Core teaching faculty
Ricky Burdett is Professor of Urban Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and director of LSE Cities and the Urban Age Programme. He is a member of Council of the Royal College of Art in London. Burdett was Visiting Professor in Urban Planning and Design at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University in 2014 and Global Distinguished Professor at New York University from 2010 to 2014. He was also a member of the UK Government’s Independent Airports Commission. He has been involved in regeneration projects across Europe and was Chief Adviser on Architecture and Urbanism for the London 2012 Olympics (where he was involved in the selection of designers for many of the Olympic venues) and architectural adviser to the Mayor of London from 2001 to 2006. Burdett was also a member of the Urban Task Force which produced a major report for the UK government on the future of English cities. He is editor of The Endless City (2007), Living in the Endless City (2011) and Innovation in Europe’s Cities (2015).
More information: Staff Page, LSE Cities
Contact details: Room TW2 8.01J, 020 7955 7706 (LSE Cities office), r.burdett@lse.ac.uk
Suzanne Hall is Assistant Professor in Sociology and Director of the Cities Programme. Suzi is an urban ethnographer, and has practised as an architect in South Africa. Her research and teaching interests include social and economic forms of inclusion and exclusion in the context of global urbanisation, where she currently focuses on the micro economies and spaces of urban migration. From 1997 to 2003 her practice engaged with the role of design in the context of rapid urbanisation in poor and racially segregated areas in Cape Town, and her work has been published and exhibited nationally and internationally. Suzi was awarded an ESRC Future Research Leaders grant (2015-2017) for a comparative project on ‘Super-diverse Streets: Economies and spaces of urban migration in UK Cities’, which emerges out of her LSE Cities’ research project research on ‘Ordinary Streets’. She is author of City, Street and Citizen: The measure of the ordinary (2012).
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Contact details: TW2 8.01B, 020 7955 7056, s.m.hall@lse.ac.uk
David Madden is Assistant Professor in Sociology and teaches in the Cities Programme. He works on urban studies, political sociology and social theory. He has written about urbanism, globalization, cultural development, public housing and public space in New York City and elsewhere. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University and Bard College. He holds a PhD from Columbia University and is a member of the editorial board of the journal CITY.
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Contact details: Room STC S209, d.j.madden@lse.ac.uk
Philipp Rode is Executive Director of LSE Cities and Senior Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He co-convenes the LSE Sociology Course on ‘City Making: The Politics of Urban Form’. As researcher and consultant he has been directing interdisciplinary projects comprising urban governance, transport, city planning and urban design since 2003. The focus of his current work is on green economy strategies in cities which includes co-directing the cities workstream of the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate.
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Contact details: Room TW2 8.01I, 020 7955 6483, p.rode@lse.ac.uk
Fran Tonkiss is Professor of Sociology and former director of the Cities Programme. Her research and teaching is at the interface of urban and economic sociology, with key research interests in cities and social theory, urban development and design, urban inequalities and spatial divisions. Publications in these fields include Cities by Design: the social life of urban form (2013), Space, the City and Social Theory (2005), and Contemporary Economic Sociology: Globalisation, Production, Inequality (2006). She is the co-author of Market Society: Markets and Modern Social Theory (2001, with Don Slater), and co-editor of Trust and Civil Society (2000, with Andrew Passey). She is managing editor of the leading critical journal, Economy and Society.
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Contact details: Room STC 301, 020 7955 6601 (Sociology Department)
f.tonkiss@lse.ac.uk
Savvas Verdis has been teaching in the Cities Programme for over a decade, first with Richard Sennett and David Frisby and currently with Philipp Rode in subjects that include urban politics and urban economics. He co-convenes the Lent Term course on City-making: The Politics of Urban Form. His studies and research in architecture at Cambridge University, politics at the New School for Social Research and urban economics at University College London look at measurements of quality of life in cities and the economic assessment of infrastructure projects. Savvas is also the founder & director Rankdesk, London’s leading property analytics company. He has been an Onassis Public Benefit Foundation scholar on two occasions and has previously managed a $50 million cultural framework for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games.
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Contact details: s.verdis@lse.ac.uk