People

Stephen Graham

Stephen Graham is Professor of Cities and Society at Newcastle University's School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape. 

He has an interdisciplinary background linking human geography, urbanism and the sociology of technology. Since the early 1990s Prof. Graham has used this foundation to develop critical perspectives addressing how cities are being transformed through remarkable changes in infrastructure, mobility, digital media, surveillance, security, militarism and verticality. His books include Splintering Urbanism; Telecommunications and the City (both with Simon Marvin);  The Cybercities Reader; Cities, War and Terrorism; Disrupted Cities: When Infrastructures Fail; and Infrastructural Lives (with Colin McFarlane). Prof Graham’s 2011 book Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism was nominated for the Orwell Prize in political writing and was the Guardian’s book of the week. His new book, Vertical: The City From Satellites to Bunkers (Verso), was published in November 2016. Another Guardian book of the week, it was in the books of the year lists of both the FT and the Observer.  Prof. Graham's research on security and military themes centre on a range of themes including: political violence targeting cities and systems of urban infrastructure; the impact of urbanisation on theorisation of war and political violence; urban securitisation; and military technoscience, urban militarisation and urban surveillance.