Cities Group
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PhD students in the Cities Group include:
Eduardo Ascensao
Informal urbanization in a post-colonial context – the lived experience of the architecture of shanty town dwellings in Lisbon, Portugal
Youngsook Choi
Surveillance as a Performative Space: Mystification and Transformation of Spatial Narratives in Surveillance regimes
David Craggs
Re-Imaging London: global city planning and skyscraper development
Isabelle Dedieu
Political transfer in urban policies
Grace Fayad-Collins
Integrated water resources allocation and management - the case of Beirut, Lebanon.
Mariela Gaete Reyes
Disability and the mobility and movement of women wheelchair users
Rene Hohmann
A comparative analysis of urban area based policies in Britain and Germany
Rita Jacinto
Inclusive design, disability and sustainable communities
Cheng-Hsuan Kao
Mobility of Expertise, the Construction of Identity, Place Making: on the Case of the Regeneration of the Urban Villages in the PRD, China
Juliet Kahne
Gentfication limited: how Silver Lake in LA prevented post-pioneer gentrification of the neighborhood
Helen Milne
Negotiating urban space, migrant strategies and transport in London 1950 - present
Matthew Offord
Rural governance and social exclusion: the changing landscape of local government
Hiroko Okamoto
Globalisation, international skilled migration and social networks: research into the vertical and horizontal social networks created by Japanese skilled migrants to London
Sarah Pellegrin
Integrating urban design and peacekeeping principals for regenerating the urban environment following violent conflict
Raj Rana
Political Constructions: Thinking in Hard and Soft Architectures in the International System
Liat Racin
Ethnicity and Urban Agro-biodiversity: A Case Study Examining Black, Chinese and Jewish Community Gardening in New York City, U.S.A.
Robert Rayner
Building Olympic Legacy: a Bourdieusian approach to understanding East London’s new Olympic space
Emma Street
Planning for sustainable communities
Aaron Van Klyton
The social life of musicians: transnational spaces, performances, and identities of 'world music' performers
Carrie Van Lieshout
Water in London 1700-1850
Elanor Warwick
Defensible Space
Eduardo Ascensao
Informal urbanization in a post-colonial context – the lived experience of the architecture of shanty town dwellings in Lisbon, Portugal
Youngsook Choi
Surveillance as a Performative Space: Mystification and Transformation of Spatial Narratives in Surveillance regimes
David Craggs
Re-Imaging London: global city planning and skyscraper development
Isabelle Dedieu
Political transfer in urban policies
Grace Fayad-Collins
Integrated water resources allocation and management - the case of Beirut, Lebanon.
Mariela Gaete Reyes
Disability and the mobility and movement of women wheelchair users
Rene Hohmann
A comparative analysis of urban area based policies in Britain and Germany
Rita Jacinto
Inclusive design, disability and sustainable communities
Cheng-Hsuan Kao
Mobility of Expertise, the Construction of Identity, Place Making: on the Case of the Regeneration of the Urban Villages in the PRD, China
Juliet Kahne
Gentfication limited: how Silver Lake in LA prevented post-pioneer gentrification of the neighborhood
Helen Milne
Negotiating urban space, migrant strategies and transport in London 1950 - present
Matthew Offord
Rural governance and social exclusion: the changing landscape of local government
Hiroko Okamoto
Globalisation, international skilled migration and social networks: research into the vertical and horizontal social networks created by Japanese skilled migrants to London
Sarah Pellegrin
Integrating urban design and peacekeeping principals for regenerating the urban environment following violent conflict
Raj Rana
Political Constructions: Thinking in Hard and Soft Architectures in the International System
Liat Racin
Ethnicity and Urban Agro-biodiversity: A Case Study Examining Black, Chinese and Jewish Community Gardening in New York City, U.S.A.
Robert Rayner
Building Olympic Legacy: a Bourdieusian approach to understanding East London’s new Olympic space
Emma Street
Planning for sustainable communities
Aaron Van Klyton
The social life of musicians: transnational spaces, performances, and identities of 'world music' performers
Carrie Van Lieshout
Water in London 1700-1850
Elanor Warwick
Defensible Space
Recently completed
Richard Baxter
High rise living in London: towards an urban renaissance. (Completed 2007)
Gavin Brown
The production of gay, post-gay and queer space in East London. (Awarded 2007)
Currently Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Leicester
Ben Clifford
Planning at the Coalface: British Local Authority Planners and Planning Reform in an Age of Neoliberal Governance (Awarded 2009) Currently, lecturer, the Bartlett School of Planning, UCL
Mark Davidson
London Riverside: an inclusive urban renaissance? (Awarded 2006) Currently assistant professor of geography, Clark University
Gethin Edwards
Governing sustainable communities: urban development corporations and institutional capacities in the Thames Gateway. (Completed 2007)
Rebecca Finkel
The role of combined arts festivals in the UK cultural economy. (Awarded 2007) currently lecturer, Queen Margaret University
Laura Keogh
Heritage, regeneration and placemaking: Sustainable community building in the Thames Gateway (2009)
Priya Kissoon
Meanings of home and homelessness among refugees and asylum seekers in London and Toronto (Awarded 2007) currently post-doctoral fellow, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia
Emily Last
Disability and liveable environments: a comparative study of subnational governance
Llewellyn Leonard
Environmental justice in South Africa: The role of social movements in environmental waste governance (awarded 2009). currently post-doctoral fellow, Middlesex University
Wen-I Lin
Global urban renaissance and local geographical governmentality - London and Shanghai
Alan Mace
London’s Inter-War Suburbs: constructing a sense of place in a mega-city region (Completed 2010), currently lecturer in urban planning LSE
Lidija Mavra
The old and the new: ethnicity and identity of London's Serbs
Jennie Middleton
‘The Walkable City: the dimensions of walking and overlapping walks of life’ (Completed 2008) Currently lecturer in geography, Plymouth University
Kathleen Noreisch
Primary school segregation: a factor in the reproduction of urban social inequality. (Awarded 2007)
Scott Rodgers
Mediating 'the City' as political project: an exploration of news-making networks and practices in Toronto's print media. (Completed 2007)
Currently lecturer in media studies, Birkbeck.
Adriana Soaita
A comparative analysis of the nature and extent of housing problems and resident responses in two forms of Romanian urban housing
Inge Van Nieuwenhuyze
Urban labour market dynamics among recently arrived immigrants in Europe. A life-course approach to the mobility processes of West African immigrants in Antwerp and Barcelona. (Awarded 2007)
Stephanie Wyse
Gender, wealth and margins of Empire: Women's urban wealth networks, c1890 to 1950.
High rise living in London: towards an urban renaissance. (Completed 2007)
Gavin Brown
The production of gay, post-gay and queer space in East London. (Awarded 2007)
Currently Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Leicester
Ben Clifford
Planning at the Coalface: British Local Authority Planners and Planning Reform in an Age of Neoliberal Governance (Awarded 2009) Currently, lecturer, the Bartlett School of Planning, UCL
Mark Davidson
London Riverside: an inclusive urban renaissance? (Awarded 2006) Currently assistant professor of geography, Clark University
Gethin Edwards
Governing sustainable communities: urban development corporations and institutional capacities in the Thames Gateway. (Completed 2007)
Rebecca Finkel
The role of combined arts festivals in the UK cultural economy. (Awarded 2007) currently lecturer, Queen Margaret University
Laura Keogh
Heritage, regeneration and placemaking: Sustainable community building in the Thames Gateway (2009)
Priya Kissoon
Meanings of home and homelessness among refugees and asylum seekers in London and Toronto (Awarded 2007) currently post-doctoral fellow, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia
Emily Last
Disability and liveable environments: a comparative study of subnational governance
Llewellyn Leonard
Environmental justice in South Africa: The role of social movements in environmental waste governance (awarded 2009). currently post-doctoral fellow, Middlesex University
Wen-I Lin
Global urban renaissance and local geographical governmentality - London and Shanghai
Alan Mace
London’s Inter-War Suburbs: constructing a sense of place in a mega-city region (Completed 2010), currently lecturer in urban planning LSE
Lidija Mavra
The old and the new: ethnicity and identity of London's Serbs
Jennie Middleton
‘The Walkable City: the dimensions of walking and overlapping walks of life’ (Completed 2008) Currently lecturer in geography, Plymouth University
Kathleen Noreisch
Primary school segregation: a factor in the reproduction of urban social inequality. (Awarded 2007)
Scott Rodgers
Mediating 'the City' as political project: an exploration of news-making networks and practices in Toronto's print media. (Completed 2007)
Currently lecturer in media studies, Birkbeck.
Adriana Soaita
A comparative analysis of the nature and extent of housing problems and resident responses in two forms of Romanian urban housing
Inge Van Nieuwenhuyze
Urban labour market dynamics among recently arrived immigrants in Europe. A life-course approach to the mobility processes of West African immigrants in Antwerp and Barcelona. (Awarded 2007)
Stephanie Wyse
Gender, wealth and margins of Empire: Women's urban wealth networks, c1890 to 1950.
