Azreen Azlan

Dr Azreen Azlan is Lecturer in Architecture and Urbanism at Manchester Metropolitan University's Manchester School of Architecture. With qualifications including a PhD from TU Delft on protest spaces in Kuala Lumpur, she previously taught at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia and was NUS Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.

Her research investigates politics of space, decolonial urbanism, and land reclamation impacts on marginalized communities. She examines how colonial legacies shape spatial inequalities and how communities resist displacement. Recent work focuses on urban imaginaries and speculative urban development in Southeast Asia.

Key Publications:

• Editor of 'FUTURE PRACTICES OF CITIZENSHIP IN ASIA AND THE WEST' (2024)
• Spatial analyses of Kuala Lumpur's colonial palimpsest
• Studies of digital dissent in Malaysian protests

Her research methodology employs postcolonial theory to analyze how urban planning and architecture perpetuate or challenge power structures, particularly in Southeast Asian contexts.