Hyun Bang Shin
@hyunshin.bsky.social
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
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
November 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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
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
October 24, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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...
October 15, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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/...
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/...
October 15, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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/...
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/...
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
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
October 10, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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
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
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#LSEGeography #Community #partoflse
September 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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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#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...
September 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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...
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!
July 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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
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
June 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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
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
📍In person registration: zurl.co/6HqTS
📍 online registration: zurl.co/Hbs5b
June 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
📅 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
📍In person registration: zurl.co/6HqTS
📍 online registration: zurl.co/Hbs5b
w/ @yiminzhao.bsky.social and Sin Yee Koh
May 31, 2025 at 10:08 PM
w/ @yiminzhao.bsky.social and Sin Yee Koh
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...
May 24, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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...
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
March 27, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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
March 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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...
March 12, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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
What an achievement that reflects the dedication, innovation and excellence of our research and education action!
zurl.co/DlpBZ
March 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
🏆 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
What an achievement that reflects the dedication, innovation and excellence of our research and education action!
zurl.co/DlpBZ
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/...
March 3, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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
March 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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/...
February 27, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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/...
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
January 3, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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
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...
December 27, 2024 at 5:44 PM
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...
Looking forward to reading this during the winter break. Congrats to @jamiedoucette.bsky.social
December 10, 2024 at 8:42 AM
Looking forward to reading this during the winter break. Congrats to @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 👇
December 6, 2024 at 6:01 PM
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.
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.
December 3, 2024 at 8:52 PM
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.
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.
A moment of joy when a former doctoral student returns for lunch together and shares updates on their work and life, as they settle down in a university as assistant professor. With @yoonaihan.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social
November 27, 2024 at 8:16 AM
A moment of joy when a former doctoral student returns for lunch together and shares updates on their work and life, as they settle down in a university as assistant professor. With @yoonaihan.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social