Hyun Bang Shin

Please join me in this exciting Urban Salon event on 10 March at 4pm @lsegeography.bsky.social, featuring @nitin-bathla.bsky.social who's presenting his latest book, "Cinema and the City in the Era of Planetary Urbanisation". For details and registration, visit here: www.lse.ac.uk/geography-an...

A @lsegeography.bsky.social brownie to kick start a day!

Also excited to have discussants, @myriageorgiou.bsky.social (LSE) and Mónica Degen (Brunel)

Please join me in this exciting Urban Salon event on 10 March at 4pm @lsegeography.bsky.social, featuring @nitin-bathla.bsky.social who's presenting his latest book, "Cinema and the City in the Era of Planetary Urbanisation". For details and registration, visit here: www.lse.ac.uk/geography-an...

Prof Aramata is going to share her insights into "Human Geography of Japan: History and Current Situation". Today at 11 am in Room 1.07, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE

ARAMATA Miyo | Meiji.net:Meiji University Research fields: Human geography Research themes: Urban planning project and related ideas in France, Mega-events and urban and regional development in the post-growth era, landscape formation of colo...

Today at 11 am, looking forward to hosting Prof Miyo Aramata, Professor in the Department of History and Geography at the School of Arts and Letters, Meiji University, Japan (Profile here: english-meiji.net/articles/wri...), and currently Visiting Professor @lsegeography.bsky.social

Can natural capital be replaced? How the weak versus strong sustainability divide will shape our common future | Eric Neumayer Eric Neumayer will discuss how the question of whether natural capital can be substituted by other forms of capital lies at the heart of the controversy.

📢 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

It's a pleasure to welcome Prof Don Mitchell to give a seminar in @lsegeography.bsky.social on 2 Feb, discussing today’s gig economy and “independent contractor” model of urban labour growing out of earlier agricultural labour struggles. If you'd like to attend, pls email geog.research[at]lse.ac.uk

Here is the line-up for the Human Geography seminar series in @lsegeography.bsky.social for the winter term this year. We start with @kbrickell.bsky.social on 22-January, followed by our very own Siddharth Menon on 5-Feb.

Yesterday saw @lsegeography.bsky.social's Away Day. Speed-date-style introductions helped learn more about each other’s work, followed by three sessions reflecting on how we operate as a department and how we can improve (plus a quiz after lunch). It was great to reconnect after the winter break

Can natural capital be replaced? How the weak versus strong sustainability divide will shape our common future | Eric Neumayer Eric Neumayer will discuss how the question of whether natural capital can be substituted by other forms of capital lies at the heart of the controversy.

📢 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 and the Fudan Institute for Global Public Policy. This course builds on my research on China, examining how China’s urbanisation as one of the fastest and most consequential remakings of space in modern history shapes governance, finance, inequality and environmental risk across urban, regional and global scales.

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

The issue of the journal, Space, Society and Geographical Thought, where this review appears can be found here: www.omu.ac.jp/lit/geo/info...

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/...

Working‐in‐Commons in the Middle of Precarity: The Legacy of the Urban Commons Movement of South Korea in the 1970s This article explores the endogenous characteristics of commons within the frameworks of precarity and commons through the urban commons movement in 1970s South Korea. During Korea's compressed capit....

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 🌍✨
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#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...

Revisiting urban governance in China: The manifestation of entrepreneurial neo-managerialism in shantytown redevelopment in Luzhou - Yi Jin, Hyun Bang Shin, 2025 Recently, China’s central government initiated a series of social policies to alleviate social disparities, providing opportunities to revisit state entrepreneu...

Full paper: doi.org/10.1177/0042...
#UrbanStudies #China #Governance #Housing #Statecraft

Revisiting urban governance in China: The manifestation of entrepreneurial neo-managerialism in shantytown redevelopment in Luzhou - Yi Jin, Hyun Bang Shin, 2025 Recently, China’s central government initiated a series of social policies to alleviate social disparities, providing opportunities to revisit state entrepreneu...

🚨 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