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Professor Jane M Jacobs FBA

Urban and Cultural Geography, built environment heritage, architecture and society, history of high-rise housing; indigenous land rights and cultural property, Aboriginal and settler relations, post-colonialism
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2016
Subjects
Geography
Sections
Anthropology and Geography
Website
https://www.yale-nus.edu.sg/about/faculty/jane-jacobs/

Current post

Professor in Urban Studies, and Director, Division of Social Sciences, Yale-NUS College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

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