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Urban Futures research group

The notion of the ‘future’ provides a conceptual, analytical and methodological lens that allows us to question what cities are and how they work. We are particularly interested in examining how visions of urban futures in planning, governance, citizenship and everyday life are being imagined, contested and lived in by people across the world, learning from the lessons of the past.

We use this approach to address some of the most important challenges facing cities today in both the Global North and the Global South. Our research focuses on issues of security, liveability, health and inequality, and considers how emerging modes of governance and planning can promote more inclusive, sustainable, vibrant and playful cities.

Members

Majed Akhter

Senior Lecturer in Environment and Society

Umar Al Faruq

PhD student

Johan Andersson

Johan Andersson

Senior Lecturer in Human Geography

James Angel

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

Ivana Bevilacqua

PhD student

Andrew Brooks

Senior Lecturer in Development and Environment

Robert Cowley

Robert Cowley

Lecturer in Sustainable Cities

Ruth Craggs

Reader in Political and Historical Geography

Fraser Curry

Fraser Curry

PhD student

Luke Dickens

Senior Lecturer

David Green

Professor of Historical Geography

Philip Hubbard

Professor of Urban Studies

Rachel Jones

PhD student

Katie Meehan

Reader in Environment and Society

Daanish Mustafa

Daanish Mustafa

Professor in Critical Geography

Rhian Scott

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Isobel Ward

PhD student

London - small flats 2018 price submission

No space like home: the geography of micro-apartments in London

Studying micro-apartments and their impact on affordable homes and people's living spaces in London.

Berlin's queer archipelago: Landscape, sexuality, and nightlife
Andersson, J., 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: Transactions of the institute of british geographers. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12585
Africa’s Next Debt Crisis: A Relational Comparison of Chinese and Western Lending to Zambia
Gort, J. & Brooks, A., 25 Nov 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: Antipode: a radical journal of geography. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
We Still Fight in the Dark: Evaluation Findings, Reflections, and Lessons for Policy & Practice
McIlwaine, C., Sreenan, N., Cal Angrisani, C., Peppl, R. & Gomes, I. M., 28 Oct 2022, London: King's College London. 43 p. Research output: Book/Report › Report
Digital Storytelling among Women Artists Resisting Violence in Mare, Rio de Janeiro: Building a Memory Collection for the Museum of the Person
McIlwaine, C., Coelho Resende, N., Rizzini Ansari, M., Gonçalves Leal, J., Vieira, F., Dionisio, A. & Heritage, P., 17 Oct 2022, London: King's College London. 56 p. Research output: Book/Report › Report
Quantifying state-led gentrification in London: using linked consumer and administrative records to trace displacement from council estates
Reades, J., Lees, L., Hubbard, P. & Lansley, G., 12 Oct 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: Environment and Planning A. 24 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Delineating urban functional zones using mobile phone data: A case study of cross-boundary integration in Shenzhen-Dongguan-Huizhou area
Zhang, B., Zhong, C., Gao, Q., Shabrina, Z. & Tu, W., 1 Dec 2022, In: Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. 98, p. 101872 101872. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2022.101872
Body Territory: Mapping women's resistance to violence in the favelas of Mare, Rio de Janeiro
Heimer, R., Rizzini Ansari, M., Gonçalves Leal, J., Dionisio, A., Vieira, F., Trindade, N. & McIlwaine, C., 14 Aug 2022, London: King's College London. 48 p. Research output: Book/Report › Report › peer-review
The impacts of world cultural heritage site designation and heritage tourism on community livelihoods: A Chinese case study
Liu, Y., Wang, Y., Dupre, K. & McIlwaine, C., Jul 2022, In: Tourism Management Perspectives. 43, 100994. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tmp.2022.100994
Dignity and Resistance
McIlwaine, C., Peppl, R. & Santos, P., 12 May 2022, 17 p. London : King's College London. Research output: Other contribution
Latin London: Negotiating Invisibility among Latin Americans in London
McIlwaine, C., 2015, London the Promised Land Revisited. Kershen, A. (ed.). Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., p. 167-186 Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

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Contact us

Urban Futures chair:

philip.hubbard@kcl.ac.uk