Welcome to 400+ new students joining LSE Geography & Environment! π We began the year with our Welcome Induction & a staff start-of-year meeting. Looking forward to an inspiring year ahead πβ¨
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#LSEGeography #Community #partoflse
27.09.2025 14:16 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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...
18.09.2025 21:12 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1
Revisiting urban governance in China: The manifestation of entrepreneurial neo-managerialism in shantytown redevelopment in Luzhou - Yi Jin, Hyun Bang Shin, 2025
Recently, Chinaβs central government initiated a series of social policies to alleviate social disparities, providing opportunities to revisit state entrepreneu...
π¨ Just published in Urban Studies, Vol 62, Issue 10!
Together with Yi Jin, I theorise entrepreneurial neo-managerialism in Chinaβs urban governance.
In Luzhouβs shantytown redevelopment, we observe how the local state both redistributes and accumulatesβbalancing legitimacy and growth.
21.07.2025 07:49 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
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!
16.07.2025 14:22 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A joyful reunion with @LSEGeography alumni from 30+ years ago!
Their bond with LSE and our department remains strongβwhat a delight to see.
Grateful to President Larry Kramer for joining us too.
#LSEGeography #LSEAlumni #partoflse
25.06.2025 13:54 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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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)
πIn person registration: zurl.co/6HqTS
π online registration: zurl.co/Hbs5b
18.06.2025 15:40 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Thanks a lot, Karen
02.06.2025 12:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
w/ @yiminzhao.bsky.social and Sin Yee Koh
31.05.2025 22:08 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
International Symposium on 70 Years Since the Bandung Conference
Event exploring the legacies of the 1995 Bandung Conference, third-world internationalism
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/...
24.05.2025 10:09 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
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...
24.05.2025 09:58 β π 5 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Research Fellowships demonstrating research independence for REF 2029 volume measureΒ β REF 2029icon-printer
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/...
18.05.2025 10:26 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Sadly he passed away a while ago. Here is the formal announcement: fass.nus.edu.sg/geog/wp-cont...
19.04.2025 08:16 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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.
18.04.2025 07:09 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
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.
16.04.2025 09:36 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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
27.03.2025 07:22 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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...
12.03.2025 21:03 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
π 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
12.03.2025 17:35 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Geography at 130
Celebrating 130 years of Geography at LSE.
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
06.03.2025 11:13 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
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
03.03.2025 15:15 β π 10 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
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/...
27.02.2025 09:26 β π 16 π 12 π¬ 0 π 0
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.
07.02.2025 07:18 β π 4 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
housing + environmental health.
Asst. Professor of urban planning @gsd.harvard.edu
Formerly OECD, Paris planning, AdβA ~
i write i teach i build i deconstruct
www.magdamaaoui.com
currently working on hospitals x housing, any lead/personal story welcome
Assistant Professor at the University of Birmingham
Technological Change; Digitalisation; Innovation; International Economics
First gen
Political ecology I Agrarian studies I Economic anthropology
Teaching at LSE.
Human Geography, PhD candidate FU Berlin | Interested in mobilities, infrastructure, public space, and more-than-human relations. she/her.
Author, 'When China Rules the World', columnist, broadcaster, speaker. Chair of Harinder Veriah Trust
Geographer. Senior Researcher @PRIOresearch . Researching geographies of migration and im/mobilities, Asia. PhD @NUSgeog
Researcher at Stockholm Uni SOFI (@sofi.su.se) and IFFS (@futures-studies.bsky.social). Econ Geo PhD from LSE. Interested in urban economics and regional science, peer and neighbourhood effects.
https://sites.google.com/view/andreasdiemer
Dreaming to be somewhere by the sea.
Urbanist, reseacher, lecturer in Global Urbanism at @uofgussp.bsky.social
justcitymed.org
Sociologist interested in wealth inequality, housing, and class analysis. Heidelberg University & London School of Economics https://waitkus.github.io/
Assistant Professor, ETH ZΓΌrich, follow us @spurethz.bsky.socialβ¬. I am researching and teaching policy and planning in and of the urban
Senior Research Fellow and Co-Chair Sustainable Housing Design (ASUTUT) research group
CUNY Graduate Center political science, sociology, Center for Urban Research. Race, ethnicity, immigration, urban politics, political geography and demography, New York in comparative perspective. Bicyclist, cook, sailor, explorer. Brooklynite.
Lecturer (Asst. Prof.) @UofGlasgow, researching and posting about China, higher education, Sino-African engagement, academic freedom.
This project extends our existing research on homes and homemaking, focused on small homes in English cities PI: Phil Hubbard; CO-Is: Katherine Brickell, Helen Carr, Jon Reades, Eleanor Wilkinson with Ella Harris, Iliana Ortega Alcazar and Ruth Neville
Researcher & lecturer at CityU Hong Kong. PhD from Copenhagen & UEA. I study urban planning, property, citizenship, and social movements.
Coordenador na Fundação Rosa Luxemburgo, mestre e doutorando na FAUUSP, autor dos livros Passe Livre: as possibilidades da Tarifa Zero contra a distopia da Uberização (2019) e Sem Catraca: da utopia à realidade da Tarifa Zero (2024).
Urban geographer @TUDelft | #Cities #Inequality #Economic #Segregation #Modelling | @erc-segue.bsky.social | @rbanism.bsky.social | clementinecttn.github.io | π«π·π¬π§π³π±πΏπΌ
Prof of urban policy and planning, CUNY Hunter College (not implicated in my posts). Currently thinking about how govt policy can discourage the private extraction of land rent. Proud supply skeptic.
Assistant Professor, University of Manchester @OfficialUoM Urban Economics | Real Estate Economics | India
PhD on the geopolitics of AI infrastructure at the Oxford Internet Institute // Mapping data centres + GPUs with the Oxford-Aalto DIESL lab // Previously AI ethics @GoogleDeepMind (they/them)
https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/profiles/boxi-wu/
