Kaika

Maria Kaika holds a PhD in Human Geography from Oxford University, and an MA in Architecture from the National Technical University of Athens. She is Professor at the University of Manchester, Honorary Fellow of the Manchester Architecture Research Centre, and co-Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.  In 2013 she was elected Professor of the City of Vienna, and has taught at the Universities of Oxford (tenured appointment), Paris Est (LATTS), KULeuven, and University of London. Her research focuses on urban political ecology, urban radical imaginaries, cities and crisis, and land financialization. She is author of numerous academic articles and of:   City of Flows: Modernity, Nature and the City (2005; Routledge, New York) and (co-editor with N Heynen and E Swyngedouw) of In the Nature of Cities: urban political ecology and the metabolism of urban environments (2006; Routledge, London).