📢 LSE Public Lecture - Can natural capital be replaced? Dive into the debate on weak vs strong sustainability with Prof Eric Neumayer and explore whether natural capital can truly be substituted by other forms of capital. 🌍 🗓 10 Feb 2026 | 🕡 6.30–8pm, Sheikh Zayed Theatre & Online 👉 zurl.co/vSltz

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Summer School course on Remaking China’s Urban Futures I’m pleased to be teaching “Remaking China’s Urban Futures: Urban Transformations in a Global Context” as part of the Global Public Policy International Summer School, jointly launched by the LSE–Fudan Research Centre for Global Public Policy…

Year-end heads-up: LSE Department of Geography and Environment is hiring an Assistant Professor (Education) in Economic Geography & Urban Planning. Deadline 11 Jan 2026 (23:59 UK). Offline for the break? Bookmark for later: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... #AcademicJobs

[Vacancy Alert] LSE Geography is searching to recruit an Assistant Professor (Education) in Economic Geography and Urban Planning to join a world-leading geography department in the world. More details on this link: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Deadline: 11/01/2026

For anyone interested in learning more about critical urban/geography scholarship in #EastAsia, this review ("Looking Back on the Trajectory of Critical and Alternative Geography in East Asia") by Prof Byung-Doo Choi will be of interest. Direct link here: www.omu.ac.jp/lit/geo/asse... #EARCAG

This is happening this week on 6-Nov at 4 pm at LSE, a book launch seminar for People-led Development in Hanoi (Routledge, 2026). For more details, see below 👇

A compulsory mix - coffee, water, fruit and notebook - for attending academic workshops. Enjoying the two-day workshop on “Creative methods in uncertainty times” in Basel organised by @julieren.bsky.social and her team

New LSE Geography seminar with the Urban Salon on 6-Nov, 4pm, featuring Hoai Anh Tran (Malmö University) presenting her new book, "People-led Development" in Hanoi, w/ discussants, Hanh-An Trinh and @maranogueira.bsky.social. Event details and registration on this page: www.lse.ac.uk/events/peopl...

New vacancy alert! The Department of Geography and Environment at LSE, in partnership with the LSE Global School of Sustainability, is inviting applications for a new position, Assistant Professor in Biodiversity Economics. Deadline: 26-10-2025. More info here: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

New publication in @antipodeonline.bsky.social! “Working-in-Commons in the Middle of Precarity” revisits 1970s Nangok, Seoul, and explores poor women’s everyday commoning in 1970s Nangok, Seoul, conveying a story of solidarity, survival & imagination 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

LSE Geography & Environment is recruiting: Assistant Professor and Associate Professor in Urban Planning. Expertise in sustainable cities, planning regulation, or planning law is especially welcome. For more info, pls visit here 👉 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... #LSE #UrbanPlanning #AcademicJobs

Welcome to 400+ new students joining LSE Geography & Environment! 🎉 We began the year with our Welcome Induction & a staff start-of-year meeting. Looking forward to an inspiring year ahead 🌍✨ 📸 #LSEGeography #Community #partoflse

Live now in Boston hosted by @buoncities.bsky.social. It was a pleasure to discuss this talk by Dr Youjeong Oh on "Development, Dispossession, and Desires in Jeju" today, 18 Sep. 2025. Link to the event here: www.bu.edu/ioc/events/e...

🚨 Just published in Urban Studies, Vol 62, Issue 10! Together with Yi Jin, I theorise entrepreneurial neo-managerialism in China’s urban governance. In Luzhou’s shantytown redevelopment, we observe how the local state both redistributes and accumulates—balancing legitimacy and growth.

Call for Trustees! @urbanstudiesfoundation.org is recruiting new Trustees to join its Board and play a crucial role in guiding the Foundation's grant-making & advancing urban studies worldwide. Link: www.urbanstudiesfoundation.org/2025/06/13/t... As a former trustee (2016-23), highly recommended!

A joyful reunion with @LSEGeography alumni from 30+ years ago! Their bond with LSE and our department remains strong—what a delight to see. Grateful to President Larry Kramer for joining us too. #LSEGeography #LSEAlumni #partoflse

📅 Join me and @lorettaclees.bsky.social for her #urbansalon talk on Developing an Anti-Displacement Tool for the City of Louisville, Kentucky, in the US on 20 June, Friday, 4pm (UK time) 📍In person registration: zurl.co/6HqTS 📍 online registration: zurl.co/Hbs5b

The Urbanising Dynamics of Global China, a book edition Good to see the release of this copy, a republication edition of our journal special issue with the same title: w/ Yimin Zhao and Sin Yee Koh. It was a pleasant surprise when Taylor & Francis reached out in mid-November 2024 with a proposal…

Happening on 27-May. International Symposium on 70 Years since the #Bandung Conference, which I'm co-organising w/ Prof Bingchun Meng @lsemedia.bsky.social as part of LSE Southeast Asia Centre Inter-Asia Seminar Series. Fantastic speaker line-up and hybrid. Details: www.lse.ac.uk/seac/events/...

A talk not to miss with @lorettaclees.bsky.social (Director of @buoncities.bsky.social and Visiting Professor, LSE Department of Geography and Environment), discussing her latest work on anti-displacement toolkit. On 20-June, 4pm, hybrid. Part of the Urban Salon. Link: www.lse.ac.uk/geography-an...

UK REF recently published a list of research fellowships demonstrating research independence for the REF 2029 volume measure, and the list seems very useful for any early/mid-career scholar who's seeking a research fellowship. Link here: 2029.ref.ac.uk/publication/...

In memory and honour of the late C.P.Pow, previously at NUS Geography and a former trustee of the Urban Studies Foundation. I was fortunate to have worked with him and remember him fondly. Really happy to see the release of this collection. May he rest in peace.

This was one of the highly appreciated schemes I enjoyed overseeing during my USF trustee time. Highly recommended for urban scholars from the global South. Interested prospective applicants are welcome to approach as well.

Very much honoured to have been elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences acss.org.uk/news/the-aca...

Come and work with us @LSEGeography - Assistant Professor in Urban Environmental Geography. Further details here: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Redirect.asp... Deadline: 6 April 2025

Happening right now and a full house! Happy and honoured to be invited as a discussant to discuss Governing Urban Development in China by Fulong Wu and Fangzhu Zhang

Looking forward to the launch of this book, 'Governing Urban Development in China: Critical Urban Studies', authored by Fulong Wu and Fangzhu Zhang at the Bartlett School of Planning, UCL on 19 March, 5pmz. More info here: www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pla...

🏆 We're 2nd in the world for Geography, again(!) in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025. What an achievement that reflects the dedication, innovation and excellence of our research and education action! zurl.co/DlpBZ

I am excited to share that in 2025, the Department of Geography and Environment, LSE, will mark the 130th anniversary of LSE and of Geography being taught at LSE. You can learn more about our history and how to get involved here: www.lse.ac.uk/geography-an... #partofLSE #GY130years

From the secrets of the universe to socio-economic impact: the power of big science, a @LSEGeography public lecture by MarkThomson, Director-General Designate of CERN, and responded by Riccardo Crescenzi & Sarah Sharples. Chaired by LSE President, Larry Kramer www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...

What better way to conclude February? It's good to have my hands on a physical copy of The Political Economy of Megaprojects in Asia www.routledge.com/The-Politica... You can download Chapter 1 Introduction as open access

New vacancy: LSE Geography recruiting Assistant Prof in Urban Environmental Geography w/ expertise in any of the following: urban political ecology; climate urbanism; Black geographies/ecologies; and/or environmental inequalities and justice. Details here: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

First post on bsky! Delighted to find my paper coauthored with @hyunshin.bsky.social was published online by @urbanstudiesonline.com on the first day of the year of snake! Hope it to be a good start.

New student contributions on my teaching blog on urban Asia A little before the Covid-19 pandemic, I experimented with blogs as a form of student assessments. Some of the exemplary ones are published here. Read more here: https://urbanasia.blog

Pleased to share the news that the publisher proofs for The Political Economy of Megaprojects in Asia: State Power, Land Control, Financial Flows, and Dispossession were checked, and the edited book (w/ Dong-Wan Gimm) is coming soon in Feb 2025. More details here: urbancommune.net?p=3145

Great to see that my chapter, "The Political Economy of Mega-Events as Spectacles in the Global East", for this volume, "Political Economy of the Tokyo Olympics" (2023, Routledge) can now be accessed via LSE Research Online. Download link here: eprints.lse.ac.uk/125023/

Good bye to 2024 and all the best to 2025. Some of the highlights of 2024 in the Department of Geography and Environment at LSE. Warning: This is a very subjective view...

New hiring by the LSE Department of Geography and Environment! Assistant Professor (Education) in Environmental Economics and Policy. Application deadline: 16 February 2025. See here for more details: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

"lower-income renter households continue to bear the brunt of the affordability crisis...In 2023, lower-income renters (<$30k) dedicated a staggering 80% of their household incomes to rent and utilities, compared to 60% in 2001 and 68% in 2019." From @airbrycki.bsky.social @harvard-jchs.bsky.social.

This vacancy at LSE Sociology may be of interest to early career urban scholars. Looking for urban sociologist who can demonstrate expertise in the social and spatial life of the city, and how planning and/or design impacts urban life. Deadline; 19 January 2025

Looking forward to reading this during the winter break. Congrats to @jamiedoucette.bsky.social

For academics and scholars outside of Korea: statement to sign about no confidence in President Yoon, thus requesting his resignation (651 have signed so far, as of 6 Dec 2024, 7.50 PM US time). English translation can be found in threads, done by @jamiedoucette.bsky.social

Recently, I was surprised that one of the journal special issues I co-edited, “The urbanising dynamics of global China” from Urban Geography (www.tandfonline.com/toc/rurb20/4...), was chosen by T&F for its republication as a book as part of their republication program. 2b released early 2025. ToC 👇

Martial law in South Korea in the 21st century? After chairing an event, I noticed several calls on my mobile. Then, I checked my email and saw this message, mentioning South Korea & martial law. I was confused, as I simply couldn't associate South Korea with martial law in the 21st century.

Dark money means a darker city, on multiple levels. This new report from Transparency International is extraordinary: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

⏰Reminder to apply to the TIBG Editorial Board! We are especially keen to receive applications from those working in historical geography, sustainable development, quantitative methods, geopolitics, Africa & Latin America. Deadline: 4 December www.rgs.org/about-us/our...

🙌🙌🏼🙌🏾Come join us at Durham Geography! 2 permanent Asst Prof positions in human geog, with focus on nature, climate change, sustainable & just futures . Please share with your networks! Closing date 12 Jan 2025. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...