In 2018, IDFC Institute's work on urban definitions was published in The Journal of Asian Economics. This work was cited in an article on Research Matters:
"In a recent study, researchers from the IDFC Institute, have looked into the current definition of “urban” in India. The...
In this Hub Culture video, CEO and Senior Fellow Reuben Abraham speaks to Hub Culture's Executive Editor Edie Lush on urban trends across the world: how cities are growing, and what it means to become an 'urban species'. The conversation took place at the World Economic Forum's annual meet...
This article in The Economist quotes Bimal Patel, president of CEPT University in Ahmedabad. Excerpts:
"It is hardly surprising that most Indian cities are so messy, says Bimal Patel, an architect and planner who is president of CEPT University in Ahmedabad. When Europea...
This Place article talks about new research on urbanisation, which shows that the world is a lot more urban than we think. Excerpts:
"Using a definition made possible by advances in geospatial technology that can use a high-resolution satellite image to determine the number of people living...
We have developed a new web-application that allows you to explore the spatial form of India's development over four decades! In its first installment, click here to view the growth of India's largest eight metros since 1975 to present.
Users can view high-resolution satellite data on ...
In this joint Hindustan Times and Dawn feature, maps show the incredible growth of Delhi in the decade after Partition as half a million refugees poured into the city, and hundreds of thousands fled across the border.
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The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy weighs in on the expanding footprint of sprawling cities. This analysis was part of a preview of the revised and expanded Atlas of Urban Expansion, a partnership of UN-Habitat, the New York University Urban Expansion Program, and the Lincoln Instit...
This CityLab article says "Each city’s unique layout pattern has an effect on its successes and failures.":
"...The maps were created by researchers at the center’s Urban Age program, who have been studying how the layout of rapidly urbanizing cities can affe...
Shruti Rajagopalan, Assistant Professor of Economics at State University of New York, Purchase College, talks to IDFC Institute's Pritika Hingorani on her paper "Lessons from Gurgaon: India's Private City", written with Alexander T. Tabarrok, Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics at George ...
