On their way to one of the field trip sties, the Urban Spectre of Global China project team including Dr Sin Yee Koh from University of Monash Malaysia and Dr Yimin Zhao from Renmin University of China met up in Singapore with Dr Choon-Piew Pow at the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore to […]
I am thankful to have been awarded £33,999 from the LSE Middle East Centre’s Kuwait Programme to start a new research project in September 2019, which aims to analyse and compare how Asian cities have risen to become reference points for the development of cities in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. The study entitled Asian Capital […]
Earlier this week, Prof Hyun Bang Shin (@urbancommune) gave a lecture at the the Politecnico di Torino (@PoliTOnews) in Turin, Italy, entitled: “Coping with Crisis in Developmental Urbanization: The Case of Songdo City, South Korea”. Read more about the event here. Abstract This lecture aims to examine the underlying political economy of mega-project promotion in […]
Pleased to announce that I have been invited to join the editorial board of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, starting from January 2020. As a groundbreaking forum for intellectual debate, IJURR is at the forefront of urban and regional research, and I am honoured to be part of this endeavour. I look […]
Following the award of the British Academy grant to study “The Urban Spectre of Global China: Mechanisms, Consequences, and Alternatives for Urban Futures“, a project kick-off workshop was held on 19 June 2019 at LSE, hosted by the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre. Both Co-Investigators, Dr Sin Yee Koh and Dr Yimin Zhao, joined […]
On 25th April 2019, I had the pleasure of giving an open lecture at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies on the topic of “In the shadow of state-led gentrification: The commercialisation of residential properties in Seoul”. The abstract of the lecture can be found below. Abstract: This talk examines the rise and […]
It’s with great pleasure that my colleagues and I have been awarded a British Academy grant for its Tackling the UK’s International Challenges programme. The project, titled “The Urban Spectre of Global China: Mechanisms, Consequences, and Alternatives for Urban Futures”, is to run until July 2020, examining four large-scale property development projects of Chinese capital, to question […]
I have posted earlier (see here) about a new forthcoming book from @Palgrave_, Neoliberal Urbanism, Contested Cities and Housing in Asia, and it is my pleasure to confirm that the book proof has been finalised and it’s ready for the final production. The book’s cover image is also finalised and is attached here as follows. The image shows an aerial view of […]
Chen, Y.-L. and Shin, H.B. (eds.) (in press) Neoliberal Urbanism, Contested Cities and Housing in Asia. Palgrave Macmillan Above is an edited volume that I have been working on as co-editor is now at the production stage, scheduled to appear in July 2019. The other co-editor is Dr Yi-Ling Chen at the University of Wyoming. […]
A paper of mine on Asian Urbanism is going to appear in the forthcoming Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies, scheduled to be published in April 2019. Its author copy in PDF is downloadable from the LSE Research Online page found on this link: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/91490/ Abstract: This chapter on Asian urbanism begins by examining […]