Publications
Our publications explore how global infrastructure projects reshape cities, landscapes, governance and politics worldwide. Our writing across a range of formats critically examines political ecologies, planning, and everyday impacts. Through books academic articles, public reports and other forms of writing we share insights on global infrastructural transformations.
books
papers
May.2025 // Habitat International
Land use policy in the peri-urban district as Africa's ‘smart authoritarianism’?
Exploring emergent governance challenges in the implementation of a mega real estate project at Konza, Kenya
Catherine Gateri //
May.2025 // Dialogue in Human Geography
A dialogue on global infrastructure-led urbanization: Concepts and reorientations
Jonathan Silver //
Elia Apostolopoulou //
January.2025 // Urban Studies
The unending corridor
Critical approaches to the politics, logics and socio-technics of urban corridorisation
Fatima Tassadiq //
Yannis Kallianos //
Jonathan Silver //
Prince Guma //
May.2024 // Urban Geography
Cities on the New silk road
The Global Urban Geographies of China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Elia Apostolopoulou //
Jonathan Silver //
Alan Wiig //
Han Cheng //
March.2024 // Environment and Planning
Colonial laws, postcolonial infrastructures
Land acquisition, urban informality, and politics of infrastructural development in Pakistan
Fatima Tassadiq //
May.2023 // Urban Studies
Plug-in urbanism
City building and the parodic guise of new infrastructure in Africa
Prince Guma //
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