Fran Tonkiss 281113 - Culture Theory Space, Plymouth University

Ecologies and Inequalities Culture, Theory, Space Guest Seminar Series Thursday 28th November 2013 1.00pm -- 2.00pm Plymouth University Room 203, Roland Levinsky Building This talk will draw on thinking from the fields of urban and economic sociology, to investigate the relationship between urban development and design, urban inequalities, spatial divisions and public space. Key changes in each of these domains raise new challenges for analyzing social and economic relations, power, agency and identity. Tonkiss will argue that whilst cities are machines for creating inequality; also machines for solving inequality. Background: Fran Tonkiss is Director of the LSE Cities Programme. Her research and teaching is in the fields of urban and economic sociology, with interests including cities and social theory, urban development and design, urban inequalities, spatial divisions and public space. Publications include Cities by Design: The Social Life of Urban Form will be published by Polity (2013), Space, the City and Social Theory (Polity, 2005), and Contemporary Economic Sociology (Routledge, 2006). She is currently working on a new book project on Urban Inequalities.