Hyun Bang Shin is Associate Professor of Geography and Urban Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His main research interests lie in the critical analysis of the political economic dynamics of urban (re-) development. He has written widely on Asian urbanisation, speculative urbanism, the politics of displacement and urban spectacles.
He was the recipient of the STICERD/LSE Annual Fund New Researcher Award in 2009, which funded his two-year research (May 2009 - July 2011) on the socio-spatial implications of the 2010 Asian Summer Games in Guangzhou, China. He also co-organised workshops in London and Santiago de Chile (together with Lees, López-Morales and Herzer) on “Towards an Emerging Geography of Gentrification in the Global South”. These workshops were part of the Urban Studies Seminar Series (2011-2012),funded by the Urban Studies Foundation and the Urban Studies journal. He has co-edited Global Gentrifications: Uneven Development and Displacement (Policy Press, 2015), and is currently working on a number of book projects including a monograph Making China Urban (Routledge, 2016), a co-authored monograph (with Lees and López-Morales) Planetary Gentrification (Polity, 2015), and a co-edited volume (with Chen and Saito) Contesting Urban Space in East Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).