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Overview

Phil Hubbard is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom and specializes in social sciences with a focus on urban studies. Their research encompasses key topics including urban planning and governance, housing, finance and neoliberalism, urbanization and city planning, geographies of human-animal interactions, urban, neighborhood, and segregation studies, water governance and infrastructure, and homelessness and social issues.

Their recent papers include:

  • Animals and urban gentrification: Displacement and injustice in the trans-species city (2021), published in Progress in Human Geography
  • Housing: Shrinking homes, COVID-19 and the challenge of homeworking (2021), published in Town Planning Review

Phil Hubbard's frequent co-authors are:

  • Jonathan Reades
  • Loretta Lees
  • Alan M. Edwards
  • Andrew Brooks
  • Hendrik Walter

Their work appears regularly in publication venues such as:

  • Urban Studies
  • Manchester University Press eBooks
  • Environment and Planning A Economy and Space
  • Proceedings of the Water Environment Federation
  • Progress in Human Geography

The scholar has contributed to book publications, including a title published by Winchester University Press:

  • Borderland (2022)

Phil Hubbard's subfields of study highlight interdisciplinary engagement, including:

  • Urban Studies
  • Finance
  • Geography, Planning and Development
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Political Science and International Relations

Their academic work addresses a range of urban and social issues, from the dynamics of gentrification and displacement to the impact of socioeconomic policy on housing and neighborhood formations. Additionally, they explore the intersection of human and animal geographies within urban contexts, contributing to diversified perspectives on city planning and social infrastructure.

Best Publications

  • The entrepreneurial city: new urban politics, new urban geographies?:

    Tim Hall;Phil Hubbard

  • Key Thinkers on Space and Place

    Phil Hubbard;Rob Kitchin;Gill Valentine

  • People and Place: The Extraordinary Geographies of Everyday Life

    Lewis Holloway;Phil Hubbard

  • Thinking Geographically: Space, Theory and Contemporary Human Geography

    Phil Hubbard

  • The entrepreneurial city : geographies of politics, regime, and representation

    Tim Hall;Phil Hubbard

  • Sex Zones: Intimacy, Citizenship and Public Space:

    Phil Hubbard

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

    Adam Elliott-Cooper;Phil Hubbard;Loretta Lees

  • Therapy by design: evaluating the UK hospital building program.

    Wil Gesler;Morag Bell;Sarah Curtis;Phil Hubbard

  • Making Space for Sex Work: Female Street Prostitution and the Production of Urban Space

    Phil Hubbard;Teela Sanders

  • Urban Design and City Regeneration: Social Representations of Entrepreneurial Landscapes

    Phil Hubbard

  • Cleansing the Metropolis: Sex Work and the Politics of Zero Tolerance:

    Phil Hubbard

  • Sex and the City: Geographies of Prostitution in the Urban West

    Philip Hubbard

  • Geographies of education and the significance of children, youth and families

    Sarah L. Holloway;Philip Hubbard;Heike Jöns;Helena Pimlott-Wilson

  • Regulating the social impacts of studentification: A Loughborough case study

    Philip Hubbard

  • Geographies of Studentification and Purpose-Built Student Accommodation: Leading Separate Lives?:

    Philip Hubbard

  • Cities and Sexualities

    Philip Hubbard;Andrew Gorman-Murray;Catherine J Nash

  • Desire/disgust: mapping the moral contours of heterosexuality:

    Philip Hubbard

  • Walking across disciplines: from ethnography to arts practice

    Sarah Pink;Phil Hubbard;Maggie O'Neill;Alan Radley

  • Sexuality, Immorality and the City: Red-light districts and the marginalisation of female street prostitutes

    Phil Hubbard

  • Walking, sensing, belonging: ethno-mimesis as performative praxis

    Maggie O'Neill;Philip Hubbard

  • Getting away with it? Exposing the geographies of the super-rich

    Jonathan V Beaverstock;Philip Hubbard;John Rennie Short

Frequent Co-Authors

Loretta Lees
Loretta Lees University of Leicester
Rob Kitchin
Rob Kitchin National University of Ireland, Maynooth
John Rennie Short
John Rennie Short University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Sarah Curtis
Sarah Curtis Durham University
Gill Valentine
Gill Valentine University of Sheffield
Sarah L. Holloway
Sarah L. Holloway Loughborough University
Sarah Pink
Sarah Pink Monash University
Philippe Le Billon
Philippe Le Billon University of British Columbia
Andrew Gorman-Murray
Andrew Gorman-Murray Western Sydney University
Alan Radley
Alan Radley Loughborough University

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