Chris Hamnett, Guest Professor of the School of Public Administration and Policy of Renmin University of China (RUC), will give a lecture entitled “The Changing Occupational Class Structure of Global Cities” at 14:00-16:00 on October. 24.

The lecture will be hosted by the School of Public Administration and Policy, RUC. The lecture will be held in Room 320 in the Qiushi Building. Qin Bo, the Professor of the School of Public Administration and Policy, RUC, will preside over the lecture.

Abstract:

The lectures will examine the main theories about social class change in big Western cities, looking historically back to the 19th century but paying attention to the change since the 1960s and the rise of post-industrial society. It will look some evidence from London, Paris and Amsterdam.

References of this lecture:

1. Social polarisation in global cities: theory and evidence. Urban Studies, 1994

2. Gentrification and the middle-class remaking of inner London, 1961-2001. Urban Studies, 2003

Introduction:

Professor Hamnett is an Guest Professor of the School of Public Administration and Policy, RUC, and a tenured professor (emeritus) of Department of Geography at King's College London. He serves as the Academician of the British Academy (2007) and the Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (2011). His research mainly focuses on urban governance, the change of urban society, housing market and geography of education and welfare. He has published about 80 papers in journals of high impact factor (SSCI, SCI), which have been cited more than 13000 times. He has the world-class research level and academic reputation at the frontier fields of urban governance.