Loretta Lees

9.4k total citations · 6 hit papers
94 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

Loretta Lees is a scholar working on Urban Studies, Finance and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Loretta Lees has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Urban Studies, 23 papers in Finance and 19 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Loretta Lees's work include Urban Planning and Governance (58 papers), Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (23 papers) and Urbanization and City Planning (22 papers). Loretta Lees is often cited by papers focused on Urban Planning and Governance (58 papers), Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (23 papers) and Urbanization and City Planning (22 papers). Loretta Lees collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Slovakia. Loretta Lees's co-authors include Mark Davidson, Phil Hubbard, Tim Butler, Adam Elliott‐Cooper, Tom Slater, Elvin Wyly, David Ley, Patrick Rérat, Juliet Carpenter and Mara Ferreri and has published in prestigious journals such as Urban Studies, Progress in Human Geography and Environment and Planning A Economy and Space.

In The Last Decade

Loretta Lees

88 papers receiving 5.2k citations

Hit Papers

Gentrification and Social... 2000 2026 2008 2017 2008 2005 2000 2003 2011 100 200 300 400 500
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Gentrification and Social Mixing: Towards an Inclusive Urban Renaissance?
    2008 569 citations Loretta Lees Urban Studies profile →
  2. New-Build ‘Gentrification’ and London's Riverside Renaissance
    2005 478 citations Mark Davidson, Loretta Lees Environment and Planning A Economy and Space profile →
  3. A reappraisal of gentrification: towards a ‘geography of gentrification’
    2000 407 citations Loretta Lees profile →
  4. Super-gentrification: The Case of Brooklyn Heights, New York City
    2003 363 citations Loretta Lees Urban Studies profile →
  5. The geography of gentrification
    2011 283 citations Loretta Lees profile →
  6. Moving beyond Marcuse: Gentrification, displacement and the violence of un-homing
    2019 248 citations Phil Hubbard, Loretta Lees et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Loretta Lees 3.9k 2.3k 1.3k 624 604 94 5.9k
David Ley 2.5k 0.6× 3.1k 1.3× 670 0.5× 468 0.8× 457 0.8× 103 6.1k
Chris Hamnett 1.9k 0.5× 1.8k 0.8× 1.2k 1.0× 384 0.6× 620 1.0× 116 4.1k
Ananya Roy 4.2k 1.1× 2.3k 1.0× 1.0k 0.8× 196 0.3× 2.1k 3.5× 69 6.9k
Susan S. Fainstein 2.3k 0.6× 1.9k 0.8× 804 0.6× 197 0.3× 737 1.2× 83 4.6k
Jennifer Robinson 3.4k 0.9× 1.8k 0.8× 639 0.5× 155 0.2× 1.5k 2.5× 86 5.4k
Ronald van Kempen 1.8k 0.5× 2.4k 1.0× 825 0.6× 289 0.5× 375 0.6× 109 3.9k
S. Musterd 2.9k 0.7× 4.4k 1.9× 1.3k 1.0× 514 0.8× 667 1.1× 264 7.2k
Mark Purcell 1.9k 0.5× 1.6k 0.7× 527 0.4× 290 0.5× 969 1.6× 62 4.7k
Eugene McCann 2.2k 0.6× 1.5k 0.6× 514 0.4× 187 0.3× 1.6k 2.7× 55 4.8k
Roger Keil 2.0k 0.5× 1.4k 0.6× 564 0.4× 144 0.2× 1.2k 2.0× 138 4.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lees, Loretta, et al.. (2025). A gentrification stage‐model for London? Through the ‘looking Glass ’ of Kensington. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 51(1).
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Willis, Mary D., et al.. (2024). The Promises and Potential Pitfalls of Highway Reclamation for Population Health: A Research Framework. Journal of Urban Health. 101(6). 1270–1273.
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Lees, Loretta, et al.. (2024). Should We Evict Critical Perspectives on the State-Led Gentrification of Council Estates in London? The Case of Woodberry Down. Urban Affairs Review. 61(2). 493–528. 2 indexed citations
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Reades, Jonathan, Loretta Lees, Phil Hubbard, & Guy Lansley. (2022). Quantifying state-led gentrification in London: Using linked consumer and administrative records to trace displacement from council estates. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 55(4). 810–827. 8 indexed citations
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Lees, Loretta, Tom Slater, & Elvin Wyly. (2022). The Planetary Gentrification Reader. 15 indexed citations
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Lees, Loretta & Phil Hubbard. (2020). The emotional and psychological impacts of London’s ‘new’ urban renewal. Journal of urban regeneration and renewal. 13(3). 241–241. 16 indexed citations
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Ley, David, Alison Mountz, Pablo Martí­n Méndez, et al.. (2020). Housing Vancouver, 1972–2017: A personal urban geography and a professional response. Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes. 64(4). 438–466. 4 indexed citations
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Lees, Loretta, et al.. (2019). Measuring and mapping displacement: The problem of quantification in the battle against gentrification. Urban Studies. 57(2). 286–306. 152 indexed citations
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Hubbard, Phil & Loretta Lees. (2018). The right to community?. City. 22(1). 8–25. 50 indexed citations
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Imrie, Rob, Loretta Lees, & Mike Raco. (2012). Chapter 1 - London’s regeneration. 1(40). 3–23. 1 indexed citations
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Lees, Loretta & Richard Baxter. (2011). A ‘building event’ of fear: thinking through the geography of architecture. Social & Cultural Geography. 12(2). 107–122. 52 indexed citations
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Lees, Loretta, Tom Slater, & Elvin Wyly. (2010). The Gentrification Reader. Taylor & Francis eBooks. 69 indexed citations
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Rérat, Patrick & Loretta Lees. (2010). Spatial capital, gentrification and mobility: evidence from Swiss core cities. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 36(1). 126–142. 122 indexed citations
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Davidson, Mark & Loretta Lees. (2005). New-Build ‘Gentrification’ and London's Riverside Renaissance. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 37(7). 1165–1190. 478 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lees, Loretta. (2004). The Emancipatory City?: Paradoxes and Possibilities. 43 indexed citations
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Lees, Loretta. (2003). Super-gentrification: The Case of Brooklyn Heights, New York City. Urban Studies. 40(12). 2487–2509. 363 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lees, Loretta. (1999). Warping the Cloth That Academics Weave: A Reply to Bondi (and Rose and Smith). Environment and Planning D Society and Space. 17(3). 255–260. 6 indexed citations
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Lees, Loretta & David Demeritt. (1998). ENVISIONING THE LIVABLE CITY: THE INTERPLAY OF “SIN CITY” AND “SIM CITY” IN VANCOUVER'S PLANNING DISCOURSE. Urban Geography. 19(4). 332–359. 31 indexed citations
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Lees, Loretta. (1996). In the Pursuit of Difference: Representations of Gentrification. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 28(3). 453–470. 42 indexed citations

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