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Cities under siege: the new military urbanism | 7 June 2010
Monday 7 June 2010 | 18:30-20:00
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
LSE Cities presents: Cities under siege: the new military urbanism
Speaker: professor Stephen Graham, professor of Cities and Society, Newcastle University
Respondent: Gareth Jones, senior lecturer in Geography, LSE
Chair: Fran Tonkiss, director, Cities Programme, LSE
Cities have become the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the slums of the global South to the wealthy financial centres of the West, Stephen Graham’s new book Cities Under Siege traces how political violence now operates through the sites, spaces, infrastructures and symbols of the world’s rapidly expanding metropolitan areas.
Free and open to the public. No RSVP necessary. Contact events@lse.ac.uk for additional information.
Speaker profiles
Stephen Graham
Stephen Graham is Professor of Cities and Society at Newcastle University, and previously taught at Durham and MIT, among other universities. His books include Cities, War and Terrorism, The Cybercities Reader, and (with Simon Marvin) Splintering Urbanism.