Carlos López Galviz

Co-investigator Carlos López Galviz is Lecturer in the Theories and Methods of Social Futures and founding Associate Director of the Institute for Social Futures, a new centre for future-forming interdisciplinary research in Lancaster University. Carlos’s work focuses on the historic relationship of cities and infrastructure, particularly urban mobility and transport, and how we can connect our understanding of that relationship in the past to its future today. He has published widely on 19th-century London and Paris, deploying a ‘past futures’ perspective. His recent publications include Global Undergrounds (Reaktion, 2016) and the monograph Cities, Railways, Modernities: London, Paris and the Nineteenth Century (Routledge, 2019). He is co-editor of the Handbook of Social Futures (Routledge, 2021), an agenda-setting work in the growing field of social futures.