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Dr Giulia Torino

Assistant Professor of Urban Sociology

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Giulia Torino is an urbanist working at the intersections of global displacement, racialisation, and urbanisation. Her research explores cities and extended urban margins not just as spaces of unsettlement, extraction, and bordering but also as laboratories of collective care, imagination, and relational world-making. Trained as an architect, urban designer, and social scientist, she brings interdisciplinary perspectives to the study of cities, urbanisation, and infrastructures, with a particular interest in Southern urbanisms. Before joining LSE, she was Assistant Professor of Urban Geography at King’s College London (2023-25), Junior Research Fellow in Urban Studies at the University of Cambridge (2021-23), Visiting Researcher at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (2017-19) and Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá (2014), and worked for institutions like the New York City Department of City Planning and Amnesty International. She holds a PhD (2021) from the University of Cambridge.

Key expertise: Urbanisation, Migration, Inequality, Social justice, Ethnography