Gary Bridge
- Professor of Urban Studies - BA (Oxon) MSc (UCLA) DPhil (Oxon)
- Centre for Urban and Public Policy Research
- Tel: +44 (0)117 954 5586
- Email: Gary.Bridge@bristol.ac.uk
Personal profile
Gary Bridge is Professor of Urban Studies at the School.
His research interests include work in social/urban theory and class, gentrification and urban social change. Recent work on gentrification has included an ESRC project entitled "Housing, taste and place: the housing histories of gentrifiers", which looks at the class and aesthetics dynamics of gentrification in terms of the lifecourse of gentrifiers.
Publications include papers on class and gentrification, provincial gentrification and an edited collection with Rowland Atkinson Gentrification in a Global Context (Routledge 2005). Research in social/urban theory is concerned with ideas of rationality, communication and philosophical pragmatism in understanding urban life. Recent publications on this theme include Reason in the City of Difference: Pragmatism, communicative action and contemporary urbanism (Routledge 2005).
Gary is editor of the Routledge Questioning Cities series with Sophie Watson, with whom he previously published the Blackwell City Reader and A Companion to the City. He is a panel member of the Urban Atlantic workshop series sponsored by the British Academy.
Teaching interests
Philosophy of social science; theories of social welfare; understanding urban society.
Research interests
Social theory and the city; rationality, pragmatism, time and space and the city; gentrification, class and space; neighbourhood dynamics.
Research projects
Current
Completed
- Social mix and neighbourhood revitalisation: linking globalised policy perspectives to locally embedded experiences - towards a transatlantic comparison (2009)
- Centre for Neighbourhood Research (2005)
- Housing, taste and place: The housing histories of gentrifiers (2003)
- E-democracy and e-communities research and evaluation project (2003)