Infrastructure corridors promise a future of connectivity, circulation and investment and have become a dominant technology across a range of spaces, places and territories reflecting a global shift in urban-regional governance, investment flows, planning approaches, logistical regimes and urbanisation processes.
GlobalCORRIDOR is an ongoing investigation that responses to this new global, urban geography of Corridor Urbanization through an agenda-setting programme of research to respond to the immense changes to urban life these visions, plans, and investments are likely to impose and the gaps in knowledges addressing this phenomenon.
The aim of GlobalCORRIDOR is to find new ways to go about researching and thinking through Corridor Urbanization and to assess how these infrastructure led transformations are shaping urban inequality. It is led by Professor Jonathan Silver and based at the Urban Institute, University of Sheffield.
The website provides a repository of our collaborative investigation with our amazing international team including our publications, the Global Corridor Atlas and Database, events, news and more.
You can also follow the Global Corridor newsletter published on Substack that provides a round up of international news, views, scholarship and data on global infrastructure ranging from geo-politics and conflict to finance to urban issues.
Our work has spanned from big data sets and data visualisation to on the ground fieldwork across numerous corridors in Egypt, Greece, Kenya, Italy, Pakistan and Uganda, through to historical analysis, seminars, public events and workshops, as well as collaborations with film makers and photographic-led methods.
The investigation has been organised around Jonathan Silver's European Research Council Starting Grant (2021-27) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant Agreement ID: 947779).