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I.R.Gordon@lse.ac.uk

1962-5

  Magdalen College, Oxford; BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics

1971-3

University of Kent at Canterbury  - Research Fellow in Economics,

1973-89

University of Kent at Canterbury  - Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Studies, Director of Urban and Regional Studies Unit, Senior Lecturer in IDS, Reader in Regional Studies

!989-99

University of Reading – Professor of Geography

1999-

London School of Economics – Professor of Human Geography

Ar various times

Social Research Association (Founding Committee and Vice-Chairman); Regional Science Association (Secretary, British Section), Institute of  British Geographers, Royal Economic Society, Regional Studies Association

Awards

1980-82

Metropolitan Labour Market Analysis, with particular reference .to London, SSRC (UK)      

1982-4

London study for Inner Cities in Context programme (with Ken. Young), ESRC

1984

The experience of disadvantaged groups in expanding labour markets , ESRC

1985-7

Thanet case study for Changing Urban and Regional Systems programme (with                                  Chris Pickvance and Peter Taylor-Gooby) , ESRC

1988-9

Economic Change, Urban Revival and Social Polarisation: London and New                          York in the contemporary world  (with Michael. Harloe) , ESRC

1991-55

Territorial Competition  in the Single European Market (with Paul. Cheshire)

1995-7

Densities and  Urban Sustainability  (with Michael. Breheny)  EPSRC

1998-2002

Does Spatial Concentration of Disadvantage Contribute to Social Exclusion?                          (with Nick. Buck) , ESRC

1998-2002

London: : economic competition, social cohesion and the policy environment               (with Nick Buck, Peter Hall, Michael Harloe and Mark Kleinman), ESRC

2004

The Resurgent City: international symposium (with Paul. Cheshire) , Leverhulme  Trust

2005

Buck, ,N.H., Gordon, I.R., Harding, A. and Turok, I. (eds.) Changing Cities: Rethinking urban competitiveness, cohesion and governance, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

2004

Gordon, I.r.. 'Unemployment And Spatial Labour Markets: Strong Adjustment And Persistent Concentration.' In Geographies of Labour Market Inequality. Edited by Martin, R.; Morrison, P. London: Routledge, pp. 55-82.

2002

Buck, N.H., Gordon, I.R., Hall, P.G., Harloe, M., Kleinman, M. Working Capital: life and labour in contemporary London, London: Routledge.

2000

Gordon, I.R. and McCann, P. Industrial Clusters: complexes, agglomerations and/or social networks, Urban Studies, 37, 513-532

1996

Cheshire, P.C. and Gordon, I.R. Territorial competition and the predictability of collective (in)action. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 20,  383-399.

1995

Cheshire, P.C. and Gordon, I.R. (eds) Territorial Competition in an Integrating Europe, Aldershot: Avebury.

1995

Gordon, I.R. ‘Migration in a segmented labour market’, Transactions, Institute of British Geographers, 20, 139-155.

1995

Gordon, I.R. ‘The impact of economic change on minorities and migrants in Western Europe’, ch 16 of K. McFate, R. Lawson, and W.J. Wilson (eds) Poverty, Inequality, and the Future of Social Policy: Western States in the New World Order, New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

1992

Fainstein, S.S., Gordon, I.R. and Harloe, M. (eds.) Divided Cities: New York and London in the contemporary world, Cambridge MA and Oxford: Blackwell.

1989

Gordon, I.R. and Thirlwall, A.P. (eds) European Factor Mobility, London: Macmillan.

1987

Gordon, I.R. (ed.) Unemployment, Regions and London Markets: Reactions to Recession, London: Pion Press.

1986

Buck, N.H., Gordon, I.R. and Young, K.G.  The London Employment Problem, Oxford University Press