (2018) Beyond Picturesque Decay: Detroit and the Photographic Sites of Confrontation Between Media and Residents Space and Culture. https://doi.org/10.1177/1206331217753344
Doucet, B (2018) Airbnb and the struggle for the city: Fromm Amsterdam to Toronto and beyond. Plan Canada. 58(2) 21-27.
Doucet, B (Ed.) (2017) Why Detroit Matters: Decline, renewal and hope in a divided city (Bristol: Policy Press).
Doucet, B (2017) Why Detroit Matters: Lessons and Visions. Town and Country Planning. March, pp. 97 – 105.
Doucet B and Smit E (2016) ‘Building an urban 'renaissance:' fragmented services and the production of inequality in Greater Downtown Detroit’ Journal of Housing and the Built Environment. 31(4), 635-657.
Doucet, B (2016) ‘Ongelijkheid, gentrificatie en de stad’ in Liukku, E. and Mandias, S. (Eds) Help, wij zijn populair! Rotterdam Stad in Verandering. Rotterdam, Nai 010.
Doucet, B (2015) Faillissement in Detroit: een spiegel voor Nederlands beleid. Stedenbouw en Ruimtelijk Ordening. 96(1) 38 – 41.
Koenders, D and Doucet B (2015) De Afrikaanderwijk in Rotterdam: de ‘nieuwste wijk in town.’ Geografie. maart.
Doucet, B (2014) ‘A process of change and a changing process: introduction to the special issue on contemporary gentrification’ Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie. 105(2) 125 – 139.
Ernst, O and Doucet, B (2014) ‘A window on the (changing) neighbourhood: the role of pubs and cafés in the contested spaces of gentrification,’ Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie. 105(2) 189 – 205.
Doucet, B (2014) The story of Detroit through ten buildings. Town and Country Planning. 83(1) 34 – 40.
Doucet, B (2013) Lessons from the Motor City: Why Detroit Matters for the 21st Century World. Practicing Planner. Winter 2013
Doucet, B (2013) ‘Four days in Detroit: a Dutch urban geography fieldtrip to the Motor City.’ Belgeo. 2013, 2.
Doucet, B (2013) ‘Variations of the entrepreneurial city: goals, roles visions in Rotterdam’s Kop van Zuid and the Glasgow Harbour megaprojects,’ International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 37(6) 2035 – 2051.
Doucet, B (2013) ‘Detroit: Droom of nachtmerrie,’ Agora. 2013-4, 20 – 24.
Doucet, B and Duignan, E (2012) ‘Experiencing Dublin’s Docklands: perceptions of employment and amenity changes in the Sheriff Street community,’ Irish Geography. 45(1) 45 – 65
Doucet, B; van Kempen, R and van Weesep, J (2011) ‘‘We’re a rich city with poor people’: municipal strategies of new-build gentrification in Rotterdam and Glasgow’ Environment and Planning A.43, 1458 – 1454.
Doucet, B; van Kempen, R and van Weesep, J (2011) ‘Resident perceptions of flagship waterfront regeneration: the case of the Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam’ Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie.102(2), 125-145.
Doucet, B (2009) ‘Living through gentrification: subjective experiences of local, non-gentrifying residents in Leith, Edinburgh’ Journal of Housing and the Built Environment. 24, 299-315.
Doucet, B (2009) ‘Global flagships, local impacts’ Urban Design and Planning. 162(DP3) 101-107.
Affiliation:
University of Waterloo
