Tom Cowan

Tom Cowan is the editor of Cities in Conflict on openSecurity. He is also a PhD student in the Geography department at King's College London. He tweets @chomtowan.

The urban paradox

As Cities in Conflict goes on hiatus, I take a look back at the past fourteen months of publishing articles, film, photo-essays, mappings and infographics on the series, and comment on where urbanism is today: stuck between logics of saviourism and withdrawal.

By Tom Cowan

/ 2 May 2014

Cities in Conflict: the editor's pick

A look back at some of my favourite articles, interviews, photo-essays and films from the past fourteen months of Cities in Conflict. For more on the series go to the

By Tom Cowan

/ 2 May 2014