About the work
GlobalCORRIDOR is a comprehensive, social science study of 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 address the challenge of how we understand 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 work 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 news, views and data on global infrastructure.
Our work has spanned from big data sets to on the ground fieldwork across numerous corridors in Egypt, Greece, Kenya, Italy, Pakistan and Uganda, through to historical analysis and collaborations with film makers.
The project is funded through a European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme through a Starting Grant (Grant Agreement ID: 947779).