We are delighted to welcome Stephen Ramos as the new Editor-in-Chief for the Regions and Cities Book Series. Stephen is a professor of urbanism in the College of Environment and Design at the University of Georgia. His research focuses on port cities, infrastructure, and logistics.
Stephen is an active member of the international planning history community, serving as Associate Editor of Planning Perspectives, the U.K.-based journal of the International Society of Planning History, for which he is also Vice President-Elect. Stephen’s first book, Dubai Amplified: The Engineering of a Port Geography (Ashgate, 2010) received wide acclaim for its contribution to infrastructure studies, and it continues to be an important reference for Gulf urban research.
As a doctoral student at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Stephen co-edited Infrastructure Sustainability and Design (Routledge, 2012) as part of the Zoftnass Program for Sustainable Infrastructure, and he also co-founded the journal New Geographies.
In 2018-2019, Stephen was a visiting professor at the TU Delft Chair History of Architecture and Urban Planning in the Netherlands, and he now serves as an International Advisory Board Member and active participant in the PortCityFutures research consortium among Leiden, TU Delft, and Erasmus Universities. He has received research support from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.
Stephen’s current research focuses on Southern Regionalism, and his forthcoming book, Folk Engineering: Planning Southern Regionalism, will be published with the University of North Carolina Press in Fall 2025.
Stephen said:
“I’m grateful and excited to take on the responsibility of Editor-in-Chief for the RSA/Routledge Regions and Cities Book Series. I aspire to steward and grow its rigor, relevance, and impact with cutting-edge publications of broad, collective, interdisciplinary excellence.”
About the Regions and Cities Book Series
In today’s globalised, knowledge-driven and networked world, regions and cities have assumed heightened significance as the interconnected nodes of economic, social and cultural production, and as sites of new modes of economic governance and policy experimentation. This book series, established in 1990, brings together incisive and critically engaged international and interdisciplinary research on this resurgence of regions and cities, and is of interest to geographers, economists, sociologists, political scientists and cultural scholars, as well as to policy-makers involved in regional and urban development.
To date, the series has published over 160 books, averaging six titles a year. The series team comprises the Editor-in-Chief, four Series Editors and the publisher’s Commissioning Editor. Further information about the series in available here.