Elizabeth Wilson, author of several books on fashion, feminism, sexuality and the city, addresses the problem of Heterotopia in relation to the writings of Franois Maspero, Richard Sennett, Jane Jacobs and a number of women writers of the 1980s. Professor Elizabeth Wilson has taught for many years at London Metropolitan University, and also at Stanford University, California, Goldsmiths College, Kings College and the London College of Fashion.