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3357
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573

Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Chris Hamnett is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their research is situated primarily within the domain of social sciences, with a focus on urban studies, political science, and sociology. The subfields they contribute to include Urban Studies, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics, and Finance.

The scientist's main topics of research cover a range of urban and socioeconomic issues:

  • Urban Planning and Governance
  • China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance
  • Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
  • Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
  • Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics
  • Cultural Industries and Urban Development
  • Chinese history and philosophy

Chris Hamnett has published extensively in several journals, with notable recurring publication venues including:

  • Urban Studies
  • Transactions in Planning and Urban Research
  • Urban Geography
  • Land Use Policy
  • Cities

Recent papers authored by Chris Hamnett include:

  • "Is Chinese urbanisation unique?", 2020, Urban Studies
  • "The changing social structure of global cities: Professionalisation, proletarianisation or polarisation", 2020, Urban Studies
  • "The changing social class structure of London, 2001-2021: Continued professionalisation or asymmetric polarisation?", 2024, Urban Studies
  • "Veni, vidi, gentri? - Social class change in London and Paris: gentrification cause or consequence?", 2021, Urban Geography

Collaborations are part of their work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Yang Yu
  • Yumin Ye
  • Wenwen Guo
  • Bo Qin
  • Lizheng Zhang

Chris Hamnett has been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • The Blind Men and the Elephant: The Explanation of Gentrification

    Chris Hamnett

  • Social Polarisation in Global Cities: Theory and Evidence:

    Chris Hamnett

  • Gentrification and the Middle-class Remaking of Inner London, 1961-2001:

    Chris Hamnett

  • Unequal City: London in the Global Arena

    Chris Hamnett

  • Shrinking the State: The Political Underpinnings of Privatization

    Harvey B. Feigenbaum;Jeffrey R. Henig;Chris Hamnett

  • Social Polarisation, Economic Restructuring and Welfare State Regimes:

    Chris Hamnett

  • Geography Matters!: A Reader

    James Anderson;Susan Cunningham;Christopher Hamnett;Philip Sarre

  • The Geography of Education: Introduction:

    Tim Butler;Chris Hamnett

  • Loft Conversion and Gentrification in London: From Industrial to Postindustrial Land Use

    Chris Hamnett;Drew Whitelegg

  • Gentrification and the middle-class remaking of Inner London

    Chris Hamnett

  • Social Change in London: A Study of Gentrification

    Chris Hamnett;Peter Williams

  • Ethnicity, class and aspiration: Understanding London's new East End

    Tim Butler;Christopher Hamnett

  • Gentrification, Postindustrialism, and Industrial and Occupational Restructuring in Global Cities

    Chris Hamnett

  • Social segregation and social polarization

    Chris Hamnett

  • Inward and Upward: Marking Out Social Class Change in London, 1981—2001

    Tim Butler;Chris Hamnett;Mark Ramsden

  • Housing the Two Nations: Socio-Tenurial Polarization in England and Wales, 1961-81:

    Chris Hamnett

  • Contemporary human geography: fiddling while Rome burns?

    Chris Hamnett

  • Museums as Flagships of Urban Development

    Chris Hamnett;Noam Shoval

  • Shrinking the welfare state: the structure, geography and impact of British government benefit cuts

    Chris Hamnett

  • Cities, Housing and Profits: Flat Break-Up and the Decline of Private Renting

    Chris Hamnett;Bill Randolph

  • Shrinking the State

    Harvey Feigenbaum;Jeffrey Henig;Chris Hamnett

Frequent Co-Authors

Linda McDowell
Linda McDowell University of Oxford
Doreen Massey
Doreen Massey The Open University
Peter J. Taylor
Peter J. Taylor Northumbria University
Jacquelin Burgess
Jacquelin Burgess University of East Anglia
John Eyles
John Eyles University of the Witwatersrand
Robert J. Bennett
Robert J. Bennett University of Cambridge
Andy C. Pratt
Andy C. Pratt City, University of London
Susan J. Smith
Susan J. Smith University of Cambridge

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