Michael Keith is Director of the PEAK Urban Research programme. Until October 2019, he was the Director of the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford (seconded until 2024). He was until 2021 co-ordinator of Urban Transformations (The Economic and Social Research Council portfolio of investments and research on cities), and is the Co-Director of the Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities. He is also Co-Investigator of the Open City research project.
His research focuses on migration related processes of urban change. His most recent works include ‘Urban transformations and public health in the emergent city’, and African Cities and Collaborative Futures, both published by Manchester University Press and the Unfinished Politics of Race, to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2022.
He has experience outside the academy working in the community and voluntary sector and as a politician for twenty years in the East End of London, leader of a London local authority and founder, chair and board member of a wide range of urban regeneration companies and public/private partnerships. He has also several decades experience in the voluntary sector, initially in organisations focusing on racism and the
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2021
Gómez, Jairo A.; Guan, ChengHe; Tripathy, Pratyush; Duque, Juan C.; Passos, Santiago; Keith, Michael; Liu, Jialin. 2021. Analyzing the Spatiotemporal Uncertainty in Urbanization Predictions, J. Remote Sens.13, no. 3: 512, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13030512
Guan, C., Song, J., Keith, M., Zhang, B., Akiyama, Y., Da, L., Shibasaki, R., & Sato, T. (2021), Seasonal variations of park visitor volume and park service area in Tokyo: A mixed-method approach combining big data and field observations, Journal of Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, Volume 58, 126973, ISSN 1618-8667, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2020.126973 (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1618866720307901)
Keith, M., & de Souza Santos, A. A. (eds) (2021) African cities and collaborative futures, Manchester, England: Manchester University Press
Incl. chapters:
– Introduction: Urban presence and uncertain futures in African cities (Michael Keith with Andreza de Souza Santos)
– ‘From an ‘infrastructural turn’ to the platform logics of logistics (Michael Keith with Andreza de Souza Santos)
2020
Garnett, E., Keith, M., Gidley, B., & Ahmed, N. (2020) Shared Devotions: space, faith and community in East London, Historic England
Guan, C., Keith, M., & Hong, A. (2020) Designing walkable cities and neighborhoods in the era of urban big data, Urban Planning International 01 Jan 2020, DOI:10.22217/upi.2019.389
Guan, C., Song, J., Keith, M., Akiyama, Y., Shibasaki, R., & Sato, T. (2020) Delineating urban park catchment areas using mobile phone data: A case study of Tokyo, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 81:101474-101474 Article number 101474 01 May 2020; doi: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2020.101474
Keith, M., & de Souza Santos, A. A. (eds) (2020) Urban transformations and public health in the emergent city, Manchester, England: Manchester University Press; Publication date: 25 Aug 2020
Incl. chapters:
– ‘Urban transformation and public health in future cities’ (pp1-35) and the conclusion
– ‘City DNA, public health and a new urban imaginary’ (pp198-212)
Keith, M., O’Clery, N., Parnell, S., & Revi, A. (2020), The future of the future city? The new urban sciences and a PEAK Urban interdisciplinary disposition, Cities Journal, 105 Article number 102820 29 Jun 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.102820
The future of the future city? The new urban sciences and a PEAK Urban interdisciplinary disposition
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Future Cities, New Economy, and Shared City Prosperity Driven by Technological Innovations
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2019
Keith, M. (2019) ‘Philosophies of Commensuration, Value and Worth in the Future City Rethinking the Interdisciplinary’, in Philosophy and the City Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Perspectives, Jacobs, Keith, Malpas, Jeff, (eds) pp. 217-233, Rowman and Littlefield, London and New York
2016
Ahmed, N., Garnett, J., Gidley, B., Harris, A., & Keith, M. (2016) Shifting markers of identity in East London’s diasporic religious spaces, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 39:2, 223-242,DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2016.1105993
COMPAS Communications
Michael Keith
COMPAS Communications
Michael Keith, Nicholas Simcik Arese & Andreza De Souza Santos
Michael Keith
Reports | September 2018
Reports | July 2018
Reports | September 2017
Reports | July 2017
Reports | March 2017
Reports | November 2016
Book Chapters | January 2015
Edited Books | February 2014
Edited Books | January 2014
Reports | January 2013
Journal Articles | January 2013
Journal Articles | January 2013
Book Chapters | January 2013
Book Chapters | January 2013
Book Chapters | January 2013
Book Chapters | January 2011
Journal Articles | January 2009
Book Chapters | January 2009
Journal Articles | January 2009
Book Chapters | January 2008
Book Chapters | January 2008
Journal Articles | January 2008
Journal Articles | January 2008
Sarah Spencer, Michael Keith and COMPAS Communications | 2011 – 2012
Michael Keith | 2009
Michael Keith, Mikal Mast, Rosaleen Cunningham, Bhawani Buswala and ChengHe Guan | 1 October 2017 - 31 December 2021
Michael Keith | 2006 – 2009
Michael Keith | 2010 - 2011
Michael Keith, Mikal Mast and Nathan Grassi | 2015 - 2019
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