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Dr Laura Vaughan

BDes MSc PhD SEDA FRGS
Senior Lecturer in Urban and Suburban Settlement Patterns email: l.vaughan@ucl.ac.uk]

Laura Vaughan is a Senior Lecturer in Urban and Suburban Settlement Patterns and leads the Cities and Communities module within the MSc in Advanced Architectural Studies MSc in Advanced Architectural Studies at the Bartlett, Bartlett, UCL and a member of UCL’s Space research group. She has expertise in the application of space syntax — a theory of societies and spatial systems — to a variety of urban topics, including immigrant settlement patterns, poverty areas and the spatial form of sustainable suburban town centres. She is also developing research into ethnically mixed cities, such as Jerusalem and Belfast. 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.

Prior to joining UCL in 2001, Laura was Research Associate and Company Secretary at Space Syntax Limited (a UCL knowledge transfer spin out). Laura’s first degree was in Environmental Design from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel (after which she practiced as an architect for several years). Her Masters degree in Advanced Architectural Studies was completed in 1994 and her PhD in 1999 – both at the Bartlett, UCL.

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Research interests

• Space and Exclusion

Urban research at street scale using demographic data in the following areas: social and economic exclusion; immigrant settlement patterns; divided cities; ethnic integration/segregation; suburbs.

Projects

• Space and exclusion: the relationship between physical segregation and economic marginalisation in the urban environment
• Towards Successful Suburban Town Centres: A study of the relationship between morphology, sociability, economics and accessibility
• Mapping the East End 'Labyrinth'

Selected publications

• Vaughan, L., Griffiths, S., Haklay, M. & Jones, C. E. (2009) 'Do the suburbs exist? Discovering complexity and specificity in suburban built form', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 34, 475-488

• Vaughan, L., Jones, C. E., Griffiths, S. and Haklay, M. (2009) The Spatial Signature of Suburban 'Active' Centres. Proceedings of the Seventh International Space Syntax Symposium, Stockholm, 127:1-127:13

• Vaughan, L. and Geddes, I. (2009) 'Urban form and deprivation: a contemporary proxy for Charles Booth's analysis of poverty', Radical Statistics, 98

• Vaughan, L. (2007) The spatial syntax of urban segregation. Progress in Planning, no.67 (3)

• Vaughan, L. and Hanson, J. and Conroy Dalton, R. (2007) Teaching space syntax through reflective practice. In: Sixth International Space Syntax Symposium, 12-15 Jun 2007, Istanbul, Turkey.

• Vaughan, L. (2007) The spatial syntax of urban segregation. Progress in Planning, no.67 (3)

• Vaughan, L. (2006) Making connections: the case of Borehamwood. Built Environment, 32 (3). pp. 281-297.

• Vaughan, L., Clark, D. L. C., Sahbaz, O. and Haklay, M., 2005, Space and exclusion: does urban morphology play a part in social deprivation?. Area 37:402-412

• Vaughan, L., 2005, The relationship between physical segregation and social marginalisation in the urban environment. World Architecture 185:88-96

• Vaughan, L. and Penn, A., 2006, Jewish immigrant settlement patterns in Manchester and Leeds 1881. Urban Studies 43:653–671

• Vaughan, L., Clark, D. L. C., Sahbaz, O. and Haklay, M., 2005, Space and exclusion: does urban morphology play a part in social deprivation?. Area 37:402–412

• Vaughan, L., 2005, The relationship between physical segregation and social marginalisation in the urban environment. World Architecture 185:88–96

• Penn, A. and Desyllas, J. and Vaughan, L. (1999) The space of innovation: interaction and communication in the work environment. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 26 (2). pp. 193-218.

Full list available from Eprints