The urban seashore is often seen as a natural frontier, its sands and seawater deemed an exceptional geography to be made productive through industrialization and urbanization. The coastline of Che...

In its age of global crisis, sand has acquired a conspicuous profile as an urban resource and undercover vector of statecraft. Amidst mounting reports of the disastrous effects of sand mining stoke...

This article engages with the work of Stuart Hall to examine conditions of agrarian city-making on India’s urban frontier. The article draws on Hall’s writings on articulation and marxist method to...

Contemporary postcolonial urban geographies aim to challenge dominant knowledge production by providing a more in-depth understanding of the frontiers of capital reproduction. This article explores...

New Urban Frontiers. Volume 46, Issue 8 of Urban Geography

Colonial urbanism cast African neighborhoods as chaotic, unplanned, and undesirable. In postcolonial Dar es Salaam, that legacy still shapes who builds, who belongs, and what the middle class fears th...

The frontier is undergoing a resurgence as a productive spatial trope in urban geographical research. This article provides a critical overview of this “frontier moment” and contextualizes it withi...

Author Claire Mercer talks about her new book and how the suburb and the middle classes construct each other.

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6.30pm Mon 31 Mar | Jo Sharp | Free public event at LSE

Assistant Professor in Urban Environmental Geography, , <p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>As an equal opportunities employer strongly committed to diversity and inclusion, we&nbsp;encourage app...

Attend Urbanisation, Planning & Development Seminars in the Department of Geography and Environment, LSE.

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The Brazilian geographer Milton Santos is known for his sophisticated theorisation of geographical space. Less well known, however, is the role that Milton Santos’ experience at the University of Dar...

After centuries of colonial rule, the end of Angola's three-decade civil war in 2002 provided an irresistible opportunity for the government to reimagine the...

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6.30pm Tue 26 Nov | Deborah James, Claire Mercer, Susan Parnell, Ola Uduku | Free public event at LSE

6.30pm Tue 26 Nov | Deborah James, Claire Mercer, Susan Parnell, Ola Uduku | Free public event at LSE