David ley

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David Ley is Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia in Canada. In 1986 he finishes his B.A. with honors at the Oxford University and in 1972 he becomes M.S., Ph.D. at the Pennsylvania State University. Ley was the UBC Director of the Vancouver Centre for Research on Immigration and Integration in the Metropolis (RIIM)from 1996-2003. He was also appointed a Trudeau Fellow (http://www.trudeaufoundation.ca/program/fellowships)from 2003-2006. Dr. Ley is the current Department Head of social and cultural geography, at the University of British Columbia.

Dr. Ley worked on a number of research projects on immigration in Canadian cities. He did extensive research on topics like: immigration, housing and labour markets; offsetting immigration and domestic migration in world cities; immigration and poverty; immigrant churches as service hubs; multiculturalism and the governance of diversity. The focus for most of his research projects lies in the field of social and urban geography. The cultural and political aspects are often of great influence in his research.

Dr Ley is widely respected as a human geographer. His contributions to the field of geography lie in his distinct interest in spatial activity in urban settings. Engagement is a keyword in his research. He focuses on the human aspect of geography. In a sense he could be called an exponent of the ‘Third Space’ (link intern) concept developed by Edward Soja. He studies the ‘lived space’ of the city in all its diversity.

Ley has always done his research in Canadian cities, but currently he is working on a project about the different economic and political contexts of Hong Kong. Dr. Ley has published a great deal of books, papers and articles (see list below).

Books

Ley, D., in preparation. Millionaire Migrants: Trans-Pacific Life Lines. Ley, D., 1996. The New Middle Class and the Remaking of the Central City. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 383 pp. Hasson, S. and D. Ley, 1994. Neighbourhood Organisations and the Welfare State. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 387 pp. Duncan, J. and D. Ley (eds.), 1993. Place/Culture/Representation. London and New York: Routledge, 341 pp. Bourne, L. and D. Ley (eds.), 1993. The Changing Social Geography of Canadian Cities. Montreal: McGill-Queens Press, 487 pp. Clarke, C., D. Ley and C. Peach (eds.), 1984. Geography and Ethnic Pluralism. London and Boston: Allen and Unwin, 294 pp. (Spanish edition, 1987). Ley, D., 1983. A Social Geography of the City. New York and London: Harper and Row, 449 pp. Ley, D. and M. Samuels (eds.), 1978. Humanistic Geography. Chicago: Maaroufa/Methuen, London: Croom Helm, 337 pp. Ley, D. (ed.), 1974. Community Participation and the Spatial Order of the City. Vancouver, BC: Tantalus Publications, 126 pp. Ley, D., 1974. The Black Inner City as Frontier Outpost: Images and Behaviour of a Philadelphia Neighbourhood. Washington, DC: Association of American Geographers, Monograph Series No. 7, 282 pp

Links http://www.geog.ubc.ca/~dley/homepage.html http://www.geog.ubc.ca/people/ http://international.metropolis.net/events/vancouver/bio/BIO_Ley.html http://www.trudeaufoundation.ca/resource/public/conferen/2009canadiancitiesandthepublicsphererethinkingtheu/speakers

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