Yesterday marked the end of my five-year directorship of LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre. They were enjoyable, exciting and fulfilling years, and I was fortunate to have met thousands of people on various occasions. The attached blog is a summary reflection on my five years. I set out to make the centre more […]
Recently learnt our #Planetary#Gentrification book (Polity Press, 2016) is now out in Simplified Chinese, published by China Architectural Industry Press (中国建筑工业出版社). Yi Jin, my former PhD student and currently based at Nanjing University (Sociology), has kindly secured a few copies for me (see his image attached), and I can’t wait to open them. It’s good […]
Here is an online seminar taking place on 20 March 2023 together with Prof Jonathan Rigg at the University of Bristol. We consider the challenges of publishing in international journals and what steps to take for disseminating one’s research findings to the international audience.
This talk on 2 March is practically the first invited talk I am giving in 2023. It’s going to be on “smart cities as the urban utopia”, and I will be introducing the case of Songdo City, while the other panelist would speak about Ecuador’s Yachay City of Knowledge. It’s been a long while since […]