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A five-minute preview of Professor Chris Hamnett's Monday night lecture at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) in London.

Chris explores the history and development of the ever-extending gentrification of London and asks if the poor are being squeezed out of the city.

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Monday night lecture: London's gentrification game. Professor Chris Hamnett

An interesting insight into the role maps have on understanding a sense of place.  Speaking to Dr Katie Parker at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) who explores ten maps of Ukraine from the 1800s to present day and reveals what they show and why.

Maps of Ukraine

An insightful podcast with Dr. Rachael Squire and Prof. Kim Peters from Royal Holloway University, London addressing people’s relationships with the ocean.  They explore our historic connections, how this can change, and the role aquariums have as a means to help us become more in tune with marine environments.

Seascapes with Royal Holloway University

In 1964, the Centre for Urban Studies at University College London (UCL), led by Ruth Glass, published the book 'London: Aspects of Change'. This brought together ten chapters by sociologists, geographers, planners, historians and health scientists to sketch a general social profile of a city that had undergone rapid contemporary change. The book today is perhaps best known for Ruth Glass’s coining, in her carefully crafted introduction, of the term ‘gentrification’, which has subsequently spawned an extensive and ever-growing field of urban research and debate.

This event held at UCL, fifty years later, reflects back on 'London: Aspects of Change' and explore how its arguments, details and rationale are still relevant to thinking about and exploring twenty-first-century London. The event investigates aspects of how London has changed – or not – over the half-century since the analyses and predictions were made in this book. Issues such as high-density housing, race relations, metropolitan governance, land values, transport access, and not least gentrification continue to play a major role in cross-disciplinary debates and discussions on London’s contemporary transformations and its future aspirations.

Welcome and Introduction from Ben Campkin (UCL Urban Lab)

Chair: Claire Colomb (UCL Bartlett School of Planning)

Phil Cohen (Birkbeck)

James Cheshire (UCL Geography)

Michael Hebbert (UCL Bartlett School of Planning)

Loretta Lees (University of Leicester)

Margaret Byron (University of Leicester)

Panel discussion led by Michael Edwards (Bartlett School of Planning)

This event has kindly been supported by the the UCL Grand Challenge for Sustainable Cities. 

Ruth Glass and London: Aspects of Change 1964-2014

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Monday night lecture: London's gentrification game. Professor Chris Hamnett

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