David Ley

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David Ley

Earth Sciences

#203

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#427

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Geography

#45

World Rank

#99

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David Ley's Degrees

PhD Geography University of British Columbia
Masters Geography University of British Columbia
Bachelors Geography University of British Columbia

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According to Wikipedia, David Frederick Ley is a geographer and a professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia. Ley was born in Swansea, Wales, earned his B.A. at Oxford University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. at Pennsylvania State University. He is known for his substantial empirical and theoretical contributions to the field of social, cultural and urban geography.

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David Ley's Published Works

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Published Works

The New Middle Class and the Remaking of the Central City (1997) (743)
Artists, Aestheticisation and the Field of Gentrification (2003) (737)
Alternative Explanations for Inner-City Gentrification: A Canadian Assessment (1986) (446)
Back to Hong Kong: return migration or transnational sojourn? (2005) (350)
Transnational spaces and everyday lives (2004) (345)
Place/Culture/Representation (1993) (336)
LIBERAL IDEOLOGY AND THE POSTINDUSTRIAL CITY (1980) (309)
URBAN GRAFFITI AS TERRITORIAL MARKERS (1974) (274)
Gentrification and the Politics of the New Middle Class (1994) (240)
Landscape as Spectacle: World's Fairs and the Culture of Heroic Consumption (1988) (191)
A Social Geography of the City (1982) (191)
Are There Limits to Gentrification? The Contexts of Impeded Gentrification in Vancouver (2008) (165)
Introduction to Special Issue on Gentrification and Public Policy (2008) (159)
The Immigrant Church as an Urban Service Hub (2008) (155)
Seeking Homo Economicus: The Canadian State and the Strange Story of the Business Immigration Program (2003) (144)
Millionaire Migrants: Trans-Pacific Life Lines (2010) (142)
Explaining Variations in Business Performance Among Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Canada (2006) (142)
Relations between Deprivation and Immigrant Groups in Large Canadian Cities (2000) (140)
MYTHS AND MEANINGS OF IMMIGRATION AND THE METROPOLIS (1999) (139)
Immigration, Globalisation and House Prices in Canada's Gateway Cities (2001) (139)
Structural Marxism and Human Geography: A Critical Assessment (1982) (137)
Styles of the times: liberal and neo-conservative landscapes in inner Vancouver, 1968–1986 (1987) (135)
INNER‐CITY REVITALIZATION IN CANADA: A VANCOUVER CASE STUDY (1981) (131)
Between Europe and Asia: the Case of the Missing Sequoias (1995) (130)
Social Geography and the Taken-for-Granted World (1977) (113)
Humanistic geography : prospects and problems (1979) (100)
The Changing Social Geography of Canadian Cities (1993) (98)
Gentrification in Recession: Social Change in Six Canadian Inner Cities, 1981-1986. (1992) (97)
Immigration in gateway cities: Sydney and Vancouver in comparative perspective (2001) (93)
Gentrification in Hong Kong? Epistemology vs. Ontology (2014) (90)
REPRESENTING SPACE: SPACE, SCALE AND CULTURE IN SOCIAL SCIENCE (2013) (88)
The Black inner city as frontier outpost : images and behavior of a Philadelphia neighborhood (1976) (84)
LOCATIONAL CONFLICT AND THE POLITICS OF CONSUMPTION (1980) (81)
Introduction: Representing the place of culture (2013) (78)
Assimilation, Cultural Pluralism, and Social Exclusion among Ethnocultural Groups in Vancouver (2003) (78)
Global China and the making of Vancouver's residential property market (2017) (78)
Reply: The Rent Gap Revisited (1987) (76)
SOCIAL UPGRADING IN SIX CANADIAN INNER CITIES (1988) (74)
Modalities of the New Middle Class: Ideology and Behaviour in the Journey to Work from Gentrified Neighbourhoods in Canada (2007) (73)
Cultural/humanistic geography (1981) (70)
Even in Canada? 1 The Multiscalar Construction and Experience of Concentrated Immigrant Poverty in Gateway Cities (2008) (69)
Transit-oriented development and gentrification along Metro Vancouver's low-income SkyTrain corridor (2016) (67)
Vancouver's Corporate Complex and Producer Services Sector: Linkages and Divergence within a Provincial Staple Economy (1987) (56)
Countervailing Immigration and Domestic Migration in Gateway Cities: Australian and Canadian Variations on an American Theme (2007) (55)
Immigration policy as population policy (2001) (50)
Humanistic geography prospects and problems (1980) (49)
Neighbourhood organizations and the welfare state (1995) (48)
Cultural/humanistic geography (1985) (47)
Does Transnationalism Trump Immigrant Integration? Evidence from Canada's Links with East Asia (2013) (47)
Immigration and Poverty in Canadian Cities, 1971-1991 (1997) (42)
SITES OF REPRESENTATION: PLACE, TIME AND THE DISCOURSE OF THE OTHER (2013) (40)
Location, Linkages, and Labor: The Downtown Complex of Corporate Activities in a Medium Size City, Vancouver, British Columbia (1987) (39)
Culture's Geographies (1988) (38)
Immigration, Polarization, or Gentrification? Accounting for Changing House Prices and Dwelling Values in Gateway Cities (2002) (35)
Homo Religiosus? Religion and Immigrant Subjectivities (2013) (35)
Geography without Man: A Humanistic Critique (1979) (34)
Divisions and Disparities in Lotus-Land: (2012) (34)
Geography without Man: A Humanistic Critique (1979) (34)
Forgetting postmodernism? Recuperating a social history of local knowledge (2003) (33)
Multiculturalism: A Canadian defence (2010) (31)
URBAN LIVEABILITY IN CONTEXT (1990) (31)
The price ripple effect in the Vancouver housing market (2019) (28)
Geography and Ethnic Pluralism (1984) (27)
SPECTACLE AND TEXT: LANDSCAPE METAPHORS IN CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY (2013) (26)
‘Highway to Heaven’: the creation of a multicultural, religious landscape in suburban Richmond, British Columbia (2016) (24)
“Middling” Chinese Returnees or Immigrants from Canada? The Ambiguity of Return Migration and Claims to Modernity (2014) (23)
Rediscovering man's place (1982) (22)
Immigration and the Changing Social Geography of Large Canadian Cities (2000) (22)
The German Immigrant Church in Vancouver: Service Provision and Identity Formation (2001) (22)
DOWNTOWN OR THE SUBURBS? A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF TWO VANCOUVER HEAD OFFICES (1985) (21)
MULTICULTURALISM: REPRESENTING A CANADIAN INSTITUTION (2013) (20)
The Spatial Ecology of Stripped Cars (1974) (19)
Work-residence Relations for Head Office Employees in an Inflating Housing Market (1985) (18)
World's Fairs and the culture of consumption in the contemporary city. (1992) (17)
Social mixing and the historical geography of gentrification (2011) (17)
URBAN GEOGRAPHY AND CULTURAL STUDIES (1996) (16)
Gentrification as Secularization: The Status of Religious Belief in the Post-Industrial City (1993) (15)
Residential relocation and the remaking of socialist workers through state-facilitated urban redevelopment in Chengdu, China (2018) (15)
1. The New Middle Class in Canadian Central Cities (1996) (15)
Neighborhood Organizations, the Welfare State, and Citizenship Rights (1997) (15)
MYTHS AND MEANINGS OF GENTRIFICATION (2013) (14)
AUTHOR AND AUTHORITY: WRITING THE NEW CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY (2013) (14)
The Chinese Diaspora: Space, Place, Mobility and Identity (2004) (13)
FROM URBAN STRUCTURE TO URBAN LANDSCAPE (1988) (13)
The City and Good and Evil: Reflections on Christian and Marxist Interpretations (1974) (13)
Community participation and the spatial order of the city (1974) (12)
The delphi technique in urban forecasting (1975) (12)
INTRODUCTION: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF IMMIGRATION (2006) (11)
Gentrification and Reform Politics in Montréal, 1982 (1986) (11)
A regional growth ecology, a great wall of capital and a metropolitan housing market (2020) (10)
The Personality of a Geographical Fact (1977) (9)
Qualitative methods: reshaping a tradition (1992) (8)
The political and social construction of revitalized neighborhoods: Society Hill, Philadelphia, and False Creek, Vancouver (2013) (8)
Is Comparative Gentrification Possible? Sceptical Voices from Hong Kong (2020) (8)
THE LIE THAT BLINDS: DESTABILIZING THE TEXT OF LANDSCAPE (2013) (7)
CO-OPERATIVE HOUSING AS A MORAL LANDSCAPE: RE-EXAMINING 'THE POSTMODERN CITY' (2013) (7)
PUBLIC HOUSING IN SINGLE-INDUSTRY TOWNS: CHANGING LANDSCAPES OF PATERNALISM (2013) (7)
Immigrant integration and religious transnationalism: the case of the ‘Highway to Heaven’ in Richmond, BC (2013) (7)
Existentialism and Human Geography (2014) (7)
The service sector and metropolitan development in Canada (2002) (7)
Book Review: Moral geographies: Ethics in a world of difference (2002) (7)
POSTMODERNISM, OR THE CULTURAL LOGIC OF ADVANCED INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL (1993) (7)
IMMIGRATION AND HOUSING IN GATEWAY CITIES : THE CASES OF SYDNEY AND VANCOUVER (6)
Global Gentrifications: Uneven Development and Displacement; and Planetary Gentrification (2017) (4)
Mapping the Metaphysical, Plotting the Pious: Assessing Four New Atlases of Religion (2002) (4)
Of Tribes and Idols: A Reply to Greenberg and Walker* (1982) (4)
Humanistic Geography (RLE Social & Cultural Geography) : Problems and Prospects (2014) (4)
REPRESENTING POWER: THE POLITICS AND POETICS OF URBAN FORM IN THE KANDYAN KINGDOM (2013) (4)
Vancouver Centre of Excellence Research on Immigration and Integration in the Metropolis (2003) (4)
Cultural/Humanistic Geography (1985) (3)
Housing Vancouver, 1972–2017: A personal urban geography and a professional response (2020) (3)
Housing Vancouver, 1972–2017: A personal urban geography and a professional response (2020) (3)
THEORETICAL PLURALISM IN ANGLO-AMERICAN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY (1994) (3)
Introduction: Contexts of Modern Humanism in Geography (2014) (3)
READING, COMMUNITY AND A SENSE OF PLACE (2013) (3)
Neighbourhood Organizations and the Welfare State. Shlomo Hasson and David Ley; From Urban Village to East Village: The Battle for New York's Lower East Side. Janet Abu-Lughod et al. (1995) (2)
Geography & Ethnic Pluralism (2022) (2)
Indicators of Entrepreneurial Success among Business Immigrants in Canada (2005) (2)
The Best Seller (1984) (2)
The Cross-Border Connection: Immigrants, Emigrants, and Their Homelands. By Roger Waldinger. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2015. vii, 231 pages. $29.95 (2016) (2)
PROGRESS REPORTS: URBAN STRUCTURE IN CONTEXT (1984) (2)
Methodology in Human Geography: Review@@@Ideology, Science and Human Geography@@@Humanistic Geography: Prospects and Problems (1980) (1)
Pinball Wizard (2023) (1)
Frederick W. Boal (1969) Territoriality on the Shankill-Falls divide, Belfast. Irish Geography 6: 30–50. (2014) (1)
On representing cultural geography (1993) (1)
Cultural/Humanistic Geography (1983) (1)
Global China and the making of Vancouver’s residential property market (2018) (1)
The social geography of the service economy in global cities (2005) (1)
A Review of “Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality and Badlands of the Republic: Space, Politics and Urban Policy” (2009) (1)
Book Review: Society, Action and Space: An Alternative Human Geography (1994) (1)
Establishing Roots: From the Nuclear Family to Substantive Citizenship (2010) (1)
Hong Kong movers and stayers: Narratives of family migration by Janet W. Salaff, Siu‐lun Wong, and Arent Greve (2012) (1)
Canadian Urban Landscape Examples (1989) (1)
Is Philosophy Necessary (2010) (1)
Åke Andersson and David Andersson (Eds.), Gateways to the Global Economy (2002) (0)
Directors and Voice Work: An Attempt to Bridge the Gap (2011) (0)
Review: Globalization and Belonging (2006) (0)
Uneasy reunions: immigration, citizenship, and family life in post‐1997 Hong Kong by N.D. Newendorp, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 2008. No. of pages: x + 299. SBN 978 0 8047 5813 0 (2009) (0)
Ephemeral Vistas: The Expositions Universelles, Great Exhibitions and World's Fairs, 1851–1939, Paul Greenhalgh. Manchester University Press, Manchester (1988), xii, +245. £29.95) (1989) (0)
Book Review: Cultural geography (2000) (0)
Roots and Routes: The Myth of Return or Transnational Circulation? (2010) (0)
Book Reviews : Davies, W.K.D. and Herbert, D.T. 1993: Commu nities within cities: an urban social geography. London: Belhaven Press. x + 198 pp. £37.00 cloth, £14.95 paper. ISBN: 1 852 93155 8 (1994) (0)
Book Reviews (2009) (0)
“Styles of the Times: Liberal and Neo-conservative Landscapes in Inner Vancouver, 1968–1986” from Journal of Historical Geography (1987) (2020) (0)
SOCIAL EFFECTS OF URBAN FREEWAYS (1975) (0)
David's Broken Line (2007) (0)
Book review: America's new downtowns: revitalization or reinvention? (2004) (0)
Editor's Note and Foreword (2012) (0)
This Black Inner City as Frontier Outpost.@@@Solidarity in a Slum.@@@Black Neighborhoods: An Assessment of Community Power. (1976) (0)
Geography (Still) Matters: Homo Economicus and the Business Immigration Programme (2010) (0)
Introduction: Trans‐Pacific Mobility and the New Immigration Paradigm (2010) (0)
URBAN STRUCTURE AND URBAN RESTRUCTURING (2013) (0)
Book Reviews (1995) (0)
Immigrant Reception: Contesting Globalization… or Resistant Racism? (2010) (0)
Transition: From the Orient to the Pacific Rim (2010) (0)
Asian Immigrants in Vancouver: From Caste to Class in Socio-Spatial Segregation? (2013) (0)
Coming Home to China. Yi-Fu Tuan (2008) (0)
Host Societies and the Reception of Immigrants (2005) (0)
Book reviews (1987) (0)
Book review (2000) (0)
Book Review: Unsettling cities: movement/settlement (2001) (0)
Book Review: The Cross-Border Connection: Immigrants, Emigrants, and Their Homelands (2016) (0)
Cosmopolitan Europe: A Strasbourg Self-Portrait. John Western. (2013) (0)
Book Review: Exploring Social Geography (1985) (0)
Conclusion: Immigrants in Space (2010) (0)
Calculating Agents: Millionaire Migrants Meet the Canadian State (2010) (0)
I can't resist windmills. (1988) (0)
Book Reviews (1982) (0)

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