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The GlobalCORRIDOR project is a comprehensive, social science study of the 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. The project has been led by Professor Jonathan Silver, based at the Urban Institute, University of Sheffield.
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. Over the last five years the project work has spanned from big data sets to on the ground fieldwork across numerous corridors in Egypt (with American University of Cairo), Greece (with University of Crete) Kenya (with British Institute of East Africa), Italy (with Politecnico di Torino), Pakistan (with Karachi Urban Lab) and Uganda (Urban Action Lab), through to historical analysis, global governance overviews to collaborations with film makers.
Alongside the website a beta version of The GlobalCORRIDOR Atlas and Database has been launched as part of a process of technical validation. This data visualisation is intended to stimulate dialogue on the role of infrastructure corridors in the global economy, across extended urbanised terrains and the associated (geo)political implications. This has been based on collating thousands of data points and locations that the team has collected as part of our interrogations of these initiatives. The result is an interactive, web-based resource to explore dozens of separate corridors that span many countries across the globe, accounting for nearly a trillion dollars of planned/under construction/operating infrastructure investment, announced since 2008, our baseline year. You can read more about the process of building the Atlas and Database and the technical validation process here, or simply jump into exploring the world of corridors here. In the proceeding months the team will begin publishing data analysis from this work.
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GlobalCORRIDOR is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement ID: 947779).