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 […]
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 […]
The first #UrbanSalon (http://theurbansalon.com) event in 2019 is to take place on 09 January 2019, Wed 4pm, featuring Loretta Lees (University of Leicester), Phil Hubbard (King’s College London) and Brian Doucet (University of Waterloo) to discuss Why #Detroit Matters. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/why-detroit-matters-decline-renewal-and-hope-in-a-divided-city-tickets-53947445261 Why Detroit Matters: Decline, Renewal and Hope in a Divided City Hosted by the […]
On Thursday 1 November 2018, I had the pleasure of giving an invited lecture on ‘China’s Urbanisation and Gentrification as State Project’ at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo. My lecture discussed how gentrification has become a state project in key metropolises of China resulting in not only the mass […]
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 […]
2015년 12월에 구상, 작년 초가을 본격 추진했던 중요한 프로젝트 하나를 이번 한국 방문 기간에 맞추어 마무리합니다. 새로 나오는 <안티 젠트리피케이션, 무엇을 할 것인가>를 기념하기 위해 저자들을 모시고 두 번의 행사를 갖습니다. 이번 출장 동안 미처 찾아뵙지 못하고 연락도 제대로 못드린 점 너그러이 이해해주시길 부탁드리며, 시간 되시는 분들은 두 행사장 모두 또는 한 군데에서 뵐 수 […]
지어진지 40년 가까이 된 개포동 저층 주공단지가 재건축으로 사라져갑니다. 그 와 함께 서울의 한 기억도 사라져 가고, 이곳에 터를 잡고 살았던 사람들도 상당수 떠나야 합니다. 그들에게 축출의 (displacement) 시간이 다가오고 있습니다. 젠트리피케이션을 얘기하면서 사람들의 축출만을 생각했는데, 막상 개포동을 다녀오고 나니 사람 뿐만 아니라 몇십년 동안 그 자리를 지키고 그 공간과 일부분이 된 수많은 나무들이 눈에 […]
Urban Salon is an interdisciplinary London-based seminar series that I organise with a few other colleagues (see the web site here: http://theurbansalon.org). As part of the series, I am organising a seminar that examines the experiences of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, juxtaposed with the experiences of Asian mega-events (China, Korea and Japan). More details […]
I am heading to take a part in the KOSMOS-Workshop “Universal Gentrification? Conceptional Challenges of Comparative Urbanism”” at Humboldt University in Berlin, organised by Dr Andrej Holm, and the first event scheduled will be the following book talk at a Berlin bookshop called “Pro qm”. This takes place on 14 October from 8.30 pm. Address: Pro qm, Almstadtstraße 48-50, D-10119 […]
I am very much looking forward to this ‘authors-meet-critics’ session at this year’s RGS-IBG annual conference, featuring my co-authored book Planetary Gentrification. The session is to be convened and chaired by Professor Ronan Paddision (University of Glasglow), and sees the contributions from three critics, Professor David Ley (The University of British Columbia), Dr Andy Merrifield […]