Dr. Mark Davidson received his B.A. (2002) and Ph.D. (2006) from the Department of Geography, King’s College London. He will join Clark University in January 2010, after working as a Research Fellow (2007-2009) at the Urban Research Centre, University of Western Sydney, Australia, and a Post-Doctoral Research Associate (2005-2007) in the Department of Geography and The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College. He is an urban geographer with research interests in gentrification, urban politics, policymaking, comparative urbanism and critical socio-spatial theory. His recent work has focused upon emergent modes of gentrification and related issues of displacement and the politics of concept adoption in the urban policymaking process. His research often combines qualitative and quantitative methods and is international in scope, including work in Europe, North America and Australasia.
Current Research
·Urban re-visioning and the gentrified city ·Post-industrial urban spaces and governance ·Politics, policymaking and sustainability in Sydney and Vancouver ·Social class in the post-political city
Fellowships and Awards
·Nelson A. Rockefeller Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Dartmouth College, USA ·School of Social Science and Public Policy Studentship, King's College London, UK ·Jelf Medal, King’s College London, UK ·W. B. Morgan Award, King’s College London, UK ·Sam Brooke Exhibition Prize, King’s College London, UK
Selected Publications
Davidson, M. (in press) Love Thy Neighbour? Social mixing in London’s gentrification frontiers, Environment and Planning A Davidson, M and Lees, L. (in press) New-build gentrification: its histories, trajectories, and critical geographies, Population, Space and Place
Davidson, M (2009) Waterfront Development. In: Thrift, N. and Kitchen, R. (eds) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (Elsevier, Oxford)
Davidson, M (2009) Social sustainability: a potential for politics? Local Environment, 14(7), 1-13
Davidson, M (2009) Displacement, Space/Place and Dwelling: placing gentrification debate, Ethics, Place and Environment, 12(2), 219-234
Davidson, M (2008) Spoiled Mixture - Where does state-led 'positive' gentrification end? Urban Studies, 45, 2385-2405
Davidson, M (2008) London’s Blue Ribbon Network: Riverside Renaissance along the Thames. In: Imrie, R., Lees, L. and Raco, M. (eds) Regenerating London (Routledge, London), 173-191
Davidson, M (2007) Gentrification as global habitat: a process of class formation or corporate creation? Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 32(4), 490-506
Davidson, M and Lees, L. (2005) New Build ‘Gentrification’ and London’s Riverside Renaissance, Environment and Planning A, 37(7), 1165-1190
