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| Gary Bridge - DPhil |
| Gary is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Urban Studies, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol. His research interests are focused on social change in urban neighbourhoods, especially the process of gentrification. He has previously conducted research on urban neighbourhood change in London, Los Angeles and Sydney. Gary's policy related work on these issues has been carried out for DTLR, EU and most recently for the Urban Task Force under Lord Rogers.
He is a core member of the Centre for Neighbourhood Research and is currently engaged as principal investigator on an ESRC funded project on the housing histories of gentrifiers in Bristol (with Ray Forrest). Gary's other research and teaching interests include developments in urban theory (two key texts with Sophie Watson) and especially theories of human interaction in cities (currently working on a sole authored book 'Reason in the city of difference'. SELECTED FUNDED RESEARCH Centre for Neighbourhood Research Housing, Taste and Place: The Housing Histories of Gentrifiers SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Bridge, G. and Watson, S. (eds) (2002) The city: A Blackwell reader, Oxford: Blackwell. (750 pp) Bridge, G. (2002) 'Everyday rationality and the emancipatory city', in L. Lees (ed) The emancipatory city, Bridge, G. and Watson, S. (eds) (2000) A companion to the city, Oxford: Blackwell. Bridge, G. (2001) 'Estate Agents as intermediaries between economic and cultural capital: the "gentrification premium" in the Sydney housing market', International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, vol 25, no 1, pp 87-101, March. Bridge, G. (2001) 'Bourdieu, rational action and the time-space strategy of gentrification', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, vol 26, no 2, pp 205-16. Bridge, G. and Dowling, R. (2001) 'Microgeographies of retailing and gentrification', Australian Geographer, no 32, pp 93-107. Bridge, G. and Watson, S. (2001) 'Retext(ur)ing the city', City, Vol 5, No 3 |
