Hyun Bang Shin
@hyunshin.bsky.social
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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
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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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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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🚨 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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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!
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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
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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)

📍In person registration: zurl.co/6HqTS
📍 online registration: zurl.co/Hbs5b
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Thanks a lot, Karen
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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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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...
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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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Sadly he passed away a while ago. Here is the formal announcement: fass.nus.edu.sg/geog/wp-cont...
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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.
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📚 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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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.
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📣 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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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
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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
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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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🏆 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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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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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/...
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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