Pleasure to announce the release of a new discussion paper as part of the Discussion Paper Series published by the Department of Geography and Environment at LSE. Co-authored with Dr Mara Nogueira, PhD alumna in Human Geography and Urban Studies, the paper investigates the relations between work and urban space, focusing on the struggles of […]
Park, S-H., Shin, H.B. and Kang, H-S. (eds.) (2021) Exporting Urban Korea? Reconsidering the Korean Urban Development Experience. Routledge I’m pleased to see the cover design and the publisher proofs of a new forthcoming book that I co-edited with Dr Se Hoon Park and Dr Hyun Soo Kang. This book is A detailed examination of the “Korean […]
Prof. Hyun Bang Shin has published a new article, titled “Whither progressive urban futures?Critical reflections on the politics of temporality in Asia” in City.This article is co-authored with Dr Sin Yee Koh (Monash University Malaysia) and Dr Yimin Zhao (Remnin University), both alumni of the PhD programme in Human Geography and Urban Studies in the Department of Geography and Environment. The article can be […]
Happy to see the final publication of this new paper, “Contextualizing Accumulation by Dispossession: The State and High-Rise Apartment Clusters in Gangnam, Seoul”, from the Annals of the American Association of Geographers. The fruition of this co-authored paper has taken many years, and it’s great to conclude this project with this output. Abstract: In an […]
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 […]
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 […]
I have learnt from the publisher Polity Press yesterday that the sale of the right to publish Planetary Gentrification in Simplified Chinese is concluded. I am please with the prospect of readers from mainland China being able to read the book in Simplified Chinese. I look forward to receiving the translated copies soon.
Colleagues and students interested in understanding the ‘developmentalist’ interpretation of urbanisation in East Asia would be delighted to see the this new volume, Developmentalist Cities? Interrogating Urban Developmentalism in East Asia, edited by Jamie Doucette (University of Manchester) and Bae-Gyoon Park (Seoul National University), published by Brill in November 2018. I am pleased to receive an author copy of this new book […]
Happy to see the publication of this volume, which includes a paper of mine entitled “Urban movements and the genealogy of urban rights discourses: the case of urban protesters against redevelopment and displacement in Seoul, South Korea” previously published in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers (http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/84866/). The new edited volume is the republication […]
Glad to see the publication of this new handbook on gentrification studies, which also includes a chapter of mine. The chapter asks the following questions: Has gentrification ‘gone global? Has it diffused from its usual suspects (e.g., London and New York City) to other non-Anglo-American cities that are more peripheral to global capitalism? What is […]