About

Lys Granier is a Montréal-based essayist and urban geographer whose work explores how cities express moral ideals through their design, behaviour, and climate. Her essays examine the sensory and ethical life of urban spaces—how fences, benches, noise bylaws, and gestures of care reveal competing visions of trust and control.

Her ongoing project, The Moral Aesthetics of the Contemporary City, traces the quiet moral systems that shape civic life, from the politics of stillness and surveillance to the fragile ethics of play, attention, and renewal.

Granier’s writing combines lyrical observation with moral philosophy, drawing on her background in urban studies and public evaluation. She is currently developing a collection of essays that situates Montréal as both subject and lens: a city that makes its ethics visible in every texture, rhythm, and light.