International guest faculty “Athena Lecture Series” - Fran Tonkiss
Welcome to the Athena Lecture: "Unequal cities, divided spaces - the search for equality" by Professor Fran Tonkiss, London School of Economics.
Organized by The Centre for the Future of Places, the School of Architecture and the Built Environment and Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson foundation.
Time: Thu 2018-06-14 15.00 - 17.00
Location: Openlab, Valhallavägen 79, Multihall
Participating: Professor Fran Tonkiss, LSE
Please register by sending e-mail to futureofplaces@abe.kth.se
Fran Tonkiss is Professor of Sociology, and Deputy Head of Department. Her research and teaching is in the fields of urban and economic sociology. Her research interests focus on urban inequalities, urban development and design, social and spatial divisions, and the socio-economic organisation of urban space. Publications in these fields include Cities by Design: the social life of urban form (Polity, 2013), Space, the City and Social Theory (Polity, 2005), and Contemporary Economic Sociology: Globalisation, Production, Inequality (Routledge, 2006). She is the co-author of Market Society: Markets and Modern Social Theory (Polity, 2001, with Don Slater), and co-editor of Trust and Civil Society (Macmillan, 2000, with Andrew Passey). She is currently managing editor of Economy and Society; she was previously an editor of the British Journal of Sociology, and remains a member of the editorial board.