We ar
e delighted to welcome Dr. David Ley as our next colloquium speaker on Tues
day 10th October.We ar
e delighted to welcome Dr. David Ley as our next colloquium speaker on Tues
day 10th October.
Dr. David Ley is Professor Emeriti in the Department of
Geography at the University of British Columbia. David is an urban geograph
er\, or perhaps better a human geographer interested in urban society and l
andscapes (treated in A Social Geography of the City\, 1983). His PhD resea
rch was a participant observation study in North Philadelphia (The Black In
ner City as Frontier Outpost\,
1974). Since appointment at UBC he has
examined various research themes in the Canadian city\, usually in a compar
ative perspective. Principal emphasis has been on gentrification (The New M
iddle Class and the Remaking of the Central City\, 1996)\, neighbourhood ac
tivism (Neighbourhood Organizations and the Welfare State\, 1994\, with Shl
omo Hasson)\, immigration and especially wealth migration (Millionaire Migr
ants: Trans-Pacific Life-Lines\, 2010) and the globalization of housing mar
kets and its consequences (Housing Bubbles in Gateway Cities\, 2023).
Residential harmony\, residential alienation: housing booms in gat eway cities
In the past
30 years the long-established relation between labour markets and housing m
arkets has increasingly decoupled in many large cities. Booming house price
s\, and to some degree rents\, leading to pervasive affordability crises\,
can no longer be limited to such conventional factors as local incomes or p
opulation growth. This rupture has been associated with the rise of ‘surplu
s demand’\, the increasing role of housing as a growth asset for local and
global investors in a low interest-rate environment. Housing as asset is no
w a major source of wealth accumulation and socio-economic polarisation. Ho
w stable is such a housing-based asset society? The contrasting cases of Si
ngapore and Hong Kong are compared\, showing 1) the unlikely outcome of app
arent residential harmony and social unity in asset-based societies\, and 2
) the more likely outcome of residential alienation and social division. A
broader objective of the presentation is to urge the unacknowledged central
ity of housing in contemporary human geographies. 
This event will take place in-person and on Zoom\, on Tuesday 26th Sepember from 12:00 pm - 1:45 pm Pacific.
No re gistration is necessary for in-person attendance\, in Geography Room 229.
Please register to receive Zoom meeting details.< /strong>
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