Global Gentrifications: Uneven Development and Displacement, a co-edited volume that I’ve been working on with Loretta Lees (University of Leicester) and Ernesto Lopez-Morales (University of Chile, Santiago), is finally out now! The initial starting of this project was the support from the Urban Studies Foundation and the Urban Studies journal for a seminar series on […]
The paper that I’ve been working on for a while with another colleague Professor Soo-Hyun Kim (Sejong University; now the Director of the Seoul Institute) is out now, published by the Urban Studies journal as an online first version. This is part of the forthcoming special issue on Locating Gentrification in East Asia, co-edited by myself, Loretta Lees […]
First Call for Papers RGS-IBG 2011 Conference: The Geographical Imagination 31st August – 2nd September 2011 (London) Gentrification in the Global South: Dilapidation, Obsolescence and Land Exploitation Organisers: Dr Hyun Bang Shin (Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics) h.b.shin@lse.ac.uk Dr Ernesto López-Morales (Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, University of Chile) elopez@uchilefau.cl Sponsors: Urban […]
The heritage conservation area surrounding Beijing’s Drum and Bell Tower is another place that I try to make a repeated visit whenever I am in Beijing. The first time I was here was back in 2002 when Shishahai was at its very early stage of becoming an entertainment zone. It was still tranquil back then. […]
Nanluoguxiang in Dongcheng District of Beijing is now known as a culture district, promoted by the district government as a showcase for heritage conservation and tourist attraction. While many hutongs in Beijing’s inner city areas have disappeared due to demolition and reconstruction-oriented urban renewal strategies, some hutongs have been selectively experiencing revalorisation through upgrading (if […]
Every time I come to Beijing, I try to make a repeated visit to some selected places in order to see what’s been changed. In a way, it is a semi-academic exercise, almost a ritual, in order for me to grasp the speed of Beijing’s socio-spatial changes. After all, Beijing is a city that condenses […]
An interesting plae that I happened to find by chance. It is located on Sanlitun South Street, diagonally opposite the new Sanlitun Village complex. It is fairly spacious and has a large collection of China-related ‘English’ books, and apparently hosts book talks, which is something that I also find quite new in Beijing. It seems […]
Beijing has changed again. This time in Beijing, the new development on Sanlitun North Street (known as ‘Sanlitun Bar Street’) came to me as a surprise. Sanlitun Village is something completely new to me, and it is apparently very bustling, full of luxury shops, bars, restaurants and cafe that aim at the new ‘middle-class’ in […]
박사논문을 준비하면서 방문했던 베이징내 마을이 Xinzhongjie 였다. Worker’s Stadium 인근에 위치한 이곳은 1950년대에 (구)소련 원조로 지어진 5층 아파트와 단층 주택 pingfang 등이 hutong을 따라 촘촘히 들어서 있다. 주거환경이 많이 낙후된 이 곳 역시 곧 있으면 철거될 것이라는 것이 2003년도 얘기였었다. 매번 방문할 때마다 이 곳을 꼭 한번씩 둘러보는데, 어찌된 영문인지 2004년 여름에도, 2007년 봄에도, 그리고 […]
베이징의 Drum Tower 일대는 베이징 방문할 때마다 한번씩 찾아보는 듯하다. Gulou 鼓楼 라는 역사적 유적이 위치해 있고, 인근 Houhai 后海 등이 있어, 주변에 Hutong 胡同이 완전 철거되지 않고 제법 남아 있기도 한 곳이다. 그래도 갈 때 마다 상업화가 진전됨을 볼 수 있다. 이번 여행길 아시아나항공 기내 잡지에 베이징 관광 가이드가 비치되어 있어 훝어 보니 이 […]