Dark city: London’s super-rich, city politics and the criminal real estate economy
- Date: 6 September 2023, 15:00–16:15
- Location: University Main Building, Sal IX
- Type: Lecture
- Lecturer: Professor Rowland Atkinson, University of Sheffield
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- Organiser: Institutet för bostads- och urbanforskning (IBF)
- Contact person: Ulrika Wahlberg
Uppsala Lecture in Housing and Urban Research
Most welcome to this public lecture with this year's lecturer Professor Rowland Atkinson! After the lecture the audience is invited to mingle with drinks and snacks.
About Rowland Atkinson
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.
About Uppsala Lecture in Housing and Urban Research
Uppsala Lecture in Housing and Urban Research is awarded to internationally leading researchers in residential and urban research. With Uppsala Lecture in Housing and Urban Research, the Institute for Housing and Urban Research wishes to make visible and stimulate housing and urban research of the highest quality - locally, nationally and internationally.