Faculty Member, Bartlett
Senior Lecturer in Urban and Suburban Settlement Patterns
Thesis Title: Clustering, Segregation and the 'Ghetto': the spatialisation of Jewish settlement in Manchester and Leeds in the 19th century
About
Laura Vaughan is a Senior Lecturer at the Bartlett and since the 1990s has acquired extensive experience in theoretical and applied research in the field of space syntax. Her PhD thesis considered the patterns of settlement in 19th century Jewish 'ghettos'. Her main research interests lie in the effects of urban structure on social marginalisation, on cities in conflict and on suburban life. Previously she has worked in architecture and urban design in Jerusalem. She has lectured extensively at universities in the UK and abroad, including Queen Mary, University of London and the Technion - Haifa Institute of Technology, Israel. She was conferred a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 2005. For the past 9 years she has been Course Director on the MSc Advanced Architectural Studies at the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL. Now she is focusing on its new Cities and Communities module, alongside developing research into ethnically mixed cities, such as Jerusalem, Nicosia and Belfast; into the economic viability of smaller town centres and into health and walkability.
Contact Information
http://www.space.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/people/laura/
