Laura Vaughan

Laura Vaughan is Professor of Urban Form and Society and the Director of the Space Syntax Lab, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. She has extensive experience of research into the relationship between urban form and society using space syntax methods to consider some of the most critical aspects of cities and society, ranging from spatial inequalities and health, poverty and housing, to economic and social vitality. Her research has established theoretically that spatial form needs to be understood as a contributing factor in the creation of patterns of integration and segregation in cities. It has also established methodologically that there is a need to develop descriptively rich methods for analysing historic socio-economic changes to cities - including both spatial as well as political processes.