School of Geography, University of Leeds, UK

Paul Waley is Senior Lecturer at the School of Geography University of Leeds.  PhD at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London with a thesis titled “Symbolic Space and Urban Change in the Japanese City: The Edo-Tokyo Periphery, 1800-1930″. His research interests grow out of a strong focus on specific geographic settings both in East Asia and South East Europe. Tokyo has provided the context for much of his research, but he has also worked in Taipei and in Trieste and Belgrade. He is currently involved in projects that seek to place Tokyo in a wider context of East Asian urbanism and that explore of the role of traditional markets in contributing to socially just cities in Europe. He is increasingly interested in comparative urbanism as a broad framework. In relation to Contested Cities he is carrying out research on residential and commercial gentrification and neoliberal urbanism.

Latest publications

2013 [– with Sara González]
Traditional Retail Markets: The New Gentrification Frontier? Antipode. Early view doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2012.01040  Link. PDF

2013
Pencilling Tokyo into the map of neoliberal urbanism, Cities, 32, pp.43-50. doi: 10.1016/j.cities.2013.02.005 Link. PDF

2013
Placing Tokyo in Time and Space, JOURNAL OF URBAN HISTORY, 39, pp.331-335. doi: 10.1177/0096144212465403 Link. PDF

2012
ROPPONGI CROSSING: The Demise of a Tokyo Nightclub District and the Reshaping of a Global City, PACIFIC AFFAIRS, 85, pp.414-416. Link.

2012
Reconstructing Kobe: The Geography of Crisis and Opportunity, URBAN STUDIES, 49, pp.1151-1153. doi: 10.1177/0042098011435913 Link. PDF