City Governance

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

How can informal transport systems respond to the changing mobility needs of growing cities and provide viable livelihoods for their operators?

This project studies the development of industrial mega-infrastructure in the context of Bangalore’s transition to a largely service-sector economy.

We aim to understand the dynamics of SDG implementation and monitoring at the local (city) level in the context of transitional cities in the Global South.

We examine the history of national-scale urban reform efforts in South Africa from the start of the twentieth century to the present, focusing on planning, fiscal and health interventions.

Building on the findings of ACC’s Sustainable Human Settlements CityLab, we focus on the key, interconnected city-wide and state-led drivers of human settlements development.

This project has assessed the dynamics of SDG localization in the City of Cape Town to gain a better understanding of the challenges and opportunities for SDG implementation at the subnational level.

This project investigates how urban simulation can be applied in an interdisciplinary research platform and contributes to the planning of future smart cities.

This project examines the issues of social inequality and urban challenge in India by focusing on how the citizens located at the spatio-legal margins in the city imagine, access, and experience the state.