From 15th – 22nd September 2019, RC21 conference, “In and Beyond the City: Emerging Ontologies, Persistent Challenges and Hopeful Futures” was held in Delhi, India, and the visit to Delhi was a memorable one. At the conference, I convened sessions entitled “The Urban Spectre of ‘Global China’ and Critical Reflections on its Spatiality” together with my co-investigators […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 been part of this exciting research group since 2014 as part of the research project “Crisis and Transformation of East Asian Cities in the Age of Globalization” (In Korean: “세계화 시대 , 동아시아 도시의 위기와 전환”) funded by the Social Sciences Korea programme (2014-2017), National Research Foundation of Korea. The project aims to […]
중국 북경올림픽 주경기장이 거이 완성되어가나보다. Bird’s nest라는 ‘애칭’으로 불리우던 경기장에서 올 해 8월이면 개막식이 열린다. 말도 많고 탈도 많은 올림픽, 이제 곧 시작이다. 올림픽 직후 진행해야 할 중국에서의 현지조사 준비를 좀 더 신경써야겠다…아래 사진 두 장은 작년 3월 북경 방문시에 궁금해서 멀리서라도 찾아본 올림픽 경기장 건설 장면. 더 가까이 가고 싶었으나 접근 금지되어 어려웠다. 얼마전 […]