Geographie Nordamerikas & Stadtgeographie Robert Lemon

Robert Lemon is a visiting professor for Human Geography at the Institute of Geography and the Heidelberg Center for American Studies at Heidelberg University. He is a cultural and urban geographer with a passion for landscape studies. As an urban geographer and environmental designer, he has studied extensively the social practices and built transformations of cities through their aesthetic representation. But it is his love for the visual arts, and innovative design processes that motivates his work.

E-Mail: rdlemon@gmail.com

Forschungsschwerpunkte:

• Specializing in space, place, and landscape through human mobility, contemporary cultural and urban geography examines socio-spatial practices and how social actions create new meanings within built environments
• Research covers topics such as food performances, Latin American migration, communication geography, landscape contestation, neoliberalism, cosmopolitanism, and the right to the city, focusing on American urban landscapes as well as cities in Latin America and Europ