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Professor at the London School of Economics (LSE). Head of the Department of Geography & Environment. #UrbanPoliticalEconomy #Gentrification #Housing #SpeculativeUrbanisation #AsianUrbanisms #Megaevents #Megaprojects Personal web: https://urbancommune.net .. more

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Hyun Song Shin is a South Korean economic theorist and financial economist who focuses on global games. He has been the Economic Adviser and Head of Research of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) since May 1, 2014. .. more

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Hyun Bang Shin @hyunshin.bsky.social · Apr 1

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

The Academy of Social Sciences welcomes 64 leading social scientists to its Fellowship – Academy of Social Sciences

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Hyun Bang Shin @hyunshin.bsky.social · 21h

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

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Hyun Bang Shin @hyunshin.bsky.social · 13d

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

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Hyun Bang Shin @hyunshin.bsky.social · 22d

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...

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Hyun Bang Shin @hyunshin.bsky.social · Jul 21

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...

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Hyun Bang Shin @hyunshin.bsky.social · Jul 21

🚨 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.

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...

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Hyun Bang Shin @hyunshin.bsky.social · Jul 16

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!

Hyun Bang Shin @hyunshin.bsky.social · Jun 25

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

Hyun Bang Shin @hyunshin.bsky.social · Jun 2

Thanks a lot, Karen

Hyun Bang Shin @hyunshin.bsky.social · May 31

w/ @yiminzhao.bsky.social and Sin Yee Koh

Hyun Bang Shin @hyunshin.bsky.social · May 31

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…

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 to publish the above journal special issue papers as an edited volume. They had an editorial team that worked on the "Routledge Special Issues as Books programme", which seems to be actively looking for promising journal special issues that can be turned into an edited volume for wider audience reach.

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Hyun Bang Shin @hyunshin.bsky.social · May 24

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/...

International Symposium on 70 Years Since the Bandung Conference

Event exploring the legacies of the 1995 Bandung Conference, third-world internationalism

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Hyun Bang Shin @hyunshin.bsky.social · May 18

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/...

Research Fellowships demonstrating research independence for REF 2029 volume measure – REF 2029icon-printer

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Hyun Bang Shin @hyunshin.bsky.social · Apr 19

Sadly he passed away a while ago. Here is the formal announcement: fass.nus.edu.sg/geog/wp-cont...

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Hyun Bang Shin @hyunshin.bsky.social · Apr 18

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.

Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · Apr 16

📚 C.P. Pow: selected essays—new USF book release! 📚

The USF is proud to publish a collection of ten key papers by the late C.P. Pow—celebrating his contributions to urban studies and his role as a former USF Trustee.

🔗 Download the book here: www.urbanstudiesfoundation.org/2025/04/15/c...

C.P. Pow: selected essays (cover and quote)

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Reposted by Hyun S. Shin, Roger Keil, Beth Perry , and 6 more Hyun S. Shin, Roger Keil, Beth Perry, Margreet Zwarteveen, Jennifer Clark, Patrick Rérat, Raquel Rolnik, İan Mell, Evert Meijers

Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · Apr 15

📣 USF International Fellowships 2025 - apply now!

This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South.

Read more & apply here: urbanstudiesfoundation.org/funding/inte...

Deadline 16th July 2025

USF International Fellowships 2025 - deadline 16th July 2025

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · Apr 16

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Hyun Bang Shin @hyunshin.bsky.social · Apr 16

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.

Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · Apr 15

Hyun Bang Shin @hyunshin.bsky.social · Apr 2

And, here's the @LSEnews announcement with my quote: www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-...

LSE academics elected as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences

Emeritus Professor Hartley Dean and Professor Hyun Bang Shin are among 64 distinguished Fellows who have been elected to the Academy this spring.

www.lse.ac.uk

Hyun Bang Shin @hyunshin.bsky.social · Mar 27

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

Hyun Bang Shin @hyunshin.bsky.social · Mar 19

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

Hyun Bang Shin @hyunshin.bsky.social · Mar 12

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...

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Hyun Bang Shin @hyunshin.bsky.social · Mar 12

🏆 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!

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Hyun Bang Shin @hyunshin.bsky.social · Mar 6

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

Geography at 130

Celebrating 130 years of Geography at LSE.

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Hyun Bang Shin @hyunshin.bsky.social · Mar 3

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/...

Hyun Bang Shin @hyunshin.bsky.social · Mar 3

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

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Hyun Bang Shin @hyunshin.bsky.social · Feb 27

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/...

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Yi Jin @yjin-nj.bsky.social · Feb 7

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.

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Hyun Bang Shin @hyunshin.bsky.social · Jan 14

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

New student contributions on my teaching blog on urban Asia

A little before the Covid-19 pandemic, I experimented with a new mode of teaching assessments that involved the writing of an academically informed but public-facing blogs. Some of the exemplary pieces have been released on this teaching blog, The site, is designed for educational purpose to share primarily the writings of students who carry out research on and study urban Asia at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Hyun Bang Shin @hyunshin.bsky.social · Jan 3

Publisher's book page can be found here: www.routledge.com/The-Politica...

The Political Economy of Megaprojects in Asia: State Power, Land Control, Financial Flows, and Dispossession

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of how the developmental goals of Asian states are reflected in large-scale projects and how various actors both realize and challenge these goals. The rise o...