Prof. Hyun Bang Shin has published a new article, titled “Whither progressive urban futures?Critical reflections on the politics of temporality in Asia” in City.This article is co-authored with Dr Sin Yee Koh (Monash University Malaysia) and Dr Yimin Zhao (Remnin University), both alumni of the PhD programme in Human Geography and Urban Studies in the Department of Geography and Environment. The article can be […]
I have come across with this news today, which reports on the IOC’s consideration of postponing the Tokyo 2020. Such spectacles as Olympic Games entail a sense of ‘state of emergency’, leading to the suspension of normal planing processes and diversion of investment in necessary social and physical infrastructure for the poor and the marginalised. […]
LSE is one of the first universities in the UK to deliver the rest of teaching online as part of its effort to tackle the COVID19 pandemic situation, and also to switch summer term written exams into online assessments. All public events are also to be cancelled or postponed. My department is to enact this […]