Hyun Bang Shin’s Leverhulme Research Fellowship explores speculative urbanisation, property hegemony, and Seoul’s urban futures in a 20-month project.

The Political Economy of Megaprojects in Asia ed. Hyun Bang Shin & Dong-Wan Gimm critiques the megaproject as the dominant model of urban development in Asia.

Listen to this episode from Displacement Urbanism on Spotify. Romola Sanyal and Rene Kreichauf talk about the housing challenges faced by asylum seekers in European cities, how these are tied to larger economic logics and issues of race. They also explore how such housing crises extend beyond urban areas to rural spaces that come to be waiting zones.René Kreichauf is Assistant Professor in Urban Studies and Planning at Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research and Senior Researcher at the Brussels Institute for Social and Population Studies at Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Announcing four new faculty joining LSE’s Department of Geography and Environment in the 2026/27 academic year, strengthening research and teaching.

LSE Fellow in Urban Geography and Planning, , <p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university</span></em></p> <p style="text-a...

Research fields: Human geography Research themes: Urban planning project and related ideas in France, Mega-events and urban and regional development in the post-growth era, landscape formation of colo...

Eric Neumayer will discuss how the question of whether natural capital can be substituted by other forms of capital lies at the heart of the controversy.

Eric Neumayer will discuss how the question of whether natural capital can be substituted by other forms of capital lies at the heart of the controversy.

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I’m pleased to be teaching “Remaking China’s Urban Futures: Urban Transformations in a Global Context” as part of the Global Public Policy International Summer School, jointly launched by the LSE–Fudan Research Centre for Global Public Policy and the Fudan Institute for Global Public Policy. This course builds on my research on China, examining how China’s urbanisation as one of the fastest and most consequential remakings of space in modern history shapes governance, finance, inequality and environmental risk across urban, regional and global scales.

This article explores the endogenous characteristics of commons within the frameworks of precarity and commons through the urban commons movement in 1970s South Korea. During Korea's compressed capit....

Recently, China’s central government initiated a series of social policies to alleviate social disparities, providing opportunities to revisit state entrepreneu...

Good to see the release of this copy, a republication edition of our journal special issue with the same title: w/ Yimin Zhao and Sin Yee Koh. It was a pleasant surprise when Taylor &amp; Francis reached out in mid-November 2024 with a proposal to publish the above journal special issue papers as an edited volume. They had an editorial team that worked on the "Routledge Special Issues as Books programme", which seems to be actively looking for promising journal special issues that can be turned into an edited volume for wider audience reach.

Event exploring the legacies of the 1995 Bandung Conference, third-world internationalism