Sustainable Growth

We will focus on land use and housing issues in Chinese cities with the aim to provide policy recommendations that help improve land use practices.

Worldwide, people are moving to cities—by 2050, 2 out of every 3 people will live in cities or urban centers, a statistic that is already exceeded in Latin America and other regions.

Using interdisciplinary methods, we will propose innovative strategies to address socioeconomic challenges around commuting and social mobility.

We will focus on two dimensions of urban footprint growth: the expansion of the urban extent and the dynamics of growth within the city.

Through this research, we will examine the industrial transformation in Bangalore, a megacity with a substantial services-based economy.

This project will take advantage of recent advances in remote sensing and computer vision to develop an alternative approach to obtaining useful data for urban researchers and policy makers.

This research aims to contextualise land based financing instruments in relation to the institutional, market and governance conditions prevailing in the Indian urban context.