A little before the Covid-19 pandemic, I experimented with a new mode of teaching assessments that involved the writing of academically informed but public-facing blogs. Some of the exemplary pieces have been released on this teaching blog, https://urbanasia.blog. The site, https://urbanasia.blog, is designed for educational purpose to share primarily the writings of students who carry […]
A postgraduate course I teach, titled Cities and Social Change in East Asia (Course code: GY438), has blog writing as an assignment. This course is an interdisciplinary course that encourages students to develop a criticalunderstanding of how urban space is transformed in diverse social, economic and political settings. The course is comparative in nature, taking […]
Below is a call for papers forwarded upon request from the conference organiser. This may interest colleagues studying urban issues related to Korea. Please see below. Abstract submission by 5th May 2016. Call for Papers Global Cities and Urban Studies: Korea in Comparative Perspective Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, 16-18 June 2016 Over half […]
With apologies for any cross-posting, Call for Abstracts RC21 International Conference on The Ideal City: Between Myth and Reality 27-29 August 2015 | Urbino, Italy (Re-)making Cities: the politics of scale in mega-projects in Asia and beyond STREAM F – Urban renewal The globalisation of Asian economies has accompanied the emergence of urban real […]
I am running a summer school course, Urban Asia and China (course code: LPS-GY201) as part of the LSE-Peking University Summer School in August 2014. The Summer School runs between 11-22 August 2014, and takes place in Beijing. More information on the Summer School can be found here: LSE-Peking University Summer School. Applications for the 2014 […]