On 12th September 2019, it was pleasure to visit Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore and give a talk entitled “Urbanisation of (East Asian) Capital, and the Rise of Enclave Urbanism in Vietnam”. Many thanks to Prof Tim Bunnell (Director of ARI) for the invitation and to Prof Ho Kong Chong for chairing […]
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 […]
From 27th August to 31st August 2019, I was in Seoul, South Korea, attending the workshop “Reconsidering Korean Urban and Regional Development Experiences: Implication for International Cooperation” hosted by the Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements and organised by Dr Se-Hoon Park at KRIHS. My own talk was entitled “Urban Transformation with ‘Korean Style’: Lessons from Property-based Redevelopment […]
On their way to one of the field trip sties, the Urban Spectre of Global China project team including Dr Sin Yee Koh from University of Monash Malaysia and Dr Yimin Zhao from Renmin University of China met up in Singapore with Dr Choon-Piew Pow at the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore to […]
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 […]
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 […]
Pleased to announce that I have been invited to join the editorial board of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, starting from January 2020. As a groundbreaking forum for intellectual debate, IJURR is at the forefront of urban and regional research, and I am honoured to be part of this endeavour. I look […]
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 […]
On 25th April 2019, I had the pleasure of giving an open lecture at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies on the topic of “In the shadow of state-led gentrification: The commercialisation of residential properties in Seoul”. The abstract of the lecture can be found below. Abstract: This talk examines the rise and […]
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 […]