Metropolitan Policy Center’s Annual Spring Lecture featuring 

Dr. Loretta Lees 

Planetary Gentrification: Its Impacts and Futures in a Post-Pandemic World

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Thursday, March 17, 2022, 4:00PM - 5:00PM (ET)

A live streamed event. Advance registration required. 

Gentrification has long been a controversial and much debated process. The recent global turn in gentrification studies has asked new questions of it. Global or local the trajectories of gentrification are dynamic, they continue to grow and change, triggering new debate and reevaluation. The impacts of gentrification, however, remain overwhelmingly negative. As we transition out of a global pandemic, what kinds of ‘new’ gentrifications are emerging, why, and what are the likely impacts?

 

Professor Loretta Lees is an urban geographer internationally known for her cutting-edge research on gentrification, urban policy, and urban social theory. She was identified as the 17th most cited author in urban geography, and the only woman in the top 20. She is the author or editor of 11 books, with 4 forthcoming in 2022, including Defensible Space: Mobilisation in English Housing Policy and Practice, plus numerous journal articles, book chapters, and other writing. She is the 2022 recipient of the Marilyn J. Gittell Activist Scholar Award from the Urban Affairs Association and has given over 70 keynote addresses worldwide. Dr. Lees is the incoming (July 2022) Director of the Initiative on Cities at Boston University in the US. She has been a Professor of Human Geography (2013-2022) at the University of Leicester and before that King’s College London (1997-2013) in the UK. She is the current Chair of the London Housing Panel working with the Mayor of London and Trust for London on housing policy in the capital. Since 2009, she has co-organized The Urban Salon, a London forum on cities and international urbanism.