Uppsala Lecture in Housing and Urban Research

XII: Rowland Atkinson

Lecture: Dark city: London’s super-rich, city politics and the criminal real estate economy

Rowland Atkinson is Research Chair in Inclusive Societies at the University of Sheffield. The central focus of his work is on how social divisions find spatial expression in urban contexts. He is an urban sociologist whose work crosses the boundaries of urban and housing studies, geography and criminology. His most recent book, Alpha City (2020), looked at how the super-rich influence the political and property machine of London.

XI: Margaret Kohn

Lecture: Urban Ideology in the New Gilded Age

Margaret (Peggy) Kohn is a Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Toronto. Her primary research interests are in the areas of the history of political thought, critical theory, social justice, and urbanism. Her most recent book The Death and Life of the Urban Commonwealth was published 2016.

X: Leah Platt Boustan

Lecture: Streets of gold: The role of geography in immigrant assimilation in the United States

Leah Platt Boustan is a professor at Economics at Princeton University and director of the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton’s Department of Economics. She is also co-director of the Development of the American Economy Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research and co-editor at the Journal of Urban Economics.

The lecture was held on Zoom due to the covid19-pandemic.

IX: Raquel Rolnik

Lecture: Urban Warfare – Housing under the empire of finance

Raquel Rolnik is a professor, architect and urban planner at the University of São Paulo. From 2008 to 2014, professor Rolnik was the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing. She has written several books, including Urban warfare: Housing and cities in the age of finance, on which she based her lecture in Uppsala.

VIII: Karl Schlögel

Lecture: How to Read East European Cities- Bringing back space into history

Karl Schlögel is a professor of Eastern European History. In Sweden, he is perhaps best known for his 2008 book Moscow, 1937 (English translation published in 2014), with the Swedish title Terror och dröm. Moskva år 1937 (2011). His lecture discusses Eastern Europe’s post-war urban development.

VII: David Harvey

Lecture: Visualizing Capital

David Harvey is a professor of Anthropology and Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) and an internationally leading theoretician within the field of urban studies. In 1960 and 1961, Harvey was postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Social and Economic Geography at Uppsala University, and in 2000 he was conferred the title of honorary doctor at the University.

VI: Li Zhang

Lecture: Battles Over Green Space: Land Disputes, Rights Activism, and Emerging Publics in Urban China

Li Zhang is a professor of Anthropology and Acting Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of California, Davis. Her research deals with the social, political and cultural effects of market reforms and social transformations in today’s post-socialist China.

V: Edward Glaeser

Lecture: The Urban Century – An Urban World

Edward Glaeser is a professor of Economics at Harvard University. He has introduced several theories within urban geography, price theory and poverty.

IV: Gerry Stoker

Lecture: Challenging Democratic Myopia: Decentralised decision-making and citizen participation

Gerry Stoker is a professor of Politics and Governance and the director of the Centre for Citizenship, Globalization and Governance (C2G2) at the University of Southampton. He is also a professor of Politics at the University of Canberra.

III: Sharon Zukin

Lecture: Beyond authenticity: Local shopping streets in global cities

Sharon Zukin is a professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College in New York. Her book Loft living (1982, 1989) is considered ground-breaking.

II: Loïc Wacquant

Lecture: Paradoxes of ghettoization

Loïc Wacquant is a professor of Sociology. He is active at the University of California, Berkeley and associated with the Centre de sociologie européenne (CSE) in Paris. He has researched on ghettos and prisons.

I: Susan J. Smith

Lecture: The crisis of residential capitalism: a tale of three markets and four visions

Susan J. Smith is a Professor of Social and Economic Geography at the University of Cambridge.

Unfortunately, her lecture was not recorded.