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Professor Loretta Lees (FAcSS, FRSA)
School of Geography, Geology and the EnvironmentUniversity of LeicesterUniversity Road
Leicester LE1 7RH, UK.Email: [email protected]
SUMMARY Loretta Lees is an urban geographer who is internationally known for her research on gentrification/urban regeneration, global urbanism, urban policy, urban public space, architecture and urban social theory. Since 2009 she has co-organised The Urban Salon: A London forum for architecture, cities and international urbanism (see http://www.theurbansalon.org/) and since 2016 the Leicester Urban Observatory (www.leicesterurbanobservatorywordpress.com/). She has been identified as the 17th most referenced author in urban geography worldwide (Urban Studies, 2017) and the only woman in the top 20.
CURRENT POSITION Chair of Human Geography (2013-), Co-Director of Centre for Critical and Creative Geographies (2016-), Director of Research (2013-17) Department of Geography, University of Leicester.
PREVIOUS ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Professor in Human Geography (2008-13) and Chair of the Cities Group (2010-13), Reader (2005-2008), Senior Lecturer (2004-2005), Lecturer (1997-2004) Department ofGeography, King’s College London, UK.
Post-doctoral Fellow in Geography (1995-1997) University of British Columbia, Canada.Visiting Lectureship in Geography (1994) University of Waikato, New Zealand.
EDUCATION
1995 Ph.D Geography University of Edinburgh, U.K. (thesis title: Gentrification in Londonand New York City: an international comparison). Awarded outright.
1989 B.A. (Hons) Geography FIRST CLASS Queen's University of Belfast, U.K.(subsidiary courses taken: social anthropology and psychology).
PUBLICATIONS
Books1. LEES,L., Slater,T. and Wyly,E. (in prep) The Gentrification Reader 2nd edit , Routledge:
New York.2. LEES,L. and Warwick,E. (under contract) Defensible Space: mobilization in British
Housing Policy and Practice, RGS-IBG Book Series, Wiley.3. LEES,L. with Phillips,M. (2018) (eds) Handbook of Gentrification Studies, Edward Elgar.
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4. LEES,L., Shin,H. and Lopez-Morales,E. (2016) Planetary Gentrification Polity Press: Cambridge. (the launch text for their new series ‘Urban Futures’) [see ow.ly/uvKF30cqigX]
5. LEES,L., Shin,H. and Lopez-Morales,E. (eds) (2015) Global Gentrifications: uneven development and displacement, Policy Press: Bristol.
6. Imrie,R. and LEES,L. (eds) (2014) (eds) Sustainable London? The future of a global city, Policy Press: Bristol.
7. The London Tenants Federation, LEES,L, Just Space and SNAG (2014) Staying Put: AnAnti-Gentrification Handbook for Council Estates in London (hardcopy andelectronically).
8. Bridge,G., Butler,T., and LEES,L. (eds) (2011) Mixed Communities: gentrification by stealth?, Policy Press: Bristol. (Republished 2012 by University of Chicago Press).
9. LEES,L., Slater,T. and Wyly,E. (2010) The Gentrification Reader, Routledge: London.10. Imrie,R., LEES,L. and Raco,M. (2009) [editors] Regenerating London: governance,
sustainability and community in a global city, Routledge: London.11. Kitchen, R. and Thrift, N. (editors in chief) with Anderson, K., Castree, N., Cloke, P.,
Crampton, J., Crang, M., Domosh, M., Graham, B., Hadjimichalis, C., Hubbard, P., Kearns, R., Kwan, M-P., LEES, L., McLafferty, S., Paasi, A., Philo, C., Sidaway, J., Willis, K., Yeung, H. (editors) (2009) The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Elsevier. [Awarded 'CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2010' in the Social and Behavioural Sciences category].
12. LEES,L., Slater,T. and Wyly,E. (2008) Gentrification, Routledge: New York. 13. LEES,L. (2004) [editor] The Emancipatory City: paradoxes and possibilities?, Sage:
London. 14. Hoggart,K., LEES,L , and Davies,A. (2002) Researching Human Geography, Arnold,
UK/Oxford University Press, USA. (Republished 2012 by Routledge, and as an e-book).
Guest Edited Special Issues of Journals
1. López-Morales,E., Shin, H, and LEES,L. [guest editors] (special issue) (2016) Latin American gentrifications, Urban Geography, 37(8).
2. Shin,H., LEES,L. and López-Morales,E. [guest editors] (special issue) (2016) Locating Gentrification in the Global East, Urban Studies, 53(3).
3. LEES,L and Ley,D. (2008) [guest editors] Gentrification and Public Policy, Urban Studies, 45(12).
4. Kenny,J. and LEES,L. (2004) [guest editors] Changing Urban Geographies: perspectives on Anglo-American urban research, special issue of Urban Geography, 25(8).
5. Slater,T., Curran,W., and LEES,L. (2004) [guest editors] Gentrification Research: new directions and critical scholarship, special issue of Environment and Planning A, 36(7).
6. LEES,L. (1998) [guest editor] Vancouver: A Portfolio, special issue of Urban Geography, 19(4).
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Journal Papers
1. LEES,L. and White,H. (under review) Social cleansing in London: geographies of dispossession and the case for council housing, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.
2. Hubbard,P. and LEES,L. (under review) The right to community: legal geographies of resistance on London’s final gentrification frontier, CITY.
3. LEES, L. (2018) Resisting gentrification in (Southern) European cities, per una agenda urbana anti espulsione, Urbanisticatre (http://www.urbanisticatre.uniroma3.it/dipsu/?page_id=5358)
4. LEES,L., Annunziata, S. and Rivas-Alonso, C. (2018) Resisting Planetary Gentrification: the value of survivability in the fight to stay put, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, invited paper for special issue on Social Justice and the City.
5. LEES,L. (2016) Gentrification, Race and Ethnicity: towards a global research agenda, City and Community, 15:3:208-214. DOI:10.1111/cico.12185.
6. Annunziata, S and LEES,L.(2016) Resisting 'Austerity Gentrification' and Displacement in Southern Europe., Sociological Research Online, http://www.socresonline.org.uk/21/3/5.html DOI:10.5153/sro.4033.
7. López-Morales,E., Shin,H., and LEES,L. (2016) Latin American Gentrifications, Urban Geography, 37:8:1091-1108.
8. LEES,L. and Ferreri, M. (2016) Resisting gentrification on its final frontiers: lessons fromthe Heygate Estate in London (1974-2013), Cities, 57:14-24.
9. Shin,H., LEES,L. and López-Morales,E. (2016) Introduction: Locating Gentrification in the Global East, Urban Studies, 53:3:455-470.
10.LEES,L. and Melhuish,C. (2015) Arts-led regeneration in the UK: the rhetoric and the evidence on urban social inclusion, European Urban and Regional Studies, 22:3:242-260.
11. LEES,L. (2014) Re-encountering Andy Merrifield and his ‘The Politics of Encounter: urban theory and protest under planetary urbanization’, Dialogues in Human Geography,4:2:233-235.
12.LEES,L. and McKiernan,J. (2012 [2014]) Art-led regeneration in Margate: learning fromMoonbow Jakes café and Lido Nightclub intervention, Art and the Public Sphere, 2:1-3:17-35
13.LEES,L. (2014) The urban injustices of New Labour’s ‘new urban renewal’: the case of the Aylesbury Estate in London, Antipode, 46:4:921-947.
14.Jacobs,J. and LEES,L. (2013) Defensible space on the move: revisiting the urban geography of Alice Coleman, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 37:5:1559-1583.
15.LEES,L. (2012) Urban policy and the future of cities: an interview with Josef Konvitz, Environment and Planning A, 44:2124-2133.
16.LEES,L. (2012) The geography of gentrification: thinking through comparative urbanism, Progress in Human Geography, 36:2:155-171.
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17.LEES,L and Baxter,R. (2011) A ‘Building Event’ of Fear: thinking through the geography of architecture, Social and Cultural Geography, 12:2:107-122.
18.Rerat, P. and LEES,L. (2011) Spatial Capital, Gentrification and Mobility: lessons from Swiss Core Cities, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 36:1:126-142.
19.LEES,L. (2010) Planning Urbanity? Environment and Planning A, 42:2302-2308.
20.Davidson,M. and LEES,L. (2010) New-Build Gentrification: its histories, trajectories, and critical geographies, Population, Space and Place, 16:395-411.
21.LEES,L. (2009) Urban renaissance in an urban recession: the end of gentrification? Environment and Planning A, 41:1529-1533.
22.Warwick,E. and LEES,L. (2008) Crime prevention and the visible public realm, BuildingResearch and Information, 36:6:680-683.
23.LEES,L. and Ley,D. (2008) Introduction: Gentrification and Public Policy, Urban Studies 45 (12): 2379-2384.
24.LEES,L. (2008) Gentrification and Social Mixing: Towards an Urban Renaissance? Urban Studies 45 (12): 2449-2470. (Republished in 2014 50th anniversary virtual special issue of Urban Studies as the most downloaded paper in Urban Studies since 2007; discussed as one of the key papers in urban studies in advancing theory in urban research in http://usj.sagepub.com/content/51/5/865.full).
25.LEES,L. (2007) Reprint of: The Ambivalence of Diversity and the Politics of Urban Renaissance: the case of youth in downtown Portland, Maine, USA, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 27 (3): 613-634, in The Urban Reinventors (first issue, June, www.urbanreinventors.net)
26.LEES,L. (2007) Progress in gentrification?, Environment and Planning A, 39:1:228-234.
27.Butler,T. and LEES,L. (2006) Super-gentrification in Barnsbury, London: globalisation and gentrifying global elites at the neighbourhood level, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 31: 467-487.
28.Demeritt,D. and LEES,L. (2005) Research Relevance, ‘Knowledge Transfer’, and the Geographies of CASE Studentship Collaboration, Area, 37 (2) 127-137.
29.Davidson,M. and LEES,L. (2005) New Build ‘Gentrification’ and London’s Riverside Renaissance, Environment and Planning A, 37 (7) 1165-1190. (cited in ESRC Human Geography Benchmark Report as in top 1% of most cited Geography publications).
30.Kenny,J. and LEES,L. (2004) Changing Urban Geographies: perspectives on Anglo-American urban research, Urban Geography, 25 (8) 693-696.
31.Slater,T., Curran,W., and LEES,L. (2004) Gentrification Research: New Directions and Critical Scholarship, Environment and Planning A, , 36(7):1141-1150.
32.LEES,L. (2004) Urban Geography: discourse analysis and urban research, Progress in Human Geography, 28 (1): 101-107.
33.LEES,L. (2003) Super-gentrification: the case of Brooklyn Heights, New York City, Urban Studies, 40 (12):2487-2509.
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34.LEES,L. (2003) The Ambivalence of Diversity and the Politics of Urban Renaissance: the case of youth in downtown Portland, Maine, USA, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 27 (3): 613-634. Reprinted in The Urban Reinventors (2007, first issue, June) (www.urbanreinventors.net).
35.LEES,L. (2003) Policy (Re)turns: urban policy and gentrification, gentrification and urban policy, Environment and Planning A, 35 (4): 571-574.
36.LEES,L. (2003) Urban Geography: ‘New’ urban geography and the ethnographic void, Progress in Human Geography, 27 (1):107-113.
37.LEES,L. (2002) Rematerializing geography: the ‘new’ urban geography, Progress in Human Geography, 26 (1):101-112.
38.LEES,L. (2001) Towards a Critical Geography of Architecture: the case of an ersatz colosseum, Ecumene: A Journal of Cultural Geographies, 8 (1): 51-86.
39. LEES,L. (2000) A Re-appraisal of Gentrification: towards a ‘geography of gentrification’, Progress in Human Geography, 24 (3): 389-408.
40.LEES,L. (1999) Critical Geography and the Opening Up of the Academy: lessons from ‘real life’ attempts, Area, 31(4): 377-383.
41.LEES,L. (1999) Warping the Cloth that Academics Weave: a reply to Bondi (Rose and Smith), Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 17(3):255-257.
42. LEES,L. (1999) The Weaving of Gentrification Discourse and the Boundaries of the Gentrification Community, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 17(2):127-132.
43.LEES,L. (1998) Vancouver: A Portfolio, Urban Geography, 19(4): 283-286.
44.LEES,L. and Demeritt, D. (1998) Envisioning ‘The Livable City’: The Interplay of 'Sin City' and ' Sim City' in Vancouver's Planning Discourse, Urban Geography, 19 (4):332-359.
45.LEES,L. (1997) Ageographia, Heterotopia, and Vancouver's New Public Library, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 15 (3): 321-347.
46.LEES,L. (1996) In the Pursuit of Difference: Representations of Gentrification, Environment and Planning, A, 28 (3): 453-470.
47.LEES,L. and Bondi,L. (1995) De-gentrification and Economic Recession: The Case of New York City, Urban Geography, 16 (3): 234-253.
48.LEES,L. and Berg,L.D. (1995) Ponga, Glass and Concrete: A Vision for Urban Socio-cultural Geography in Aotearoa/New Zealand, New Zealand Geographer, 51(2): 32-41.
49.Carpenter,J. and LEES,L. (1995) Gentrification in New York, London and Paris: An International Comparison, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 19 (2): 286-303.
50.LEES,L. and Longhurst,R. (1995) Feminist Geography in Aotearoa/New Zealand: A Work Shop, Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, 2 (2): 219-224.
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51.LEES,L. (1994) Rethinking Gentrification: Beyond the Positions of Economics and Culture, Progress in Human Geography, 18 (2): 137-150.
52.LEES,L. (1994) Gentrification in London and New York: An Atlantic Gap? Housing Studies, 9 (2): 199-217.
Book Chapters 1. LEES, L. (2018) Towards a C21st Global Gentrification Studies, in LEES,L. with
Phillips,M. (eds) Handbook of Gentrification Studies, Edward Elgar. 2. LEES, L.. (2018) Doing comparative urbanism in gentrification studies: fashion or
progress?, in LEES,L. with Phillips,M. (eds) Handbook of Gentrification Studies, Edward Elgar.
3. LEES,L. (2017) Salford, (re)tracing my roots, and the ‘new’ urban renewal, in Brake,J. and van Aitken, J. (eds) All materials of value, IUD, p.25-29.
4. LEES,L. (2016) Gentrification, in Jayne,M. and Ward,K. (eds) Urban Theory: New Critical Perspectives, Routledge: New York, pp.134-145.
5. LEES,L., Shin,H. and Lopez-Morales, E. (2015) Introduction: ‘gentrification’ a global urban process? in LEES,L., Shin,H. and Lopez-Morales, E. (Eds) Global Gentrifications: uneven development and displacement, Policy Press: Bristol, pp.1-18.
6. LEES,L., Shin,H. and Lopez-Morales, E. (2015) Conclusion: Global gentrifications, in LEES,L., Shin,H. and Lopez-Morales, E. (Eds) Global Gentrifications: uneven development and displacement, Policy Press: Bristol, pp.441-452.
7. LEES,L. (2015) Gentrification, in Wright,J. (Editor-in Chief); Wu,F. (section editor), International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioural Sciences (2nd edition, Vol 10), Elsievier, pp.46-52.
8. LEES,L. (2014) The death of sustainable communities in London?, in Imrie,R. and LEES,L. (eds) Sustainable London? The future of a global city, Policy Press: Bristol, pp.149-172.
9. Imrie,R. and LEES,L. (2014) London’s future and sustainable city building, in Imrie,R. and LEES,L. (eds) Sustainable London? The future of a global city, Policy Press: Bristol,pp.3-28.
10. LEES,L. and Imrie,R. (2014) Beyond urban Sustainability and urban resilience’: towardsa socially just future for London, in Imrie,R. and LEES,L. (eds) Sustainable London? The future of a global city, Policy Press: Bristol, pp.305-316.
11. LEES,L. (2014) Gentrification in the Global South?, in Parnell,S. and Oldfield,S. (eds) The Routledge Handbook on Cities of the Global South, Routledge: New York, , pp.506-521.
12. LEES,L. (2014) Class, lifestyle and the ‘new’ gentrified city, in Paddison,R. and McCann,E. (eds) Cities and Social Change, Sage: London, pp.35-55.
13. LEES, L., Just Space, The London Tenants Federation and Southwark Notes Archive Group (SNAG) (2013) ‘Challenging ‘the New Urban Renewal’: the social cleansing of council estates in London’, in Campkin, B., Roberts, D. and Ross, R. (eds) Urban Pamphleteer #2 'London: Regeneration Realities', London: Urban Lab, UCL, pp.6-10.
14. LEES,L. (2012) Gentrification, in Carswell,A. (ed) The Encyclopedia of Housing (secondedition), Sage: Thousand Oaks.
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15. LEES,L. (2012) Gentrification and the Right to the City, in Lawrence,R., Turgut, H, and Kellett,P. Requalifying the Built Environment: challenges and responses, Hogrefe, Gottingen, pp.69-92.
16. LEES,L. (2012) Planning Urbanity: a contradiction in terms?, in Helbrecht,I. and Dirksmeier,P. (eds) New Urbanism: life, work, and space in the new downtown, Ashgate, pp.23-38.
17. LEES,L. (2012) Gentrifying the world city, in Derudder,B., Hoyler,M., Taylor, P, and Witlox,F. (eds) International Handbook of Globalization and World Cities, Edward Elgar, pp.628-642.
18. LEES,L., Butler,T, and Bridge, G. (2011) Introduction: gentrification, social mix/ing and mixed communities, in Bridge,G., Butler,T., and LEES,L. (eds) (2011) Mixed Communities: gentrification by stealth?, Policy Press: Bristol. (Republished 2012 by University of Minnesota Press).
19. LEES,L. (2010) Super-gentrification: the case of Brooklyn Heights, New York City, excerpted in Brown-Saracino,J. (ed) The Gentrification Debates, Routledge: New York, pp.45-50.
20. LEES,L. (2010) A Re-appraisal of Gentrification: towards a ‘geography of gentrification’,reprinted in LEES,L., Slater,T. and Wyly,E. (eds) The Gentrification Reader, Routledge: London, pp.382-396.
21. LEES,L. and Demeritt,D. (2010) Postgraduate Research in a Contract Research Culture: The Case of ESRC CASE and ESRC ODPM Studentships, in Allen,C. and Imrie,R. (eds)The Knowledge Business, Ashgate: Aldershot.
22. LEES,L. (2009) Urban Geography, in Gregory,D., Johnston,R., Pratt,G., Watts,M. and Whatmore,S. (eds) The Dictionary of Human Geography, Blackwell: Oxford.
23. Imrie,R., LEES,L. and Raco,M. (2009) Introduction, in Imrie,R., LEES,L. and Raco,M. (eds) Regenerating London: governance, sustainability and community in a global city, Routledge: London.
24. Baxter,R. and LEES,L., (2009) The rebirth of high-rise living in London: towards a sustainable and liveable urban form, in Imrie,R., LEES,L. and Raco,M. (eds) Regenerating London: governance, sustainability and community in a global city, Routledge: London.
25. Brown,N. and LEES,L. (2009) Young people and the regeneration of the King’s Cross Ten Estates, in Imrie,R., LEES,L. and Raco,M. (eds) Regenerating London: governance,sustainability and community in a global city, Routledge: London.
26. LEES,L. (2006) Gentrifying down the urban hierarchy: ‘the cascade effect’ in Portland, Maine, USA, in Bell,D. and Jayne,M. (eds) Small cities: urban experience beyond the metropolis, Routledge: London. pp. 91-104.
27. LEES,L. (2004) The emancipatory city: urban (re)visions, in LEES,L. (ed) The Emancipatory City: paradoxes and possibilities?, Sage: London, pp.3-20.
28. LEES,L. (2003) Visions of ‘Urban Renaissance’: the Urban Task Force Report and the Urban White Paper, in Imrie,R. and Raco,M. (eds) Urban Renaissance? New Labour, community and urban policy, Policy Press: Bristol, pp.61-82.
29. LEES,L. (2002) Urban Geography: the ‘death’ of the city?, in Rogers,A. and Viles, H. (eds) The Student’s Companion to Geography (2nd edition), Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 123-128.
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30. Carpenter,J. and LEES,L. (2002) Reprint of: Gentrification in New York, London and Paris: An International Comparison, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, in Pacione,M. (ed) The City: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences, Vol. 2: Land-use, structure and change in the Western city, Routledge: London and New York, pp.544-566.
31. LEES,L. (2001) Urbanization, human geography, in Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers: London and Chicago, pp. 1726-1727.
32. LEES,L. (1999) The Pacific Northwest: Rural Backwater to Urban Ecotopia, in Boal,F. and Royle, S. (eds) North America: A Geographical Mosaic, Arnold: London, pp.239-248.
33. LEES,L. (1998) Urban Renaissance and the Street: Spaces of Control and Contestation, in Fyfe, N. (ed) Images of the Street: Planning, Identity and Control in Public Space, Routledge: London and New York, pp.236-253.
Other Publications
Interview in 'Novoe Proshloe/ the New Past (2017) (http://newpast.sfedu.ru/en/about/) The City and the Text, in Russian and English. Doi: 10.23683/ 2500-3224-2017-3-168-171.Interview in Café de las Ciudades (2017) in Spanish.http://www.cafedelasciudades.com.ar/politica_urbanidad_154.html
Reports
1. Lees,L. (2017) Report for GLA’s draft good practice guide to estate regeneration. Submitted to GLA.
2. White,H. and Lees,L. (2015) Report for draft Housing and Planning Bill, Why we Can’t Afford to Lose it: local authority housing in London protects the poor from homelessness. Submitted as Evidence.
3. Lees, L. (2015) Report for Planning Committee, GLA, on estate regeneration. Submitted as Evidence.
4. Lees,L. (2015) Evidence to Aylesbury Estate Public Inquiry.
5. Lees, L. (2014) Report for Housing Committee, GLA, on the demolition and refurbishment of London’s council estates. Submitted as Evidence.
6. Lees,L. (2013) Evidence to the Heygate Estate Public Inquiry.
7. Lees,L., Just Space, London Tenants Federation and Southwark Group Archive Notes (2013) Report - Developing alternatives for communities facing gentrification and displacement, published by the LTF.
Book plus Other Reviews
1. LEES,L. (2018) Review of How TV Frames the Working Class, City of Trees and How Racism Harms White Americans, Films for the Feminist Classroom.
2. LEES,L. (2015) Review of T. Huse, Everyday Life in the Gentrifying City: on displacement, ethnic privileging, and the right to stay put, Journal of Housing and Built Environment, 30:4:705-706.
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3. LEES,L. (2014) Review of B. Campkin, Remaking London: decline and regeneration in urban culture, Progress in Human Geography.
4. LEES,L. (2012) Review of K. Arthurson, Social mix and the city: challenging the mixed communities consensus in housing and planning policies, International Planning Studies,17:4:421-423.
5. LEES,L. (2011) Review of Marcuse P, Connolly J, Novy J, Olivio I, Potter C, and J. Steil,Searching for the Just City: Debates in Urban Theory and Practice, Progress in Human Geography 35: 276-278.
6. LEES,L. (2010) Review of H. Jarvis with P. Kantor and J. Cloke, Cities and Gender, The Canadian Geographer, 54:4:515.
7. LEES,L. (2009) Review of M. Smith, J. Davidson, L. Cameron and L.Bondi (eds) Emotion, Place and Culture, Geography, 9:229-230.
8. LEES,L. (2010) Review of G. Gahlia Modan: Turf Wars: discourse, diversity, and the politics of place, Cultural Geographies, 17:1:138.
9. LEES,L. (2007) Review of L. Freeman: There goes the ‘Hood: views of gentrification from the ground up, Environment and Planning A, 39:3029-3030.
10. LEES,L. (2006) Review of A. King: Spaces of global cultures: architecture, urbanism, identity, Environment and Planning A, 38: 10: 1773-1774.
11. LEES,L. (2005) Review of R.Atkinson and G. Bridge (eds): Gentrification in a global context, Housing Studies, 20:5: 851-854.
12. LEES,L. (2003) Review of M.Pacione: Urban Geography: a global perspective, Space and Polity, 6:1:117-118.
13. LEES,L. (2003) Review of N. AlSayyad (ed): Hybrid Urbanism: on the identity discourseand the built environment, International Planning Studies , 8:1:80-82.
14. LEES,L. (2002) Review of P.Adams, S. Hoelscher, and K. Till (eds): Textures of Place: exploring humanist geographies, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 20:376-378.
15. LEES, L. (2002) Review of A. Germain and D. Rose: Montreal: the quest for a metropolis, Progress in Human Geography, 26:2:273-274.
16. LEES,L. (2000) Review of M. Ogborn: Spaces of Modernity: London’s Geographies 1680-1780, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 19:3: 639-642.
17. LEES,L. (2000) Review of J. Allen, D. Massey and M. Pryke (eds) Unsettling Cities: Movement/Settlement, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 25:2:259-260.
18. Black,I., Byron,M., DeFilippis,J., Green,D., Hamnett,C., Hoggart,K., LEES,L. (2000) Review of Understanding Cities Series in association with The Open University: D. Massey, J. Allen and S. Pile (eds) City Worlds, J. Allen, D. Massey and M. Pryke (eds) Unsettling Cities: Movement/Settlement, S. Pile, C. Brook and G. Mooney (eds) Unruly Cities? Order/Disorder. Environment and Planning A, 32:559-560.
19. Black,I., Byron,M., DeFilippis,J., Green,D., Hamnett,C., Hoggart,K., LEES,L. (2000) Review of The Cities and Technology Series in association with The Open University: C. Chant and D. Goodman (eds) Pre-industrial Cities and Technology, C. Chant (ed) The Pre-industrial Cities and Technology Reader, D. Goodman and C. Chant (eds) European Cities and Technology: industrial to post-industrial city, D. Goodman (ed) The European Cities and Technology Reader: industrial to post-industrial city, G.K. Roberts and J.P.
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Steadman (eds) American Cities and Technology: wilderness to wired city, G.K. Roberts and J.P. Steadman (eds)The American Cities and Technology Reader: wilderness to wiredcity. Environment and Planning A, 32:377-380.
20. LEES,L. (1999) Review of A. Light and J. Smith (eds): Philosophy and Geography II: theproduction of public space, Progress in Human Geography, 23:3:487-489.
21. LEES,L. (1999) Review of R. Fincher and J. Jacobs (eds) Cities of Difference, Space and Polity, 3:1:111-113.
22. LEES,L. (1998) Double Review of T. Butler: Gentrification and the Middle Classes and N. Smith: The New Urban Frontier: gentrification and the revanchist city, Environment and Planning A, 30:12:2257-2260.
23. LEES,L. (1997) Review of M. Gottdiener: Postmodern Semiotics: material culture and the forms of postmodern life, The Canadian Geographer, 41:4:444.
24. LEES,L. (1996) Review of S. Watson and K. Gibson (eds): Postmodern Cities and Spaces, The Canadian Geographer, 40:3:282-283.
GRANTS
Won:1. PI: LEES,L., CoI: Portelli,S. Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions ‘SDD:
Spirits of Displacement and Diaspora (€269,857 [£192,755]) Duration 1.8.17 to 31.7.20.
2. PI: LEES,L., CoIs: Hubbard,P. and Tate,N. ESRC 2017-2020. Gentrification, Displacement, and the Impacts of Council Estate Renewal in C21st London (£615,341; full fec £769,176). Duration 1.2.17 to 30.11.19 [ES/N015053\1]
3. PI: LEES,L. CoI: Sakizlioglu,B., Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions ‘GGG: Gendered Geographies of Gentrification’ (€195,454 [£139,610]). Duration 1.4.16 to 30.9.18.
4. PI: LEES,L. Leicester University Impact Fund, (£10,000) Cambridge House case files on homelessness due to displacement from council estates in London.
5. PI: LEES,L. CoI: Sakizlioglu,B. Prime Ministry of Turkey General Directorate for Turkish Citizens Living Abroad and Kindred Communities, ‘Ethnic Dynamics and Politics of Gentrification: The Case of Amsterdam’ ’ (£8,000)
6. PI: LEES,L. CoI: Annunziata,S. FP7-PEOPLE-2013 Marie Curie Action Fellowship 2014-2016 ‘AGAPE: Exploring anti-gentrification practices and policies in Southern European Cities’ (€221,606 [£158,290]).
7. PI: LEES,L. KCL Public Engagement Fund 2012 (£400) ‘Developing Alternatives to Mixed Communities Policy’.
8. PI: LEES,L. CoIs: London Tenants Federation, Richard Lee/Just Space and Mara Ferrei, Antipode Activist Scholar Award 2012 (£10,000). ‘Challenging ”the New Urban Renewal”: gathering the tools necessary to halt the social cleansing of council estates anddeveloping community-led alternatives for sustaining existing communities’.
9. PI: LEES,L. Geography Department Research Stimulus Fund, KCL 2012 (£1,170) ‘Urban Regeneration and the London Plan - A Public Engagement Seminar’.
10. PI: LEES,L. CoIs: Shin,H., López, E. and Herzer,H., Urban Studies 2011-12 Seminar Series Competition (£19,960) ‘Towards an Emerging Geography of Gentrification in the Global South’.
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11. PI: LEES, L. CoIs: Pratt,A., Jordan,M., Miles,M. and Bachmann, G. 2011. AHRC Connected Communities Programme, Project Development Grant (£11,718) ‘The art of regeneration: community resililience in an age of austerity’.
12. Butler,T and LEES,L.(CoIs) DAAD King’s-Humboldt Promoting German Studies in the UK, 2010/11. (£8,000) Comparative urbanism: London and Berlin (with Professor Ilse Helbrecht and Professor Talja Blokland, Humboldt, Berlin).
13. PI: Butler,T., CoIs: LEES,L., Bridge,G. and Slater,T. 2007-2009 ‘Gentrification and Social Mixing’ (£18,000) ESRC Seminar Programme. [ESRC RES-451-26-0340].
14. LEES,L. 2007 Travel grant from The British Academy (£500) to attend the ‘Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers 2007’ held in San Francisco, USA.
15. LEES,L. (PI) 2003-2006 ‘High Rise Living in London: Towards an Urban Renaissance’ (£39,000) from ESRC under ODPM studentship programme.
16. LEES,L. (PI) 2003-2005 ‘The ‘walkable city’: the dimensions of walking and overlapping walks of life’ (£37,350) from ESRC under CASE studentship programme, collaborating partner - Arup Transport Planning, Ove Arup and Partners.
17. LEES,L. (PI) 2001-2004 ‘An Investigation into the Construction and Implications of Fearbetween Youth and Adults on an Inner City London Housing Estate’ (£37,350) from ESRC under CASE studentship programme, collaborating partner – the Peabody Trust.
18. LEES,L. (joint PI with David Demeritt) 2001-2004 ‘Putting Urban Sustainability into practice: an ethnography of BedZed, London’ (£37,350) from ESRC under CASE studentship programme, collaborating partner – the Peabody Trust.
19. LEES,L. (PI) 2000-2003 ‘Super-gentrification in Brooklyn Heights, New York City’ (£5,000) from The British Academy. [SG 301-70].
20. LEES,L. 1999 Travel grant from The British Academy (£400) to attend the ‘Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers 1999’ held in Honolulu, USA.
21. LEES,L. (PI) 1998 ‘The Reconfiguration of Public Space in Portland, Maine’ (£2,000) from RGS-IBG HSBC Holdings.
22. LEES,L. (PI) 1997 ‘Urban Lifestyles and Sustainability in Vancouver’ ($1,600 CAN) from Environment Canada.
23. LEES,L. 1996 ‘Gentrification: international comparison’ (£200) from RGS - Dudley Stamp Memorial Award for the dissemination of geographical knowledge abroad. Taken up in visit to Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
24. LEES,L. (PI) 1995-1997 ‘Imaging the City – Vancouver, Canada’ (£25,000 plus approx. £4,000 of travel, conference, and related expenses) from Leverhulme Trust Study AbroadFellowship scheme. One of 20 research fellowships awarded annually for all subjects in the U.K.
25. LEES,L. (PI) 1990-1993 ‘Gentrification in London and New York: an international comparison’, (£18,000) from Department of Education Northern Ireland (DENI) under their Post-graduate Social Science Studentship Programme.
26. LEES,L. (PI) 1988 ‘The Gentrification Frontier: a study of the Lower East Side area of Manhattan, New York City’ (£500) Sir Thomas Dixon Scholarship, Queen's University ofBelfast.
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PRESTIGOUS INVITATIONS
I. Visiting Professorships
2017 Visiting Professor, The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway.
2017 Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology and Human Geography University of Oslo, Norway.
2016 Visiting Professor, Urban Studies, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy.
2016 Key Thinker in Geography - Visiting Professor, Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht, Netherlands.
2015 Visiting Professor, Department of Geography, Spatial Planning and Environment, University of Nijmegen, Netherlands.
2008 Visiting Professor, Department of Geography, University of Barcelona, Spain.
II. Plenary/Keynote/Public Lectures (listed only those I accepted)
November 2017. Public Lecture and Discussion, How to stay put? Housing regeneration and struggles in South London, LSBU Borough Road Gallery, London.November 2017. Key note, Gentrification in Southwark and what can be done about it, Southwark Tenants AGM, London.November 2017 Key note, Planetary Gentrification, Housing, Commodification and Alienation, School of Architecture, De Montfort University.May 2017 Public lecture, Planetary Gentrification, La Monde Diplomatique, London.http://www.mondediplofriends.org.uk/planetary-gentrification-impacts-solutions/May 2017 Public lecture, Urban planning and displacement, ICA, London. https://www.ica.art/whats-on/urban-planning-social-cleansingApril 2017 Plenary and roundtable, Architectures of Displacement: Planetary Gentrification –China/Liverpool, LOOK/17: UK/China Cultural Exchange, Tate Exchange Liverpool. (http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-liverpool/talk/look17-1)March 2017 Public lecture, From planetary to provincial gentrification: lessons for Leicester, City Series, Leicester Urban Observatory Leicester Urban Observatory, https://leicesterurbanobservatory.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/17-02-020-gg-lees-city-series-event-poster.pdf
January 2017 Keynote, Gentrification and Displacement, People’s History Museum, Manchester, organized by Institute of Urban Dreaming (audio: https://iudblog.org/)
October 2016 Book presentation pro qm bookshop, Berlin and Kosmos workshop Universal gentrification? Conceptual challenges of comparative urbanism, organized by Andrej Holm,funded by Future Concept resources Humboldt University Berlin through the Excellence Initiative of the German Federal Government and its Federal States.
April 2016 Keynote Dialogue, Home in the Housing Crisis, Geffrye Museum, London
March 2016 Public Panel, What I learned from Johnny Bevan, Soho Theatre, London.
February 2016, Public Panel, Re: Home, Yard Theatre, London.
February 2016 Public Panel, Corbynomics for Everyday Life (Lambeth, Lewisham, and Southwark Momentum Groups in collaboration with Brick Lane Debates, Red Pepper, and Verso Books, Karibu Education Centre, Brixton.
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November 2015 Public Panel, Another Lambeth is Possible, Pop Box, Brixton.
November 2015 Seminar on London as a Global Gentrifying City to Joint MSc in SustainableUrban Development programme run by the Prince’s Foundation and Oxford University, ThePrince’s Foundation, Shoreditch, London.
October 2015. Public Lecture, The Alexander Von Humboldt lectures on ‘Relational Approaches to Urban Transformations’, University of Nijmegen, Netherlands.
September 2015. Public Panel, Re-generated Futures. Project 27. Bussey House Arts Café, Peckham, London.
June 2015. Public Lecture, RSA Islington, Islington’s changing Sense of Place, The HighburyCentre, London.
June 2015. Keynote, Cities, Race and Gentrification workshop, The Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University and Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Lloyds Building, London.
May 2015. Keynote, Performing urban resistance: an exploration of Southwark’s culture of gentrification protests, HARC, Royal Holloway’s Humanities and Arts Research Centre, Senate House, London.
March 2015. Private Lecture, Tottenham Labour Party (Labour party members only), Tottenham, London.
February 2015. Public Panel, ‘City, Country, Suburb?’, Royal Academy of the Arts, London. (blog and podcast - https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/podcast-city-country-suburb)
December 2014. Public Lecture, Ruth Glass and London: Aspects of Change 1964-2014, UCL. (podcast - https://www.mixcloud.com/UCLurbanlab/loretta-lees-ruth-glass-coins-gentrification/)
October 2014. Public Lecture, ‘Questioning time: housing and social justice, Teach in, University of East London.
October 2014. Public Lecture, ‘My Islington’, RSA Islington, Tonkin-Liu Architects, London.
October 2014 Public Lecture, ‘Gentrification’, TEDxBrixton, ‘When Worlds Collide’, EvelynGrace Adademy, Brixton (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMz1x5_yF2Q)
29 June to 4 July 2014 Plenary Speaker, Summer Institute in Urban Studies (SIUS), University of Manchester.
June 2014 Public Lecture, ‘The death of sustainable communities in London?’, 60th Anniversary Event – ‘A tale of two cities? Class and space in Paris and London’, CUCR, Goldsmiths, London.
April 2014 Plenary Lecture, ‘Gentrification in the Global South?’, Heritage, Cities and the Global Turn, UK-Colombia consortium, Brunel University, London.
February 2013 Public Lecture, ‘State-led Gentrification in C21st London’, UvA-Department of Sociology and Anthropology Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR).
December 2012 Keynote, ‘Gentrification and Displacement in London’, Housing and Migration in Britain, Conference organised by the PopGRG at the Royal Geographical Society, London.
November 2012. Public Lecture,’ Culture-led regeneration’, The RSA and the Library of Birmingham, ‘Rewriting the Book’, cross panel exchange, chaired by BBC’s Mark Urban: ‘The potential of large scale culture-led development projects to regenerate urban spaces
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and communities’, RSA, London. (see http://www.thersa.org/events/audio-and-past-events/2012/rewriting-the-book).
September 2012: Keynote, ‘How a National Plan can provide for True Integration’, Respond!Jubilee30 Conference – Does Ireland need a National Housing Plan?, Dublin.
March 2012: Keynote, ‘Arts-led regeneration in the UK: the rhetoric and the evidence on urban social inclusion’, Art and the Public Sphere: Critical Urban Geography I, School of Art, Loughborough University.
September 2011: Keynote, ‘Gentrification, social movement and art’, Gothenberg City Museum, Sweden.
July 2011: Plenary, ‘The urban injustices of New Labour’s “new urban renewal”’, Approaches, practices and challenges of ‘mixité’ in different urban contexts, European Network on Housing Research, Toulouse, France (https://www.canal-u.tv/video/universite_toulouse_ii_le_mirail/the_grammar_of_mixed_communities_urban_injustice_and_the_aylesbury_estate_vf_loretta_lees.7586)
January 2011: Public Lecture, ‘The promise of the urban’, for Inauguration of KISS-DTC, KCL.
July 2010: Keynote, ‘Between thin ideals and thick practicalities: discussing regeneration policies and anti-gentrification efforts in London and NYC ‘, Center for Metropolitan Studies, Technical University of Berlin, Germany.
May 2010: Plenary, ‘Towards a Communicative Construction of Space’, IRS- Erkner, Germany.
February 2010: Annual public lecture BDA (Bund Deutscher Architekten und Architektinnen), ‘Planning Urbanity?’, Hamburg City Museum, Germany.
October 2009: Keynote, ‘Gentrification and the Right to the City’, Requalifying the Built Environment, IAPS Housing Network and the IAPS Culture and Space in the Built Environment Network (CSBE), Istanbul, Turkey.
May 2008: Keynote, ‘London: towards an embarasse du riches’, Issues for London, Urban Salon, University College London.
March 2008: Keynote, ‘Planning urbanity: a contradiction in terms?’, Symposium - planning urbanity: life/work/space in the new downtown, HafenCity, Hamburg, Germany.
November 2007: Keynote, ‘New-build gentrification: its history, trajectories and critical scholarship’, New-build gentrifications: form, places, processes, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland.
April 2007: Plenary, ‘Critical urban geography and the right to the city’, Reclaiming the City, organized by The City journal, Association of American Geographers conference, San Francisco, USA.
April 2007: Plenary, ‘Fear of and in the residential highrise’, Fear, the city and political mobilization: an international workshop, INRS-UCS Montreal, Canada.
February 2007: Public lecture, ‘Gentrification and social mixing’, LSE Public Cities Lecture, LSE Cities Programme.
September 2005: Plenary discussant, ‘Critical geographies of architecture’, Spaces of Knowledge, Traces of Flows: Architecture and Geography, RGS-IBG Annual Conference, London.
April 2003: Keynote, ‘Gentrification and the idea of social mixing’, Urbanism 2003: New Urban Cultures: gentrification and immigration, Department of Urbanism and the
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Norwegian Architects Association Oslo School of Architecture, Oslo University, Norway. (One of four international speakers, the others being Robert Beauregard, Michael Pryke and Andres Duany).
September 2002: Keynote, ‘Super-gentrification in Brooklyn Heights, New York City’, Upward Neighbourhood Trajectories: gentrification in a new century, organized by the Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow, UK.
III. Other Prestigious Invitations (listed only those I accepted)
2017. Invited to talk on the impacts of displacement, at showing of documentary Dispossession and fund raiser for Aylesbury Estate Public Inquiry, Cambridge House.2017. Invited to talk and be on panel on (Dis)Placemaking: Gentrification and What To Do About It?, Placemaking Conference, Amsterdam.2017. Invited to chair meeting at the GLA on the draft good practice guide to estate
regeneration, City Hall.
2016. Invited panel discussant, Brixton Conversations, UCL Urban Lab, Bartlett School of Architecture.
2014. Invited to AHRC closed, expert workshop ‘Curating Community? The relational and agonistic value of participatory arts in super-diverse localities’, Centre for Creative Collaboration, CUCR, Goldsmiths.
2013. Invited presentation, ‘Gentrification, globalization and the post-colonial challenge’, by Ananya Roy (Berkeley) in the sessions on ‘Genres of Global Urbanism’, AAG, Los Angeles.
2012. Invited presentation, ‘Gentrification in London and New York City’, CAPA International Education, Eccles Centre for American Studies, Global Cities, Globalisation & the Transatlantic World, Social City panel.
2011. Invited presentation, ‘The ‘new urban renewal: urban injustices on the Aylesbury Estatein London’, Grammars of Urban Injustice Workshop, University of Durham.
2011. Invited presentation, ‘Gentrification and Children’s Geographies’, Children and Gentrification seminar, University of Nanterre, France.
2010. Invited presentation, ‘The geography of gentrification: thinking through comparative urbanism’, Cities are back in town: London in comparative perspective seminar, Sciences Po, France.
2009. Invited presentation, ‘Gentrification and Social Mixing’, London First Westminster.
2006. Invited presentation, ‘Gentrification and Social Mixing, Department of Geography, Oxford University.
2006. Invited discussant by the Smith Institute to 11 Downing Street seminar on neighbourliness, January 25th.
2005. Invited discussant by the Smith Institute to 11 Downing Street seminar on City-centric policy, June 8th.
2004. Invited presentation, ‘Urban Public Space and the Emancipatory City’, Public Sphere Network, University of Durham.
2003. Invited presentation, ‘Urban regeneration in London’, ESRC Seminar Series led by Sophie Watson - Transforming London – rethinking regeneration through commerce, planning and art. (Other invitees were Gary Bridge, Don Mitchell, Drew Stevenson [GLA] and Piers Gough [the London based architect]).
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ACADEMIC AWARDS AND HONOURS
2008 Supervisory Excellence Award, King’s College London, awarded annually for excellence in supervising PhD students.
2008 Nominated by Head of Department for Teaching Excellence Award. Runner up in School of Social Sciences and Public Policy.
1989/90 Queen’s University of Belfast Foundation Award for Research or Advanced Study (£500). Awarded to those with the best undergraduate results to urge them to go on toPhD research
1989 Estyn Evans Best Dissertation Prize, Department of Geography, Queen’s University of Belfast, U.K.
1986 Estyn Evans First Year Geography Prize, Department of Geography, Queen’s University of Belfast, U.K.
EDITORIAL ROLES AND SERVICE
Associate Editor: Geoforum (2015-2016)Editorial Boards sat/sitting on: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (2017-), Journal of Urban Affairs (2016-), City and Society (Journal of the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association)
(2010-present), Art and the Public Sphere (2010-present), Dialogues in Human Geography (2009-present), Geography Compass – Urban Geography (2006-present), Environment and Planning A (2002-2012), The Canadian Geographer (2004-2006), ACME: an international e-journal for critical geographies (2003-2006).
LEARNED SOCIETY AND OTHER ACADEMIC SERVICE
2017 Reviewer for Journal of Urban Affairs Scholar Development Program.
2017 External reviewer Irish Research Council Laureate Awards Programme.
2017 External reviewer CUNY grant panel.
2017 ESRC Interview Panel – UK Housing Evidence Centre.
2016 ESRC Commissioning Panel – UK Housing Evidence Centre.
2016 External reviewer DAAD PRIME programme (post-doctoral researchers international mobility experience)
2016 quality assurance role - Urban strategies for Public Spaces in Area based Initiatives: Investigation of three European Cities (“CITYSPACE”) Norwegian Research Council.
2015 RSA Heritage Ambassador for Islington
2014-2016 On Advisory Panel for AHRC project on International Rural Gentrification, Professor Martin Phillips and Professor Darren Smith.
2015-2016 ESRC Future Research Leaders Commissioning panel
2015-2016 ESRC Future Research Leaders virtual sift panel
2014-2016 ESRC Peer Review College.
2014- On Advisory Panel for CRUSH (Critical Urban Sustainability Hub) in Sweden.
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2011- On the Advisory Board of Ixia (A Public Art Think Tank providing guidance on the role of art in the public realm).
2012 - Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal (Portuguese equivalent of ESRC) external assessor on research grants.
2011 Professorial appointments panel, Department of Geography, University of Maynooth, Ireland.
2008-2011 ESRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship Peer Review College.
2004-2007 Research Committee, Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers.(The tasks involved discussing and commenting on all aspects of geography research with respect to the RGS-IBG, from the RAE panel to research funding to the RGS’s research programme).
2000-2003 Chair of the Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers Urban Geography Research Group (UGRG). (Beyond the routine administrative tasks associated with this position - organizing conference sessions that set the research agenda; managing the budget; contributing to RGS consultations of government research policy, ie. the Roberts report on research funding, consultation on establishment of AHRB as a research council, etc., I set out to try to reinvigorate British urban geography as both an academic sub-discipline and an RGS-IBG research group).
1998-2000 Committee member Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers Urban Geography Research Group (UGRG).
REVIEWING SERVICE
For research councils: ESRC, AHRC, NWO (Dutch) [Innovational Research Incentives Scheme Vidi 2015], DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) PRIME; SHRCC (Canadian), NSF (US), Latvian Social Science Research Council, ISRF (Independent SocialScience Research Foundation), EU, FCT (Foundation for Science and Technology), Portugal, Israeli Science Foundation (ISF), Leverhulme, British Academy, Joseph Rowntree, Finland, Norwegian Research Council.
For funders: British Federation of Women Graduates (BFWG postgraduate awards for women), PSC-CUNY.
For publishers: Future Cities series being developed by Polity. Book proposals and books for UBC Press, Blackwell, Arnold, Paul Chapman, Routledge, Policy Press, University of Minnesota Press, Sage, Fordham University Press, Pluto Press, Rowman International.
For journals: I review upwards of 20 journal articles (and increasingly special issue proposals) a year for journals such as: ACME: an international E-journal for critical geographers; American Journal of Public Health; Annals of the Association of American Geographers; Applied Geography; Area; Children, Youth and Environments; City; City and Community; Cultural Geographies (formerly Ecumene); Environment and Planning A; Environment and Planning D: Society and Space; Erdkunde; European Urban and RegionalStudies; Gender, Place and Culture; Geoforum; Geography Compass; Geografiska Annaler Series B: Human Geography; Housing Policy Debate; International Journal of Urban and Regional Research; Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Culture; Planning Theory and Practice; Political Geography; Population, Space and Place; Social and Cultural Geography; The Australian Geographer; The Canadian Geographer; The New
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Zealand Geographer; Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers; Urban Affairs Review; Urban History; Urban Studies; Social Problems.
TEACHING AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Administrative roles
At University of Leicester
University
ESRC Funder Group
ESRC DTP bid team
ESRC Future Leaders
Departmental
Director of Research
REF Geography Lead
Co-Director Centre for Critical and Creative Geographies
Chair Research Committee
SLT team
At King’s College London
College:2011-12 ESRC DTC Award Panel.2006- 2009 Research Degrees Committee2001-2004 Film Studies Executive2000 -2003 American Studies Executive2000 - 2002 Academic Board
Departmental:2011- 2012 Research Committee2011-2013 MA/MSc Creative Cities Programme Leader2010-2013 Chair of Cities Group2010-2011 Research Executive2007 MA Tutor2004-2009 PARC2004-2008 Research Management Committee2001 -2006 PhD Admissions Tutor2000 Chair of Teaching Committee 2000 Head of Undergraduate Admissions 1999 Library Officer1998-1999 Chair of Cities Group
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1997-2000 UG Admissions tutor, mature and overseas students tutor, JYA co-ordinator, Socrates/Erasmus co-ordinator, Melbourne Exchange co-ordinator, US Exchange Scheme co-ordinator.
PhD Supervision and Examining
Completed PhDs (listed only those first supervised by me)
1. Dr. Philipp Katsinas Thessaloniki: The poster child of austerity urbanism, funded by A.G. Leventis Foundation, FT 2012-2016. PhD awarded 2017.
2. Dr. Jason Luger Creative Singapore, paradoxes and possibilities: the geographies of cultural activism in an authoritarian city-state, funded by KCL-NUS studentship, FT 2011-2015. PhD awarded 2016. Currently, assistant professor in urban studies San Francisco State University.
3. Dr. Viktoria Vona The role of art and artists in contesting gentrification in London and New York City, funded by 1+3 ESRC studentship, FT 2009-2015. PhD awarded 2016.
4. Dr. Elanor Warwick Defensible space as a mobile concept: the role of transfer mechanisms and evidence in housing research, policy and practice, funded by CABE, PT 2006-2014. PhD awarded 2015. Currently, head research Clarion Housing Group.
5. Dr. Juliet Kahne Gentrification in the exceptional city: the case of Silverlake in Los Angeles, funded by KCL (part fees only, SSPP) FT/PT 2009-2013. PhD awarded 2014. Working for Place Makers in New York City.
6. Dr. David Craggs Skyscraper London in a period of boom and bust, funded by SSPP Studentship, FT 2008-2012. (co-supervised with Tim Butler). PhD awarded 2013.
7. Dr. Eduardo Ascensao The lived experience of the architecture of shanty town dwellingsin Lisbon, Portugal, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (Ministry of Science and Technology). PhD awarded 2011. Currently Research Fellow, University of Lisbon, Portugal. (Awarded Bengt Turner Award for paper from his PhD).
8. Dr. Alan Mace London’s Inter-War Suburbs: Towards a Renaissance, funded by the University of Westminster (co-supervised with Tim Butler). PhD awarded 2010. Currently, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography LSE.
9. Dr. Richard Baxter High Rise Living in London: Towards an Urban Renaissance?, funded by ESRC-ODPM studentship, PhD awarded 2008. Postdoctoral Leverhulme Fellow in Geography, QMUL, now Lecturer Birkbeck, University of London.
10. Dr. Nina Brown Young People, Place and Urban Regeneration: the Case of the King’s Cross Ten Estates, London, funded by ESRC-CASE studentship in collaboration with the Peabody Trust, PhD awarded 2008. Until recently Research Assistant, University of Chicago.
11. Dr. Jennie Middleton The ‘Walkable City’: The Dimensions of Walking and Overlapping Walks of Life, funded by ESRC-CASE studentship in collaboration with Arup Transport Planning, PhD awarded 2008. Currently Senior Research Fellow, Oxford University.
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12. Dr. Scott Rodgers New Geographies of the Metropolitan Newspaper: Exploring Spaces of Urban Political Journalism at the Toronto Star, funded by ORS, University of London Britt Studentship in the Social Sciences, and SSPP Studentship. PhD awarded 2007. Currently Lecturer in Media Studies, Birkbeck University.
13. Dr. Gavin Brown The Production of Gay, Post-gay and Queer Space in East London, funded by SSPP Studentship, PhD awarded 2007. Currently Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, Leicester University.
14. Dr. Mark Davidson New-build Gentrification and London’s Riverside Renaissance, funded by SSSPP Studentship, PhD awarded 2006. Currently Associate Professor of Geography Clark University, USA.
15. Dr. Tom Slater The Geography of the Gentrifying ‘North American’ neighbourhood: A comparison of South Parkdale, Toronto, Canada, and Lower Park Slope, New York City, USA, funded by The Leverhulme Trust, PhD awarded 2003. Currently Reader in Geography, University of Edinburgh. (Awarded Peter Walling Fellowship UBC during hisPhD).
Current PhDs
1. Tia Ndu Gentrification and race in Tottenham, FT 2017-present, ESRC Midlands Graduate School DTP Studentship.
2. Jess Steele Self-renovating neighbourhoods as an alternative to gentrification or decline, funded by College of Science and Engineering CASE studentship, Leicester University, PT 2015-present.
3. Clara Rivas Alonso Resisting gentrification in Istanbul, part funded by College of Science and Engineering studentship, Leicester University FT 2014-present.
4. Nastassia Barnes Historic preservation in a segregated Black district: the case of Holden-Parramore, Florida, USA, part funded by College of Science and Engineering studentship FT 2014-present.
Supervision of Visiting PhDs
1. 2016 Dicle Kizildere (Urban Studies, Gran Sasso Science Institute), Islamic gentrification in Istanbul funded by Italian research council.
2. 2010-2011 Julia Binder (Sociology, Humboldt University), Comparative urbanism: Berlin and Bogota, funded by DAAD.
3. 2007-2008 Patrick Rerat (University of Neuchatel), New build gentrification in Switzerland, funded by Swiss government.
4. 2006-2007 Kazuaki Sugiyama (Osaka University), The geography of youth and public space in Japan, funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
Examining of PhD/MPhil theses
1. 2017 PhD thesis: ‘Spatial justice: towards a values-led framework of regeneration outcomes in UK planning (Anglia Ruskin University). External.
2. 2017 PhD thesis: ‘Gentrification in the central zone of Medina’ (University of Leicester). Internal.
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3. 2015 PhD thesis: ‘Urban attractiveness and competitive policies in Oslo and Marseille: the waterfront as object of restructuring, culture-led redevelopment and negotiation processes’, (University of Oslo). I was First Opponent.
4. 2015 PhD thesis: ‘HafenCitizens: life and politics in Hamburg’s new neighbourhood under construction’ (University of Edinburgh). External.
5. 2015 PhD Upgrade: ‘Always Different Always the Same: Conflicting Claims to Authenticity in Brixton’, (University College London). External.
6. 2012 PhD thesis: ‘A History of SPACE: what artists and arts organizations do in the culture and economies of cities’ (Birkbeck, London). External.
7. 2011 MPhil thesis: ‘Suburban materialities, affect, and haunting the everyday: a case study of a Bristol new-build (University of Bristol). External.
8. 2010 PhD thesis: ‘Changing places: a question of character’ (University of Melbourne). External.
9. 2005 PhD thesis: ‘”Actually existing neoliberalism”’ and the production and consumption of new retail environments: the case of Buchanan Galleries Shopping Centre in Glasgow’ (Strathclyde University). External.
10. 2004 PhD thesis: ‘Constructing and Unsettling Utopia: The Hundertwasser-Haus, Viennaand Nant-y-Cwm Steiner School, Pembrokeshire’ (University of Wales, Swansea). External.
11. 2002 PhD upgrade: ‘Dyeing Cities: culture, space and deindustrialisation in London and Mumbai’ (University College London). UoL Internal.
12. 2000 PhD thesis: ‘Local Government Change and the Production and Consumption of Leisure Space in the Surrey Docks Peninsula 1979-1997’ (Queen Mary and Westfield College). UoL internal.
Masters Teaching, Supervision and Internal/External Examining
At University of Leicester
Leicester Urban Summer School (with Prof. Simon Gunn in Urban History) (2017) (50%)
Research Methods in Human Geography (2013-18) (80%)
At King’s College London (1997-2013):Gentrification and the Creative Class (100%) [core course for MA/MSc Creative Cities)Urban Studies Internship (100%)Gentrification and Urban Regeneration (50%)Conceptualizing the City (100%) [core course for all Cities masters degrees] (Re)presenting the City (100% )Research Methods and Information Management (25%)
University of Waikato (1994-95)Contemporary Geographic Thought (50%)
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Masters Dissertations supervision/examining2013-: I supervise 3-5 masters dissertations a year at Leicester. 1998-2013 I 6-10 masters dissertations a year on urban themes at KCL.
Masters fieldtripsAt KCL I ran fieldtrips to Barcelona, Berlin and in London for cities masters students.
External Examiner Taught Masters2003-2006 Social Theoretical Foundations of Geography and Social Studies - ED66D, University of West Indies, Jamaica.
External Examiner Masters Dissertations 2001 University of East London.
Undergraduate Teaching, Supervision and Internal/External Examining
Invited as expert to teach on:
Sustainable London, expert lecture, Prince's Foundation - MSc in Sustainable Urban Development - with Oxford University, London (April 2016)
The regeneration of Elephant and Castle fieldtrip, London by Professor Mark Stephens, Institute for Social Policy, Housing, Environment and Real Estate (I-SPHERE), School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society, Heriot-Watt University (Feb 2016)
Gentrification in London, expert lecture, Prince's Foundation - MSc in Sustainable Urban Development - with Oxford University, London (Nov 2015)
At University of Leicester
2nd Yr: Workplace Geographies (20%) (2013-2017)
2nd Yr: Space and Culture (50%) (2013-)
At King’s College London:
1st Yr: London’s Geographies (5%)2nd Yr: Human Geography: Space, Society and Culture (100%) [core course for human geography stream in undergraduate geography programme]3rd Yr: Cultural Landscapes – North American Style (100%)3rd Yr: Directed Readings (100%)2nd Yr: Urban Social Inequality (50%)2nd Yr: Space, Society and Culture: thematic issues (100%) 2nd Yr: Landscape, Space and Place (100%)2nd Yr: Space, Society and Culture (33%) (Co-taught with LSE)3rd Yr: Gendered Spaces and the City (100%)
University of Waikato1st Yr: People and Places: an introduction to human geography (33%)2nd Yr: Making Places: the urban industrial transformation of space (50%)2nd Yr: Gendering Space (25%)
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3rd Yr: Advanced Urban and Regional Studies (40%)
Undergraduate Dissertation SupervisionI supervise 8-10 undergraduate dissertations a year at Leicester. I supervised 6-8 undergraduate dissertations every year at KCL 1997-2013.
Undergraduate Tutorials and Field trips(2013-) I have run undergraduate fieldtrips in London and Leicester.(1997-2013) I undertook undergraduate tutorials every year at KCL and fieldtrips in London and Alicante, Spain.
Contribution to External Undergraduate Degrees
2008 – 2017 University of London External Degree Programme, chief examiner for Space and Culture.
1997 – 2005 University of London International Programmes, EMFSS Programmes. I was the chief examiner for the following courses: Urban Geography; Historical Geography II: Canada and the United States; Space, Society and Culture; Canada and the United States.
External Examiner Undergraduate Programmes
2017 External Assessor, Faculty Periodic Review Panel, Environmental and Geographical Sciences undergraduate programme, Manchester Metropolitan University.
2012-2016 External Examiner, Department of Geography, Open University, undergraduate programme ‘Living in a globalised world’.
2010-2013 External Examiner, Department of Geography, University of Leicester, human geography undergraduate programme.
1994 External Assessor undergraduate programme, Department of Geography, Canterbury University, New Zealand.
Teaching Related Publications 1. LEES,L. (2007) Space and Culture, London: University of London External Degree
Programme.
2. LEES,L. (2002) Space, Society and Culture, London: University of London External Degree Programme. 86 pages.
3. LEES,L. (2001) Geography of the USA and Canada, London: University of London External Degree Programme. 84 pages.
ACADEMIC TRAININGLUCRE costing training (Leicester)Equality and diversity training (Leicester)Senior leadership course (Leicester)Research ethics training (Leicester)Tutorial teaching (KCL)Dealing with the media (KCL)Lecturing (KCL)
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CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
A. Conference/Seminar organizer
2017 Launch of ESRC Project Gentrification, Displacement, and the Impacts of Council Estate Renewal in C21st London and discussion of London Mayor’s Good Practice Guide to Estate Regeneration, Cambridge House, London.2016 An anti-gentrification toolkit for Southern European cities workshop, Roma Tre
University, Rome, Italy (with Sandra Annunziata).2016 Institute of British Geographers Conference, London, UK, Nexus thinking in
gentrification studies (with Martin Phillips)2016 Can we afford to lose council housing?, Cambridge House, London.2013 Developing Alternatives for Communities facing gentrification and displacement, KCL
(with London Tenants Federation, SNAG and Just Space)2011 Youth, the City and Neoliberal Globalisation Symposium (with Sharon Gewirtz, KCL
and Tom Pedroni, Oakland University, Detroit) 2011-12 Urban Studies Seminar - Gentrification in the Global South (with Hyun Shin and
Ernesto Lopez)2010-11 DAAD Seminar – Comparative urbanism: London and Berlin (with Tim Butler,
Talja Blokland and Isle Helbrecht)2007 ESRC seminar on Gentrification and Social Mixing (with Tim Butler, Gary Bridge and
Tom Slater).2003 Institute of British Geographers Conference, London, UK. I organised a series of
London based fieldtrips - Loftliving: Clerkenwell and Shoreditch; Modernity: mansion flats in North Kensington; Artists in the City; The Everyday Militarization of the City: Security and Surveillance in London’s financial heartlands.
2002 UGRG First Urban Geography Post-graduate Conference, Reading University. Theme: The Urban in Urban Geography.
B. Session Organizer
2016 Gentrification and nexus thinking, Institute of British Geographers Conference, London, UK (co-organizer and chair)
2016 Relational approaches to gentrification, Association of American Geographers Conference, San Francisco, USA (co-organizer)
2012 The Urban Built Environment: Secured by Design? Institute of British Geographers Conference, Edinburgh, UK (co-organizer and chair)
2007 Gentrification and public policy, Association of American Geographers Conference, San Francisco, USA (co-organizer and chair)
2003 Geographical Expeditions in the City, Institute of British Geographers Conference, London, UK (co-organizer and chair)
2003 Changing Urban Geographies: perspectives on Anglo-American urban research, Association of American Geographers Conference, New Orleans, USA (co-organizer and chair)
2002 Gender, the City and Everyday Life, Institute of British Geographers Conference, Belfast, UK (co-organizer, chair and discussant)
2000 Urban Geography at the Millennium, Institute of British Geographers Conference, Brighton, UK (organizer and chair)
1999 The Emancipatory City?, Association of American Geographers Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii (organizer and chair)
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1998 Urban Quality of Life, Institute of British Geographers Conference, Kingston, U.K. (organizer and chair)
1996 Canadian Geographies: Culture and Identity, Association of American Geographers Conference, Charlotte, NC, U.S.A. (co-organizer and chair)
SEMINAR/CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
A. Invited research seminars (listed - only those I agreed to do)
2017 Resisting Global Gentrifications: the value of survivability, CURB (Centre for Urban
Research) York University.
2013 Gentrification and Post-colonial Theory, Department of Geography, University of
Nottingham.
2008 New build Gentrification along the Thames, The Bartlett School, University College
London.
2006 Gentrification and Social Mixing, Department of Geography, Aberystwyth University.
2006 The geography and sociology of social mixing, Department of Geography, Oxford
University.2003 Super-gentrification: the case of Brooklyn Heights, New York City, Department of
Geography, London School of Economics.
2001 The Politics of New Urban Spaces in Portland, Maine, USA, Department of Geography,University of Reading, UK.
2000 The Emancipatory City? Department of Geography, Loughborough University, UK.
1999 Youth and Urban Public Space? Department of Geography, University of Birmingham, UK.
1999 The Marginalization and Control of Youth in Urban Public Space: a case study of Portland, Maine, Department of Education, King’s College London.
1996 Postmodern Space and Vancouver’s New Public Library, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Canada.
1994 New Approaches in Urban Social Geography, Department of Geography, University of Victoria, New Zealand.
1994 Urban Social Geography in the 1990s, Department of Geography, Massey University, New Zealand.
1994 The Development of a Specialization in Urban Social Geography, Department of Geography, University of Waikato, New Zealand.
B. Conference papers
2017 (Re)conceptualising gentrification induced displacement for a C21st gentrification studies, Nordic Geography Conference, Stockholm, Sweden.
2013 State-led gentrification and displacement in C21st London: collating evidence from the Aylesbury Estate (presented by Gavin McLaughlin), RC21 Conference, Berlin, Germany.
2013 Global gentrification and comparative urbanism (presented by Hyun Shin and Ernesto Lopez), Association of American Geographers Conference, Los Angeles, USA.
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2012 The route to defensible space? Residential security and design - controlled experiment or participatory trial and error?, Institute of British Geographers Conference, Edinburgh, U.K.
2010 The challenges in developing a methodology that can measure social capital in socially mixed (gentrified) inner city neighbourhoods, Association of American Geographers Conference, Washington DC, USA.
2010 Defensible space on the move: Revisiting the urban geography of Alice Coleman,
Institute of British Geographers Conference, London, U.K.
2007 Gentrification and social mixing: towards an inclusive urban renaissance, Association ofAmerican Geographers Conference, San Francisco, USA.
2007 High-rise living in London: towards an urban renaissance? Institute of British Geographers Conference, London, UK.
2006 Super-gentrification in Barnsbury, London: globalization and gentrifying global elites atthe neighbourhood level Institute of British Geographers Conference, London, UK.
2003 Association of American Geographers Conference, New Orleans
2003 Institute of British Geographers Conference
2000 Spaces of Democracy: downtown public space and youth, Institute of British Geographers Conference, Brighton, UK.
1999 The Emancipatory City - any space for youth?, Association of American Geographers Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
1998 Urban Densification and the Politics of Livability in Vancouver, Canada, Institute of British Geographers Conference, Kingston, U.K.
1996 Interfacing Sim City and Sin City in the Imaging of Vancouver, Association of American Geographers Conference, Charlotte, NC, U.S.A.
1996 Ageographia, Heterotopia, and Vancouver's New Public Library, Institute of British Geographers Conference, Glasgow, U.K.
1994 A Comparison and Insight into Images of Gentrification in London and New York, Institute of British Geographers Conference, Nottingham, U.K.
1993 Gentrification and Junk Bonds: The Case of New York City, Urban Change and ConflictConference, Sheffield, U.K. 1993 Social Landscape Change: Advocating a Pluralistic Methodology, Association of American Geographers Conference, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
1992 Gentrification and Applied Theory: A Comparative Perspective, Institute of British Geographers Conference, Swansea, U.K.
1991 Pluralistic Methodology in the Juxtaposition of a Marxist and a Postmodernist Framework for the Study of Gentrification in London and New York, Scottish Post-graduate Conference, Glasgow, U.K.
1989 The Gentrification Frontier: A Study of the Lower East Side area of Manhattan, New York City, Annual Irish Geographical Congress, Dublin, Ireland.
C. Invited to be a discussant (listed - only those I agreed to do)2016 Reframing the Housing Question as Crisis, RGS-IBG, UK.
2010 Right to the City: changing urban social dynamics in globalizing China, organized by Guo Chen and Shenjing He, Association of American Geographers Conference, San Francisco, USA
2003 Spatiality, Discourse, and Urban Life, organized by Jennifer Speights-Binet and EugeneMcCann, Association of American Geographers Conference, New Orleans, USA.
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2001 The New Urban Frontier, organized by Mike Raco and Gordon Macleod, Institute of British Geographers Conference, Plymouth, UK.
1994 Feminist Geography Workshop, Pirongia Forest Park Lodge, New Zealand.
IMPACT WORK BEYOND THE ACADEMYMay 2017 Housing Justice Databasing workshop, Amnesty Human Rights Action Centre, London.April 2017 Haringey Scrutiny panel on HDV (https://www.minutes.haringey.gov.uk/documents/s94119/2e%20Evidence%20from%20Loretta%20Lees.pdf) (https://www.minutes.haringey.gov.uk/documents/s94608/HDV%20Scrutiny%20Report%20-%20Final%20Version_1.pdf)February 2017, Launch event for ESRC grant and roundtable on estate regeneration guidance,Cambridge House.February 2017, Estate regeneration guidance meeting, GLA, invited by Sian Berry to chair the meeting.May 2015, Expert witness, Public Inquiry into the Aylesbury Estate CPO, conducted by
government Inspector Leslie Coffey, held in Arry’s Bar at Millwall Football ground.
17th March 2015, Invited talk on the state-led gentrification of council estates in London, Tottenham Labour Party, Beehive Pub, Tottenham,
11th October 2014, TEDXBrixton, Evelyn Grace Academy, Brixton, London (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMz1x5_yF2Q)
February 2013, Expert witness, Public Inquiry into the Heygate Estate CPO, conducted by government Inspector Wendy Fabian, held in Southwark council headquarters, London Bridge.
2012 International Exhibition on Gentrification, Gothenberg City Museum, Sweden.
2011 interviewed by Catharina Thorn, University of Gothenberg, ‘a walk along interview on gentrification in Islington’ for an international exhibition on gentrification at Gothenberg City Museum.
DOCUMENTARIES
Currently filming housing documentary with Marcus Relton and Adele Morris.
2017 A day in the UK, documentary film, ARTE. Caroline Hocquard.
MEDIA COVERAGE/INTERVIEWS
Invited BlogsFebruary 2017 DRAN MIT (http://mitdisplacement.org/symposium-loretta-lees/)February 2017 CITY (http://www.city-analysis.net/2017/02/10/philipp-katsinas-reviews-anti-
gentrification-workshop-staying-put/)
February 2015 Queen for a Day, 24Housing: the magazine for housing professionals.
20th Feb 2015, An urban geographer’s journey through the changing landscape of gentrification , Policy Press, Bristol (https://policypress.wordpress.com/tag/loretta-lees/)
11th Nov 2013, Notting Hill and its streets of changing fortune, Notting Hill Housing 50th anniversary (http://www.nhh50.com/?post_type=places&nopaging=1)
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On urban renaissance under New Labour: book chapter hosted by a Manchester not-for-profitart and design cooperative called UHC. http://www.opencity.org.uk
Television appearancesApril 2017 Renegade Inc TV Gentrification, half hour show on Russia Today.
http://www.housepricecrash.co.uk/forum/index.php?/topic/229987-gentrification-renegade-inc-russia-today/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2EAj0ymdK0&utm_content=bufferaefaf&utm_medium=social&utm_source=plus.google.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Interviewed for and appeared on CBC National News, 2 Oct 2015, on anti-gentrification riots on Brick lane, London (http://www.cbc.ca/news/thenational/hipster-haters-crash-cereal-cafe-1.3255706)
Interviewed for and appeared on BBC Newsnight, 13 Feb 2015, on Art-led regeneration.
7th August 2014, BBC World News, tv interview by Rajesh Mirchandani on feature ‘Washington DC from murder capital to boomtown’ in relation to gentrification in London.
October 19th 2012 phone interview about sink estates on The Paul Ross and Gaby Roslin Breakfast Show BBC London 94.9.
October 19th 2012 ‘London’s new housing loses the ‘dirty word’, interviewed by Josephine McDermott, BBC News London http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-19897790.
Radio appearancesOctober 2016 BBC Radio 4 Analysis, interviewed in Gentrification: can the process be controlled? (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07x2xlj)June 2016 BBC Radio 4 You and Yours, interviewed on: What is super-gentrification?
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03yjq91)
December 2015 Interviewed by Tom Bateman and Anna Meisel BBC Radio 4 Today programme The price of the knock down (soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/user46375590/bbc-radio4)
Radio Show The Terry Project on CiTR (Vancouver, Canada) On social mixing and gentrification in Vancouver.
March 2014, radio show Resonance on art led regeneration https://soundcloud.com/resonance-fm/14-30-00-the-news-agents-7
June 2012, interviewed by BBC journalist Stephanie Hegarty for radio show on NTSLive on the future of social housing in London focusing on the Heygate and Aylesbury Estates (http://ntslive.co.uk/?p=8402).
1998 interviewed on a Portland, Maine radio station - WMPG about my research on urban public space in downtown Portland, the Portland Press Herald also wrote a feature on the research.
Newspaper, magazine coverage
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July 2017 Interviewed in Time Magazine, Causes and effects of the Grenfell Tower inferno, p.12.
June 2017 Interview in commentary in BMJ, High rise living after Grenfell.
June 2017 Interviewed in The Guardian, I grew up in a London council block – it was a wonderful place to call home (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/19/grew-up-london-council-block-wonderful-place-call-home)
June 2017 Interviewed in The Times, Deregulation and trend for cladding raised risk of fire, p.12.
March 2017 Interviewed in City can learn from errors in regeneration, Leicester Mercury.
March 2017 Interview in Southwark accused of dirty tactics: London residents prep for final showdown, Arab Times, p.12.January 2017 Featured in Pendleton Together Salford gentrification slammed by IUD project The Salford Star, http://salfordstar.com/article.asp?id=3651
December 2016 Interviewed in Modernist dream, dystopian nightmare the ups and downs of tower blocks, The Independent (http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/architecture/ups-and-downs-of-tower-blocks-a7463986.html)
November 2016 Interviewed in Anti-gentrification law—could it work in the UK?LexisNexis (https://www.lexisnexis.com/uk/lexispsl/planning/document/412012/5M31-CTJ1-DYW7-W334-00000-00/Anti_gentrification_law_could_it_work_in_the_UK_)
September 2016 Interviewed in The Architect’s Journal, Aylesbury Estate CPO Ruling: what went wrong? (https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/aylesbury-estate-cpo-ruling-what-went-wrong/10012171.article)
July 2016 Well, who needs council housing anyway; results of project with CH featured in Housing (http://www.housingexcellence.co.uk/features/well-who-needs-council-housing-anyway)
June 2016 Interviewed by Kashmira Gander Artisan cafés and luxury flats: How bad can gentrification really be? The Independent (http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/artisan-caf-s-and-luxury-flats-how-bad-can-gentrification-really-be-heygate-estate-london-new-york-a7060121.html)
April 2016 Interview on the role and place of geography in the world today, published in Chinese Social Sciences Today (the academic newspaper of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) in Chinese.
January 2016 Cameron’s sink estate strategy comes at a cost, The Conversation (https://theconversation.com/camerons-sink-estate-strategy-comes-at-a-human-cost-53358)
December 2015 Interview by Tom Bateman and Anna Meisel Today programme The price of the knock down (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35124545)
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October 2015 Interview in The Guardian (http://www.theguardian.com/small-business-network/2015/oct/02/gentrification-business-cereal-cafe-shoreditch?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other)
August 2015 Interview in The Observer (http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/09/blair-corbyn-islington-north-london-labour)
May 2015 Interview in The Economist (http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21650603-regeneration-forcing-working-class-out-central-london-unreal-estate)
April 2015 Interview in Architects Journal, Brownfield first, tenants last (http://m.architectsjournal.co.uk/8681633.article)
April 28th 2015 Interview by CNN in Vacant homes and the super rich: How property becameLondon's battleground (http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/28/europe/london-property-uk-election/)
27 August 2014 Social cleansing – the fightback, The Londonist (londonist.com/…/social-cleansing-and-gentrification)
14 August 2014 Interview Hipsternomics: is the creative class ruining urban communities? CNN news webpage (edition.cnn.com/2014/08/14/business)
29 June 2013 "No evidence" that Elephant regeneration will work, says academic (http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/6932)
2013, interview by the LaFarge Group on mixed-income housing (social mixity) and its challenges and solutions, published as Alternative building solutions to help increase social diversity on www.lafarge.com under Urban insights articles.
November 2013 Interview on Hamburg and the Right to the City, in ZEIT Wissen magazine (published bimonthly by the weekly DIE ZEIT ( www.zeit.de/zeit-wissen)
10 October 2013 Interview BBC News webpage - Council offers tenants up to £38,000 to buy privately (www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london)
25 August 2013, Interview on Skyscraper London in the Norwegian Aftenposten newspaper.
29 August 2013 Invited piece for The Guardian - Regeneration in London has pushed poor families out, http://www.theguardian.com/local-government-network/2013/aug/29/mixed-communities-plan-government-regeneration.
August 29th 2013 Comment - The Guardian, http://www.theguardian.com/local-government-network/2013/aug/29/mixed-communities-plan-government-regeneration
September 2012 ‘Group calls for social housing plan’, The Irish Times, Thursday September20th(www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/property/2012).
June 2012 ‘Is this the UK’s most gentrified street?’, interviewed by Keith Moore, BBC NewsMagazine (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18394017).
July 2011 interviewed by Oliver Bennett in The Independent – ‘Galleries and festivals are reinvigorating our coastline: but do they bring lasting renewal?’
March 2011 The HafenCity Times –interviewed on the HafenCity development in Hamburg:‘A 21st century test case for planned urbanity’.
2010 cited in The Economist ‘A tale of two constituencies: why the election fight in Islington South matters’, March 18th.
2010 Der Hamburger Abendblatt, my BDA lecture commented on with the headline: ‘The Obligation for a socially just City’.
Lees CV, p. 31 of 31
August 2009 interviewed by Sarah Hampson in The Globe and Mail – ‘They need to keep People Like You out of the hood’.
Based on interview on super-gentrification in Barnsbury at the RGS-IBG Conference in September 2006:
The Times 1st September 2007, p.26: There’s plain gentrification and then you have Islington
The Daily Telegraph 1st September 2007, p.3: Britain’s ‘masters of the universe’ set up their own little world in Blair’s back yard. (also covered in The Guardian, Evening Standard, The Metro and the Islington Gazette; subsequently interviewed in the South China Morning Post too).
On new-build gentrification: The Evening Standard property section, November 1st, p.4-5, interviewed by David Spittles and quoted in article titled: ‘A world apart’.
On de-gentrification: The Daily Telegraph, interviewed by Oliver Bennett and quoted in an article on de-gentrification titled ‘Going Down in the World’, Saturday, May 6th, 2006, Property and International Section, pp. 1-2.
