Publications
Our publications explore how global infrastructure projects reshape urban regions, environments, governance and politics worldwide. Our writing across a range of formats critically examines political ecologies, planning, and everyday impacts. Through books academic articles, edited book, public reports and other forms of writing we share insights on global infrastructural transformations.
papers
February.2026 // Urban Studies
Lucrative infrastructure and intentional bypassing
Comparing two Chinese-financed infrastructure projects in Kenya
Zhengli Huang //
February.2026 // International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
EVERYTHING IS BEING DISTURBED
Unsettling the Spaces of Global Infrastructure along theNorthern Corridor
Jonathan Silver //
Sydney Nsubuga //
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 //
Francesca Governa //
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 //
reports
December.2025
Navigating Displacement and Inequality along the ML-1 Railway Corridor
Perspectives from Urban Pakistan
Muhammed Toheed //
December.2025
The Karachi Coastal Comprehensive Development Zone (KCCDZ)
Sana R. Gondal //
April.2025
"I was evicted and left homeless"
Exploring social and environmental (in)justice along the East African Crude Oil Pipeline Project
Jonathan Silver //
Haki Defenders Foundation //
books
non academic writings
September.2025 // The Conversation
‘The ‘Gaza Riviera’ is a fantasy plan that relies on urbicide and expulsion’
Jonathan Silver //
July.2024 // Review Of African Political Economy
First came the floods that washed away people’s homes, then came the bulldozers that destroyed everything that was left’
Wairimu Gathimba //
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