Urban Growth
The Urban Growth pillar explores the question of how urban economies create new forms of co-dependency across the public and private sectors, and between cities and regions. It also explores the outcomes of growth, and how the concentration of resources can drive socio-spatial inequalities and injustices, and the challenges of risk creation as urban growth interacts with sustainability challenges.
Cities are incubators of societal development and human progress. In Urban Growth, we frame cities as interconnected networks of value creation, and question what sustainable growth looks like in the current age of environmental disruption.
LI JING
Pillar Lead, Urban Growth
Associate Professor of Economics
Latest Projects
The ‘Other’ Garden City: Documenting Singapore’s Edible Gardening Heritage
Spanning approximately two hundred years of Singapore’s modern history, this study will draw upon a wide array of textual and non-textual historical and contemporary sources to document gardening i
Subway, Collaborative Matching, and Innovation
Using rapid expansion of the Beijing subway from 2000 to 2018, we analyze its impact on collaborative matches in innovations.
Housing wealth shocks, home equity withdrawal, and the claiming of Social Security retirement benefits
This paper examines the impact of changes in house prices on when eligible individuals start receiving Social Security benefits.
