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Projects

Machine learning for informal settlement health

Tom Fisher, Mohammad Mamouei, Samuel Yutong Cai, Kazem Rahimi

Machine learning for informal settlement health

This project facilitates data-driven policy making on informal settlements by using machine learning with new sources of data including satellite images.

Informal Cities

Measuring Urban Economics

Samira Barzin, Neave O’Clery

Measuring Urban Economics

This project maps the spatial urban economic dynamics of 14 cities across the global south.

Informal Cities

Mayanka Mukherji, Jin-Ho Chung, Bhawani Buswala, Michael Keith, Tim Schwanen

This project investigates how climate-related migrants secure access to urban infrastructures and services, and how they negotiate living alongside existing residents.

Informal Cities

Pollution and Poverty

Samira Barzin, Neave O’Clery

Pollution and Poverty

This projects combines traditional survey data with satellite derived atmospheric data to shed light on,and seek solutions to, the environmental burdens facing the world's poorest people.

Informal Cities

Spatialising residential neighbourhoods using urban big data

ChengHe Guan , Michael Keith

Spatialising residential neighbourhoods using urban big data

This research aims to provide urban planning and design policy recommendations using urban big data and spatial computation.

City Governance

Oxford

Urban informality and resilience: New methods for old questions

Daniel Straulino, Neave O’Clery

Urban informality and resilience: New methods for old questions

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

Sustainable Growth

Oxford

Urban land use and housing in China

Changchun Feng, Yongpei Guo, Kangni Chai , Lixin Su, Hao Xi, Jiaming Li, Yifei Nie, Yi Shuo Liao , Yizhou He

Urban land use and housing in China

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

Sustainable Growth

PKU

Urban Health in the Indian Metropolis: Systems, Intersections and Emergent Concerns

Gautam Bhan, Nilanjan Bhor, Antara Rai Chowdhury, Omkar Nadh Pattela, Divya Ravindranath

Urban Health in the Indian Metropolis: Systems, Intersections and Emergent Concerns

This project locates and urbanises the current state of the epidemiological transition in India and seeks comparatives across the global south.

Health and Wellbeing

Informal Cities

IIHS

Communities, accessibility and healthy living in Itagüí

Juan Pablo Orjuela , Tim Schwanen

Communities, accessibility and healthy living in Itagüí

This research studies accessibility to healthy living among low-income women in Itagüí (Colombia) using a collaborative framework that incorporates environmental variables.

Health and Wellbeing

Oxford

EAFIT