Stephen Graham

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

Prof. Graham has an interdisciplinary background linking human geography, urbanism, and the sociology of technology. Since the early 1990s, he has 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. Translated into twenty languages, Prof. Graham’s work has been influential across a range of urban, technological, social, and political debates across the world.. His books include Splintering Urbanism; Telecommunications and the City  (both with Simon Marvin) and Disrupted Cities: When Infrastructures Fail and Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism. His latest book is Vertical: The City From Satellites to Bunkers.