Seminars
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The Cities Group seminars feature the best of urban scholarship and provide a lively forum for the exchange of ideas about urban change and process. Scholars from a wide range of intellectual backgrounds make up the programme. The seminars are open to anyone with an interest in cities.The seminars take place on Thursdays, 17.00 to 18.00, in the Pyramid Room, 4th floor, South Range Building, KCL Department of Geography. The details of the autumn, 2009-10 programme are available below (in pdf format).
For further details of the seminar programme, contact the organisers, Katherine Jones and David Craggs
Archived Material: ESRC Seminar - Gentrification and Social Mixing
ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) Seminar: Gentrification and Social Mixing
'Social mix' has long been a planning/policy objective, and a sign of a healthy, liveable urban area, but the concept has recently come under fire from academics researching gentrification, especially for being too one-sided - it is mostly in low-income and/or working-class neighbourhoods where social mix is to be achieved through an influx of wealthier and/or middle-class residents.
Very rarely is social mix planned for wealthier neighbourhoods, which raises questions about the motivations and the politics behind the concept. Furthermore, what kind of social mixing actually takes place in gentrifying neighbourhoods? Despite a significant amount of research taking place that addresses these issues, there has been no organised debate or interaction between researchers and practitioners, this seminar series brought people together to discuss these issues in depth.
'Social mix' has long been a planning/policy objective, and a sign of a healthy, liveable urban area, but the concept has recently come under fire from academics researching gentrification, especially for being too one-sided - it is mostly in low-income and/or working-class neighbourhoods where social mix is to be achieved through an influx of wealthier and/or middle-class residents.
Very rarely is social mix planned for wealthier neighbourhoods, which raises questions about the motivations and the politics behind the concept. Furthermore, what kind of social mixing actually takes place in gentrifying neighbourhoods? Despite a significant amount of research taking place that addresses these issues, there has been no organised debate or interaction between researchers and practitioners, this seminar series brought people together to discuss these issues in depth.
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Cities Seminar Programme, Autumn term 2009
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› Cities Seminar Programme, Spring Term 2010 (pdf, 228 KB)