Bryan Mark

Bryan Mark

First Name: 
Bryan
Last Name: 
Mark
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PhD Candidate (he/him)
Biography : 

I am an urban geographer who studies contemporary urban cultures. My work is interested in consumption, neighbourhood gentrification, and the mediatization of place. My previous graduate work traced the retail gentrification of Ossington Avenue in west downtown Toronto through a cultural and digital critique of an ice-cream boutique. My SSHRC-funded doctoral research examines the urban geographies of social media influencers and algorithmic content curation in Toronto.

Publications 

Bain, A.L. and Mark, B. (2020) Re-imaging, re-elevating, re-placing the urban: gentrification and the transformation of Canadian inner cities. In M. Moos, R. Walker, and T. Vinodrai (eds) Canadian Cities in Transition: Understanding Contemporary Urbanism. Sixth Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 277-291.

Mark, B. (2023) Aestheticizing hipster retail infrastructure: from Neapolitan to cosmopolitan. In Alison L. Bain and Julie A. Podmore (eds) The Cultural Infrastructure of Cities. Newcastle: Agenda Publishing, 161-170.

Education: 
MA, Geography, York University
BFA (Honours), Film (Screenwriting) and Urban Studies, York University

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Cities; culture and consumption; gentrification; hipster geographies; media and technology

Supervisor

Zachary Hyde

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