Julia King

Julia King is a Research Fellow at LSE Cities and a design practitioner. Trained as an architect her research, design practice and teaching focus on infrastructure and public space in the context of rapid urbanisation, inequitable infrastructure developments and urban micro-culture. She is the founder and director of the ‘Apprenticeship Programme in City Design’ at LSE Cities. The scheme is a novel outreach programme for young adults to learn through practice at the LSE. She also teaches on the Cities Masters Programme at LSE and runs an undergraduate design studio at the Architectural Association. She has won numerous awards for her work including Emerging Woman Architect of the Year (2014), NLA Award, Civic Trust Regional Award and short-listed for a Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award. Her projects have been widely publicised, and she has authored chapters in ‘Home Economics’ (2016) and ‘Infrastructure Space’ (2017) and co-authored a chapter in ‘The SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century City’ (2017).