Vernacular Regeneration

Aidan Mosselson is currently a Newton International Fellow, based at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, University of Sheffield. He completed his PhD in Social Geography at University College London in 2015 and was Associate Lecturer in the Sociology Department at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He held a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Johannesburg and the Gauteng City-Region Observatory. In 2017, he was awarded an International Fellowship by the Urban Studies Foundation, which supported a stint as a Visiting Fellow at LSE Cities.

• 1. Thinking with and through Johannesburg 2. An overburdened process: the competing agendas, imperatives and outcomes of inner-city regeneration 3. The contradictory praxis of regeneration 4. Urban management and security: private policing, atmospheres of control and everyday practices 5. Ambiguous experiences of regeneration: spatial capital, agency and living in-between 6. The space that regeneration makes: regulation, security and everyday life 7. Conclusion: towards a vernacular theorisation of urban change