Ruth Glass

Ruth Glass (born Lazarus ) (* June 30, 1912 in Berlin, † 7 March 1990 in Sutton ) was a British sociologist German origin. She has researched and published in particular on issues of urban sociology and problems of ethnic minorities in major English cities.

Ruth Lazarus studied at the University of Berlin, put her studies but from 1932 the rise of National Socialism in Genoa and Prague continued. After that, the danger of Nazism Jew who emigrated to London, where she led her further social science studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science. From 1935 to 1941 she was married to the economist Henry William Durant, 1942, she was the wife of sociologist David Glass. After two years of research at Columbia University in New York and work in the UK regional planning was Ruth Glass in 1951 and from 1958 until Associate Director of Research at the Centre for Urban Studies, University of London, where she also taught as a professor. Particularly well known Glass was her work on social change in the London borough of Islington, which they named gentrification -making to the later career concept.