Caroline is a non-fiction writer based in London who writes about cities all over the world. She is interested in how urban landscapes are made and how the dynamics of spatial justice operate.
About me
My writing explores how cities work, how they could work better and more fairly for everyone, as well as how cities live in other cities – as tapestries of elsewhere – when migrants make homes in new places.
Inspired by travel, I like to think, write and research on the move: exploring new places, making drawings and photographs combined with close ethnographic observation and walking to absorb fine-grained detail of places and people.
My writing distils decades of reading, teaching and research drawing on sociology, anthropology and geography. I am an Honorary Professor in Geography at Queen Mary, University of London and Professor Emerita at Goldsmiths University of London.
As the Director of the British Academy’s Urban Infrastructures of Well Being and Cities and Infrastructures programmes (2017-2022) I worked alongside research projects on climate change, sustainability, energy, water, building, solid waste and refugee movements in thirty-three cities in twenty countries across the global south. These projects combined the expertise of engineers, architects, climate change and social scientists as well as arts and humanities, extending the usual disciplinary silos.
Books
My back catalogue is a long list of articles written for scholarly journals, edited collections crafted collaboratively with colleagues, as well as single-authored academic books.
This website connects you to the books I have written for broader audiences:
BLOGS: Urban encounters
BLOGS: Urban Wastelands: exploring China's Belt and Road by train
