Year: 2014

CFP RC21 2015: (Re-)making Cities: the politics of scale in mega-projects in Asia and beyond

With apologies for any cross-posting, Call for Abstracts RC21 International Conference on The Ideal City: Between Myth and Reality 27-29 August 2015  |  Urbino, Italy   (Re-)making Cities: the politics of scale in mega-projects in Asia and beyond STREAM F – Urban renewal The globalisation of Asian economies has accompanied the emergence of urban real […]

International Fellowship from the Urban Studies Foundation

The Urban Studies Foundation, which runs the Urban Studies journal, has just announced their invitation of applications for their next round of International Fellowship awards. The deadline for electronically submitting complete applications is 6 March 2015. It is said that the fellowship is for “urban scholars on any theme pertinent to a better understanding of […]

Chinese version of my paper on Displacement and Urban Redevelopment in Seoul

Back in 2008, I had a paper published in the journal, Environment and Urbanization. It discusses the effectiveness of public rental housing provision as compensation measures for tenants in substandard neighbourhoods which become subject to wholesale demolition and redevelopment. I argue in the paper that while the provision of public rental housing provision is a step […]

2015 AAG CFP – The Politics of Desire and Despair: Contextualising Rights in Urban Protests against Displacement in Asia and Beyond

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Call for Papers for a session that I am to organise in anticipation of the 2015 annual conference of the Association of American Geographers in Chicago. Please feel free to disseminate and share. The Politics of Desire and Despair: Contextualising Rights in Urban Protests against Displacement in Asia and Beyond Association of American Geographers (AAG) […]

Journal article (2014): Urban spatial restructuring, event-led development and scalar politics

A recent paper of mine on examining Guangzhou’s use of the Asian Games has just been published by the journal Urban Studies. Entitled “Urban Spatial Restructuring, Event-led Development and Scalar Politics”, it examines the use of the 2010 Summer Asian Games by Guangzhou in China as a means to justify its developmental vision that aimed […]

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