Professor Stephen Graham Professor of Cities & Society, Global Urban Research Unit, Newcastle University's School of Architecture, Planning & Landscape

Stephen Graham is an academic and author who researches cities and urban life. He is Professor of Cities and Society at the Global Urban Research Unit and is based in Newcastle University’s School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape.

Professor Graham has a background in Geography, Planning and the Sociology of Technology. His research centres, in particular, on:
Vertical aspects of cities and urban life
Links between cities, technology and infrastructure
Urban aspects of surveillance
The mediation of urban life by digital technologies; and
Links between security, militarisation and urban life.

Writing, publishing and lecturing across many countries and a variety of disciplines, Professor Graham has been Visiting Professor at MIT and NYU, amongst other institutions. The author, editor or co-author of seven major books, his work has been translated into eighteen languages.

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/apl/staff/profile/steve.graham