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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
  • 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

Loretta Lees is affiliated with the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on various aspects of social sciences, with particular attention to urban studies, finance, sociology, political science, and health professions.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics related to urban planning and governance, housing, finance, and neoliberalism, as well as urbanization and city planning. Other notable topics in their research include the political and economic history of the UK and US, urban, neighborhood, and segregation studies, homelessness and social issues, and rural development and sustainability.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Loretta Lees include:

  • Phil Hubbard
  • Derek Hyra
  • Alison Mountz
  • Sharda Rozena
  • Pablo Martín Méndez

Their publications have appeared in several academic venues. These include:

  • Radical Housing Journal
  • Dialogues in Urban Research
  • Urban Geography
  • Housing Theory and Society
  • The Sociological Review

Selected recent papers by Loretta Lees comprise:

  • "So, Don't You Want Us Here No More?" Slow Violence, Frustrated Hope, and Racialized Struggle on London's Council Estates (2021), published in Housing Theory and Society
  • Beverley's Story (2021), published in City
  • Alpha City: How London Was Captured by the Super-Rich (2021), published in The AAG Review of Books

Other notable works related to the field of urban studies and housing include papers where Loretta Lees contributed as an author or coauthor.

The scientist has been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Gentrification and Social Mixing: Towards an Inclusive Urban Renaissance?

    Loretta Lees

  • New-build 'gentrification' and London's riverside renaissance

    Mark Davidson;Loretta Lees

  • A reappraisal of gentrification: towards a ‘geography of gentrification’

    Loretta Lees

  • Super-gentrification: The case of Brooklyn Heights, New York City

    Loretta Lees

  • Researching Human Geography

    Anna Davies;Keith Hoggart;Loretta Lees

  • The geography of gentrification: Thinking through comparative urbanism

    Loretta Lees

  • New‐build gentrification: its histories, trajectories, and critical geographies

    Mark Davidson;Loretta Lees

  • Super-gentrification in Barnsbury, London: globalization and gentrifying global elites at the neighbourhood level

    Tim Butler;Loretta Lees

  • The Gentrification Reader

    Loretta Lees;Tom Slater;Elvin Wyly

  • Moving beyond Marcuse: gentrification, displacement and the violence of un-homing

    Adam Elliott-Cooper;Phil Hubbard;Loretta Lees

  • Urban geography: discourse analysis and urban research

    Loretta Lees

  • Mixed Communities: Gentrification by Stealth?

    Gary Bridge;Gary Bridge;Tim Butler;Loretta Lees

  • Global gentrifications: uneven development and displacement

    Loretta Lees;Hyun Bang Shin;Ernesto López-Morales

  • Towards A Critical Geography of Architecture: The Case of an Ersatz Colosseum

    Loretta Lees

  • Visions of 'Urban Renaissance' the Urban Task FOrce Report and the Urban White Paper

    L Lees

  • Introduction to Special Issue on Gentrification and Public Policy

    Loretta Lees;David Ley

  • The urban injustices of New Labour’s ‘new urban renewal’: the case of the Aylesbury Estate in London

    Loretta Lees

  • Gentrification in New York, London and Paris: An International Comparison*

    Juliet Carpenter;Loretta Lees

  • Rematerializing geography: The ‘new’ urban geography:

    Loretta Lees

  • Spatial capital, gentrification and mobility: evidence from Swiss core cities

    Patrick Rérat;Loretta Lees

Frequent Co-Authors

Rob Imrie
Rob Imrie King's College London
Phil Hubbard
Phil Hubbard King's College London
Elvin Wyly
Elvin Wyly University of British Columbia
Mike Raco
Mike Raco University College London
David Demeritt
David Demeritt King's College London
David Ley
David Ley University of British Columbia
Kevin Ward
Kevin Ward University of Manchester
Liz Bondi
Liz Bondi University of Edinburgh

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