Happy to see the final cover visual for the forthcoming new book of mine, co-authored with Loretta Lees (Leicester) and Ernesto López-Morales (University of Chile, Santiago). This book reflects on our collective project to rethink gentrification outside the usual Western suspects, and to locate gentrification in wider processes of urbanisation. Book description: At the beginning of […]
A very exciting position for early career scholars with a focus on urban China. This is an announcement of a postdoctoral fellow position to be based at the Department of Public Policy, City University of Hong Kong, working with its urban research group. Please contact Dr Bart Wissink at b.wissink@cityu.edu.hk if you are interested. Postdoctoral Fellow at […]
Urban Salon seminar Learning from China and Questioning China Exceptionalism: An interdisciplinary debate I am organising the next Urban Salon seminar, which is to take place at the LSE as a half-day workshop. The event will provide a space for a unique opportunity to listen to academics working in various disciplines, who are to reflect on […]
October 2015: A visit to Seoul to take part in the Seoul as a Model of Progressive City conference organised by a number of Korean institutions including Seoul Institute, 15-16 October. My talk was on “Progressive Cities and the Genealogy of Urban Rights”. Also gave a paper in the mini-Conference on Gentrification in the Context of East […]
The Urban Studies Foundation, which runs the Urban Studies journal, has just announced their invitation of applications for their next round of International Fellowship awards. The deadline for electronically submitting complete applications is 6 March 2015. It is said that the fellowship is for “urban scholars on any theme pertinent to a better understanding of […]
My first computer ever was an Apple IIe, which came with a shiny rainbow-coloured apple logo. It was one of the latest models at the time, and I think it came into my possession sometime in 1985 or perhaps in 1986. I was giving a lot of thoughts whether I should get an Apple or […]
I suppose coming to office during the school closure period has taken a toll on me. Or, it’s about time to go on a journey again? Living on the boundary has been a way of life for some time now. It’s like being in an interstitial space without knowing which direction the next move will […]
Yesterday I woke up with a pleasant surprise – the first snow this winter. It was the first one to have since moving to this neighbourhood, and the view from my flat towards the north was great. Trains were delayed but still running thankfully, but in the evening, no home-bound services. There were no trains […]
When I was told to come to the Hopewell Centre for a meeting this afternoon, it did not ring a bell to me that this was the tower that housed the famous revolving bar/restaurant on the 62nd floor. The name sounded familiar from the moment I read it, but I suppose I must have completely […]