About Loretta Lees
Professor Loretta Lees is the Director of the Initiative on Cities and a Professor of Sociology at Boston University. An urban geographer committed to justice, Professor Lees is internationally known for her research on gentrification and urban regeneration, global urbanism, urban policy, urban public space, architecture, and urban social theory.Selected Publications
LEES,L. and Warwick,E. (2022) Defensible Space: mobilisation in English Housing Policy and Practice, RGS-IBG Book Series, Wiley. , LEES, L. (2022) Gentrification, urban policy, and urban geography, Space and Polity. (https://doi.org/10.1080/13562576.2022.2098648) , Rozena,S. and LEES, L. (2021) The Everyday Lived Experiences of Airbnbification in London, Social and Cultural Geography , Luger, J. and LEES, L. (2022) Revisiting urban public space through the lens of the 2020 global lockdown, Urban Geography, 43:6:797-809.
Loretta Lees
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