Loretta Lees

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Loretta Lees is affiliated with the following schools: University of Leicester, Boston University, University of British Columbia, University of Edinburgh, King's College London

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According to Wikipedia, Loretta Lees is a university professor, urbanist, author, and scholar-activist. She is the Director of the Initiative on Cities and professor of sociology at Boston University. Prior to moving to Boston, she was Professor of Human Geography at the University of Leicester in the UK and served as Chair of the London Housing Panel working with the Mayor of London and Trust for London. Since 2009, she has co-organized The Urban Salon, a London forum and seminar series for architecture, cities, and international urbanism, which examines urban experiences using an international and comparative frame. Lees’ scholarship focuses on gentrification, urban regeneration, global urbanism, urban policy, urban public space, architecture, and urban social theory. She was identified as the only woman in the top 20 most referenced authors in urban geography worldwide and the top author on gentrification globally. She was awarded the 2022 Marilyn J. Gittell Activist Scholar Award from the Urban Affairs Association. Other accolades of Lees include her election as a fellow of Academia Europaea in 2022, and Academy of Social Sciences in 2013. She has published 16 books and over 100 journal articles and book chapters. Her research has been featured extensively in documentaries, newspapers, and in podcasts.

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Loretta Lees's Published Works

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Published Works

Gentrification and Social Mixing: Towards an Inclusive Urban Renaissance? (2008) (765)
A reappraisal of gentrification: towards a ‘geography of gentrification’ (2000) (601)
New-Build ‘Gentrification’ and London's Riverside Renaissance (2005) (578)
Super-gentrification: The Case of Brooklyn Heights, New York City (2003) (468)
New-build gentrification: its histories, trajectories, and critical geographies (2010) (319)
Super‐gentrification in Barnsbury, London: globalization and gentrifying global elites at the neighbourhood level (2006) (299)
The geography of gentrification (2012) (263)
Global gentrifications: Uneven development and displacement (2015) (234)
Urban geography: discourse analysis and urban research (2004) (219)
Towards A Critical Geography of Architecture: The Case of an Ersatz Colosseum (2001) (204)
Mixed Communities: Gentrification by Stealth? (2011) (194)
The urban injustices of New Labour’s ‘new urban renewal’: the case of the Aylesbury Estate in London (2014) (167)
Moving beyond Marcuse: Gentrification, displacement and the violence of un-homing (2019) (162)
Introduction to Special Issue on Gentrification and Public Policy (2008) (159)
Visions of 'Urban Renaissance' the Urban Task FOrce Report and the Urban White Paper (2003) (144)
Gentrification research: new directions and critical scholarship (2004) (140)
Rematerializing geography: The ‘new’ urban geography (2002) (132)
Gentrification in New York, London and Paris: An International Comparison* (1995) (130)
Spatial capital, gentrification and mobility: evidence from Swiss core cities (2011) (124)
Rethinking gentrification : beyond the positions of economics or culture (1994) (111)
The ambivalence of diversity and the politics of urban renaissance: the case of youth in downtown Portland, Maine (2003) (100)
The Gentrification Reader (2010) (100)
Resisting gentrification on its final frontiers: Learning from the Heygate Estate in London (1974–2013) (2016) (93)
Introduction: Locating gentrification in the Global East (2016) (86)
Measuring and mapping displacement: The problem of quantification in the battle against gentrification (2020) (83)
Gentrification in London and New York: An Atlantic gap? (1994) (73)
Ageographia, Heterotopia, and Vancouver's New Public Library (1997) (71)
Policy (Re)Turns: Gentrification Research and Urban Policy–Urban Policy and Gentrification Research (2003) (70)
Defensible space on the move: Revisiting the urban geography of Alice Coleman (2013) (70)
Handbook of Gentrification Studies (2018) (69)
Regenerating London : governance, sustainability and community in a global city (2009) (67)
A ‘building event’ of fear: thinking through the geography of architecture (2011) (65)
Urban geography: ‘New’ urban geography and the ethnographic void (2003) (62)
In the Pursuit of Difference: Representations of Gentrification (1996) (61)
The Emancipatory City: paradoxes and possibilities (2004) (60)
Arts-led regeneration in the UK: The rhetoric and the evidence on urban social inclusion (2015) (55)
De- Gentrification and Economic Recession: The Case of New York City. (1995) (51)
Critical geography and the opening up of the academy: lessons from ‘real life’ attempts (1999) (50)
Resisting Planetary Gentrification: The Value of Survivability in the Fight to Stay Put (2018) (48)
Gentrification, Race, and Ethnicity: Towards a Global Research Agenda? (2016) (45)
Emotion, Place and Culture (2009) (41)
The right to community? (2018) (40)
Envisioning the livable city: The interplay of "Sin City" and "Sim City" in Vancouver's planning discourse (1998) (38)
Latin American gentrifications (2016) (36)
Research relevance, `knowledge transfer¿ and the geographies of CASE studentship collaboration (2005) (34)
Resisting ‘Austerity Gentrification’ and Displacement in Southern Europe (2016) (34)
Mixed CommunitiesGentrification By Stealth (2011) (32)
Introduction: gentrification, social mix/ing and mixed communities (2011) (29)
‘The Emancipatory City’: Urban (Re)Visions (2004) (29)
Book Review: Montréal: the quest for a metropolis (2002) (27)
The social cleansing of London council estates: everyday experiences of ‘accumulative dispossession’ (2020) (26)
Urban Renaissance in an Urban Recession: The End of Gentrification? (2009) (24)
London's regeneration (2009) (24)
Progress in Gentrification Research? (2007) (18)
Gentrifying down the urban hierarchy: ‘the cascade effect’ in Portland, Maine (2006) (18)
Ponga, Glass and Concrete (1995) (18)
Textures of place: exploring humanist geographies (2002) (18)
The death of sustainable communities in London (2014) (16)
Social Mix and the City: Challenging the Mixed Communities Consensus in Housing and Urban Planning Policies (2012) (15)
Sustainable London? The Future of a Global City (2014) (14)
Introduction: 'gentrification' - a global urban process? (2015) (14)
Conclusion: global gentrifications (2015) (13)
Planetary gentrification and urban (re)development (2019) (13)
Commercial Gentrification, Ethnicity, and Social Mixedness: The Case of Javastraat, Indische Buurt, Amsterdam (2020) (12)
Guest Editorial (2004) (12)
Feminist Geography in Aotearoa/New Zealand: A workshop (1995) (11)
Unruly cities? Order/disorder (2000) (10)
Unsettling cities: movement/settlement (2000) (9)
Sold out? The right-to-buy, gentrification and working-class displacements in London (2020) (9)
Introduction: towards a C21st global gentrification studies (2018) (8)
Chapter 9 - The rebirth of high-rise living in London: towards a sustainable, inclusive, and liveable urban form (2012) (8)
The Weaving of Gentrification Discourse and the Boundaries of the Gentrification Community Synopsis (1999) (8)
Planning London: a conversation with Peter Hall (2009) (8)
“So, Don’t You Want Us Here No More?” Slow Violence, Frustrated Hope, and Racialized Struggle on London’s Council Estates (2021) (7)
Gentrification in the Global South (2014) (7)
VANCOUVER: A PORTFOLIO (1998) (7)
Art-led regeneration in Margate: Learning from Moonbow Jakes Café and Lido Nightclub intervention (2012) (7)
The everyday lived experiences of Airbnbification in London (2021) (7)
Warping the Cloth That Academics Weave: A Reply to Bondi (and Rose and Smith) (1999) (6)
Commentary (2010) (5)
Legal Geographies of Resistance to Gentrification and Displacement: Lessons from the Aylesbury Estate in London (2020) (5)
Comparative urbanism in gentrification studies: fashion or progress? (2018) (5)
Special issue: locating gentrification in the Global East (2016) (5)
Planetary Gentrification Planetary Gentrification (2018) (4)
Turf wars: discourse, diversity, and the politics of place (2010) (4)
Osmosis across defensible space: observations and lessons from dérives in London during COVID-19 (2022) (4)
Meanings, politics and realities of social mix – a view from Brussels (2011) (4)
There goes the 'hood: views of gentrification from the ground up (2007) (4)
The emotional and psychological impacts of London’s ‘new’ urban renewal (2020) (4)
American cities and technology: wilderness to wired city (2000) (3)
Chapter 2 - Planning London: a conversation with Peter Hall: Chapter taken from Regenerating London ISBN: 978-0-203-88671-7 (2012) (3)
Planning Urbanity – A Contradiction in Terms? (2016) (3)
Crime prevention and the visible public realm (2008) (2)
De-Gentrification or Disaster Gentrification? Debating the Impact of COVID-19 on Anglo-American Urban Gentrification (2021) (2)
Chapter 9 - The rebirth of high-rise living in London: towards a sustainable, inclusive, and liveable urban form: Chapter taken from Regenerating London ISBN: 978-0-203-88671-7 (2012) (2)
Segregation, Social Mix, and Gentrification (2021) (2)
The ‘New’ Middle Class, Lifestyle and the ‘New’ Gentrified City (2014) (2)
Spaces of modernity: London's geographies 1680-1780. (2000) (2)
"DISPLACEABILITY - A SOUTHEASTERN PERSPECTIVE" (2018) (2)
Tone Huse: Everyday Life in the Gentrifying City: on displacement, ethnic privileging, and the right to stay put (2015) (2)
The City: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences, Vol. 2: Land-use, structure and change in the Western city (2002) (1)
Collaborative postgraduate research in a contract research culture (2010) (1)
London’s future and sustainable city building (2014) (1)
Resisting Planetary Gentrification (2020) (1)
Revisiting urban public space through the lens of the 2020 global lockdown (2022) (1)
Chapter 1 - London’s regeneration (2012) (1)
Gentrification, urban policy and urban geography (2022) (1)
Guest Editorial—Changing Urban Geographies: Perspectives on Anglo-American Urban Research (2004) (1)
Method and methodology in human geography (2014) (1)
Beyond urban sustainability and urban resilience: towards a socially just future for London (2014) (1)
Gentrifying the World City (2011) (1)
Council estate renewal in London (2020) (1)
Reviews: Scholar's Choice, Textures of Place: Exploring Humanist Geographies (2002) (1)
Narratives of Displacements: Introduction to the Themed Issue (2020) (1)
Re-encountering Andy Merrifield and The Politics of Encounter: Urban Theory and Protest under Planetary Urbanization (2014) (1)
Alpha City: How London Was Captured by the Super-Rich (2021) (0)
Full Issue PDF Volume 5, Issue 2 (2017) (0)
Pluralistic and comparative analysis of gentrification in London and New York (1995) (0)
A Eulogy to Critical Urbanist Sandra Annunziata (1979-2019) (2020) (0)
Thanks to Reviewers (2011) (0)
Book reviews: Marcuse P, Connolly J, Novy J, Olivio I, Potter C, and Steil J (2009) Searching for the Just City: Debates in Urban Theory and Practice. Abingdon: Routledge. 268 pp. £80 cloth. ISBN: 978 0 415 77613 4 (2011) (0)
Introduction: Latin American gentrifications (2016) (0)
Derek Hyra 2017: Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City . Chicago: University of Chicago Press (2018) (0)
De-Gentrification or Disaster Gentrification? (2021) (0)
Producing Gentrifi cation (2013) (0)
Planetary public space (2020) (0)
Urban Policy and the Future of Cities: An Interview with Josef Konvitz (2012) (0)
Visions of ‘urban renaissance’: the Urban Task Force report and the Urban White Paper (2003) (0)
Searching for the Just City: Debates in Urban Theory and Practice (2011) (0)
Understanding cities series in association with The Open University City worlds (2000) (0)
Book Review: The production of public space (1999) (0)
The Knowledge Business: Critical Perspectives on the commodification of urban research (2010) (0)
Th e Mutation of Gentrifi cation (2013) (0)
Tone Huse: Everyday Life in the Gentrifying City: on displacement, ethnic privileging, and the right to stay put (2014) (0)
Book Review: Turf wars: discourse, diversity, and the politics of place by Gabriella Gahlia Modan. Oxford: Blackwell 2007. 376 pp. Pb. £19.99. ISBN 9781405129558 (2010) (0)
Contemporary Gentrifi cation (2013) (0)
The Medical Self: Therapy and Ethics (2009) (0)
Review: Spaces of Global Cultures: Architecture, Urbanism, Identity (2006) (0)
Reprint of: Gentrification in New York, London and Paris: An International Comparison, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (2002) (0)
Quantifying state-led gentrification in London: Using linked consumer and administrative records to trace displacement from council estates (2022) (0)
All Material of Value (2016) (0)
Review of Planetary Gentrification (2018) (0)
Book review: Searching for the Just City: Debates in Urban Theory and Practice (2012) (0)
Chapter 16 - Young people and the regeneration of the King’s Cross Ten Estates: Chapter taken from Regenerating London ISBN: 978-0-203-88671-7 (2012) (0)
Book review: Remaking London: Decline and Regeneration in Urban Culture (2015) (0)
Th e Future of Gentrifi cation (2013) (0)
Cities and Gender by Helen Jarvis with Paula Kantor and Jonathan Cloke (2010) (0)
The Planetary Gentrification Reader (2022) (0)

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