On 23 and 24 March 2018, I had the pleasure of visiting Tokyo to give two invited talks. On 23 March, the talk was at the Association of Japanese Geographers 2018 Spring Conference and was entitled “Unequal Cities of Spectacle in the Global East”. It was great to interact with urban geographers in Japan. On […]
The latest issue of the Annals of the American Association of Geographers is a collection of papers addressing the theme of “Social Justice and the City”. It has a wonderful set of contributions that have global coverage, including cases that range from Singapore, Hong Kong and Seoul, Bucharest to London, St.Louis, Chicago and Esmeraldas in […]
“The Economist house-price indices” https://www.economist.com/…/graphicd…/2018/02/daily-chart-5… The Economist has provided interesting visualisation of housing price index for 27 economies and 20 cities in the US. They have correctly identified that “FINANCIAL media focus most of their attention on stocks and bonds, but the world’s biggest asset class is actually residential property. With an estimated value of […]
Please find attached a copy of the Call for Papers for the 9th EARCAG conference in Daegu, South Korea, taking place between 10 and 13 December 2018. The first EARCAG event was in Daegu in January 1999, and the December 2018 gathering in Daegu is going to be a 20th anniversary return to the place […]