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Core teaching facultyAyona Datta is Lecturer in the Cities Programme, Admissions Tutor for the MSc City Design and Social Science, and co-convenor of the MSc Culture and Society. She convenes the Cities core course on Urban Environment. She has an interdisciplinary background in architecture, environmental design and planning. Her research interests span overlapping and interlinking themes of gender, space, and power; home, migration, and the city; urban politics and social agency; and politics of sustainability. She recently completed a British Academy Research on gendered agency, space and power in squatter settlements. Her second research area explores how notions of home and the global city are shaped through the building activities of East European migrant workers arriving in London after EU expansion in 2004. Her third research area project explores the politics of mobility and sustainability in luxury housing along the Izmir-Cesme expressway in Turkey. A further research in this area is to be undertaken in 2010 on the Mumbai-Pune expressway in India. She has published in a number of refereed journals and is currently completing a book on gender, place, and social agency in squatter settlements in Delhi. Another co-edited book Translocal Geographies: Spaces, Places, Connections is due out with Ashgate in 2010. She is on the editorial board of ACME: an international e-journal for critical geographies and of Open House International. Juliet Davis is Cities Studio Tutorial Fellow, and a chartered member of the RIBA (2005). She was previously Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Interiors at the Canterbury School of Architecture, University College for the Creative Arts (2005-07), ran the first year of the BA (Hons) Architecture at Cambridge University, 2004-05, and lectured in architectural theory on the same programme in 2006 and 2007. Between 1999 and 2005 she worked in practice as Project Architect with Eric Parry Architects. Her recent publications include '(Re)imagining Bishopsgate Goodsyard', Architectural Research Quarterly (ARQ), vol. 12, 2008: 12-25; 'Liverpool finds Energy in Art', Building Design no. 1740, September 29 2006: 20-21; 'Mastering his Universe', Building Design no. 1673, May 13 2005: 12; she has pieces forthcoming in ARQ and Urban Studies. Her current research in the Cities Programme focuses on the construction of the 'Legacy' masterplan for the London Olympics, 2012. David Frisby is Professor of Sociology and member of the Cities Programme, where he convenes the core course on Foundations of Urban Studies. His research interests focus upon metropolitan modernity, architecture and urban cultures, German social theory in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the social theory of Georg Simmel. He maintains an interest in critical social theories of modernity, originally developed in his Fragments of Modernity (Polity, third printing 2003) and elsewhere. His recent publications include Georg Simmel in Wien (WUV Universitätsverlag, 2000), Cityscapes of Modernity (Polity, 2001), Georg Simmel. Revised Edition (Taylor and Francis, 2002). He is the editor of the third enlarged edition of Simmel’s Philosophy of Money (Routledge, 2004) and of volume 18 of Simmel’s collected works (2008). Current projects include a forthcoming study of Otto Wagner’s Vienna and, with Iain Boyd Whyte, a sourcebook on Berlin: 1890-1940. Suzanne Hall is Cities Studio Tutorial Fellow and has practiced as an architect and urban designer in South Africa, where she started a practice in 1997. She has taught in architecture and urbanism departments at the University of Cape Town (1997-2003) and University of Cambridge (2005-06). Her studio’s focus on public projects including market places and transport interchanges have recently been published and exhibited in ‘Architecture after Apartheid: Shaping the Rainbow Nation’, in Matthew Barac (guest editor) (2007), Architectural Review, June issue, and in ‘Between Ownership and Belonging: transitional space in the Post-Apartheid metropolis, curated by Mphethi Morojele as part of the 2006 Venice biennale on Cities, Architecture and Society, and subsequently exhibited at RIBA in 2007. Her current research focuses on the contemporary increase in cultural and ethnic diversity in London, and what this means for social life and shared space on a local South London street. Recent and forthcoming publications include: ‘Picturing difference: juxtaposition, collage and layering of a multi-ethnic street’, in Anthropology Matters, Spring Issue (2010); ‘Being at home: space for belonging in a London Caff’, in Ayona Datta (guest editor) Open House International, (2009); and ‘Narrating the City: diverse spaces of urban change, South London’, in Maurice Mitchell (guest editor) Open House International, vol.33 no.2 (2008). Philipp Rode is Executive Director of the Urban Age research programme, and Ove Arup Foundation Fellow at the Cities Programme. He co-convenes the Lent term Studio on City-making: The Politics of Urban Form. As researcher and consultant he is involved in interdisciplinary projects comprising urban governance, transport, city planning and urban design. Rode organised Urban Age conferences in partnership with Deutsche Bank’s Alfred Herrhausen Society in New York, Shanghai, London, Mexico City, Johannesburg, Berlin and Mumbai, bringing together political leaders, city mayors, urban practitioners, private sector representatives and academic experts. He manages the Urban Age research efforts, recently published the report ‘Integrated City Making’ (2008) and co-edits the programme’s newspaper and bulletin. Recent London-focused research includes ‘Density and Urban Neighbourhoods in London’ (2005) and ‘A Framework for Housing in the London Thames Gateway’ (2004). He has previously worked on several multidisciplinary research and consultancy projects in New York and Berlin and was awarded the Schinkel Urban Design Prize 2000. Robert Tavernor is Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, and was Director of the Cities Programme from 2005-08. He is an architect and architectural historian with an active London-based urban planning consultancy, which advises on major urban design projects. His publications focus on the classical tradition of European architecture and cities, body and building, and on the urban development of London. They include translations of key 15th and 16th century architectural texts by Alberti and Palladio (for The MIT Press), and he is producing a new translation of Vitruvius’s De architectura, for Penguin Classics (2008). He is the author of Palladio and Palladianism (Thames & Hudson, 1991); On Alberti and the Art of Building (Yale UP, 1998); and Smoot's Ear: The Measure of Humanity (Yale UP, 2007); and co-editor of Body and Building: Essays on the changing relation of Body to Architecture (The MIT Press, 2002). His essay, ‘From Townscape to Skyscape’, (The Architectural Review, March 2004) summarises his recent urban research on the visual impact of tall buildings in London. Fran Tonkiss took over as Director of the Cities Programme from October 2008 and is convenor of the MSc City Design and Social Science. She convenes the City Design Research Studio in Michaelmas and Summer terms, as well as the core course on Cities by Design. She is Reader in Sociology, whose research interests are in urban and economic sociology. In the field of urban studies her focus is on urban development, design and governance; space and social theory; urban communities, social and spatial divisions. Her work in economic sociology is concerned with issues of globalisation; inequality and economic governance; trust and social capital; markets and marketisation. She is the author of Contemporary Economic Sociology: Globalisation, Production, Inequality (Routledge, 2006) and Space, the City and Social Theory (Polity, 2005), the co-author (with Don Slater) of Market Society: Markets and Modern Social Theory (Polity, 2001), and the co-editor of Trust and Civil Society (Macmillan, 2000). She is an editor of the British Journal of Sociology. Savvas Verdis has been teaching in the Cities Programme since 2001, first with Professor Richard Sennett and currently with Professor David Frisby and Philipp Rode in subjects that include urban history, urban politics, urban sociology and urban economics. He co-convenes the Lent term Studio on City-making: The Politics of Urban Form. His studies and research in architectural history at Cambridge University, political philosophy at the New School for Social Research and urban economics at University College London look at major economic and political reforms in urban history. These include contemporary cities under structural adjustment, the urban reformers of Victorian London, Hausman’s 19th century Paris and Cleisthenes’ geopolitical reforms in classical Athens. Savvas is also founder & director of Property Analytics Ltd and a member of the Institute of Economic Development. He has been an Onassis Public Benefit Foundation scholar on two occasions and has previously managed a $50 million cultural framework for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games.
Associated teaching faculty Burdett, Ricky - LSE Centennial Professor in Architecture and Urbanism, Director Urban Age Sennett, Richard - Professor of Sociology Sklair, Leslie - Professor Emeritus in Sociology Soja, Edward - former LSE Centennial Professor |
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