Asa Roast is an urban geographer with expertise in urbanisation, urban planning, alternative economics, peri-urban spaces, and contemporary China.
My research asks what formal and informal systems emerge when people live together in shared space. Across the various research projects I have worked on—from fieldwork in Chinese cities to speculative game spaces—I am interested in the boundaries and breakdowns of formal systems: how infrastructures, imaginaries, and institutions produce spaces of creativity, improvisation, and possibility.
Since 2022 I have been a lecturer in urban geography at the School of Geography at the University of Leeds.
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