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 […]
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 […]
Chen, Y.-L. and Shin, H.B. (eds.) (in press) Neoliberal Urbanism, Contested Cities and Housing in Asia. Palgrave Macmillan Above is an edited volume that I have been working on as co-editor is now at the production stage, scheduled to appear in July 2019. The other co-editor is Dr Yi-Ling Chen at the University of Wyoming. […]
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.
Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre is organising its first ever #ECR networking event to take place on 13th February at LSE. Please see the event description in the image below. This is an exciting opportunity to meet ECRs working on Southeast Asia. If you cannot attend but want to be added to the networ […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]