Stephen Graham (academic)

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Stephen Graham FBA. [1] is a British scholar of cities and urban life. Since 2010, he has been Professor of Cities and Society [2] at Newcastle University's School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape. [3] A qualified urban planner, he has an interdisciplinary background in human geography, urbanism and the sociology of technology. A widely cited [4] author in contemporary urban studies and related fields, Graham’s work explores how cities and urban life are being reshaped by increased movement and mobility, intensifying social inequalities, the widespread application of digital technology, and the widening insecurities that characterise urban life. His most recent work has sought to rethink cities and urban life in fully three-dimensional ways that help to understand their increased vertical reach (both far above and far below ground level).

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Education and career

Graham graduated from Southampton University in 1986 with a Geography BSc. Between 1987 and 1989 he completed an M.Phil. in Urban Planning at Newcastle University. Moving into the professional world of urban policy and planning, he worked in spatial planning and local economic policy at Sheffield City Council between 1989 and 1992. Graham’s career as an academic began in 1992 when we took up a lectureship in urban planning at Newcastle University. His PhD, completed part-time in Science and Technology Studies at Manchester University, was awarded in 1995 and was titled Networking Cities: A Comparison of Urban Telecommunications Policies in the U.K. and France. Graham was appointed Professor of Urban Technology at Newcastle University in 2001. Between 2005 and 2010 he was Professor of Human Geography at the University of Durham, before returning to Newcastle University.

Graham was a Visiting Professor in MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning [5] between 1999 and 2000. He has also held visiting positions of the University of British Columbia, Goldsmiths College and New York University. In 2021 he is International Visiting Scholar at the Havens Wright Center for Social Justice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. [6]

Honours

In 2014 Graham was included in the International Bibliographical Centre’s list of 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century. In 2019, Graham was elected Fellow of the British Academy. That same year he was awarded as honorary Ph.D. by Aalborg University for “distinguished efforts in the field of urban studies.”

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  2. ↑ "Staff Profile - School of Architecture, Planning & Landscape - Newcastle University". www.ncl.ac.uk.
  3. ↑ "School of Architecture, Planning & Landscape". www.ncl.ac.uk.
  4. ↑ "Stephen Graham". scholar.google.co.uk.
  5. ↑ "MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning |". dusp.mit.edu.
  6. ↑ "The Havens Wright Center". The Havens Wright Center for Social Justice.
  7. ↑ "Telecommunications and the City: Electronic Spaces, Urban Places". Routledge & CRC Press.
  8. ↑ "Baskerville LIBRI". www.baskerville.it.
  9. ↑ "Splintering Urbanism: Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition". Routledge & CRC Press.
  10. ↑ "The Cybercities Reader". Routledge & CRC Press.
  11. ↑ "Cities, War, and Terrorism: Towards an Urban Geopolitics | Wiley". Wiley.com.
  12. ↑ "Disrupted Cities: When Infrastructure Fails". Routledge & CRC Press.
  13. ↑ Verso. www.versobooks.com. Verso Books. March 2010. ISBN   9781844673155.
  14. ↑ "Cidades sitiadas". Boitempo Editorial.
  15. ↑ "Villes sous contrôle - Stephen GRAHAM - Éditions la Découverte".
  16. ↑ "Kuşatılan Şehirler - Yeni Askeri Kentçilik | Ana Sayfa". NotaBene.
  17. ↑ "Infrastructural Lives: Urban Infrastructure in Context". Routledge & CRC Press.
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  19. ↑ "Dikey Dünya".
  20. ↑ https://chaeksesang.com/book/15197/?ckattempt=1
  21. ↑ "世界是垂直的：從人造衛星、摩天大樓到地底隧道，由分層空間垂直剖析都市中社會、政治的權力關係-城邦讀書花園網路書店".
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