Research > RESEARCH By Professor

IDG Faculty members have a wealth of knowledge and experience, and their research is fueled by their passion for development. Click on one of the project titles below to learn more.

 

Diane E. Davis

• Cities and Public Insecurity
• Globalization and Downtown Development
• The State and Development Policy
• Vision for a Place of Peace: Jerusalem 2050

Annette M. Kim

• Land Market Institutions in Transition Economies
• Property Rights Project
• Reforming Public Space

John de Monchaux

• Measures of Urban Performance
• Slum Upgrading
• Urban Conservation in Developing Countries
• Singapore Urban Design Studio
• Vision for a Place of Peace: Jerusalem 2050

Ralph Gakenheimer

• Mobility and Motorization in the Developing World

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Karen R. Polenske

• Air Quality in Dense Urban Areas: Work with the South Coast Air Quality Management District
• Alternative Energy-Efficient and Low-Pollution Township and Village Enterprise and State Owned Enterprise Technologies in China
• Energy-Intensity Changes and Environmental Issues in China
• Estimating the Contributions to Industry Productivity and the Impacts on the U.S. Economy of 'A Systems Solution to Quality Problems in Auto Body Manufacturing' - the 2mm project
• Technology-Energy-Environment-Health (TEEH) Chain in China's Household and Township and Village Enterprise Sector
• Yellow-Dust in China- Interactive Modeling

Balakrishnan Ragagopal

• Development, Human Rights and the Search for Justice
• Globalization and Local Governance
• History of Development, Law and Coloniality
• Program on Human Rights and Justice

Bish Sanyal

• IDRP/UNDP Decentralization Project
• Urban Informal Economy and Progressive Planners

Judith Tendler

• MIT/IDRP Projects in Brazil

Chris Zegras

• Assessment and Development of CDM Methodologies for the Transport Sector
• The Accessibility and Development Impacts of New Transit InfrastructurE: The Circle Line in Chicago
• The Built Environment and Transportation Greenhouse Gas Emissions in a Rapidly Developing City
• Gated Communities and Travel Behavior: Evidence from a Latin American Metropolis
• Integrated Modeling for Sustainable Metropolitan Mobility
• Making the ‘Clean Energy City’ in China
• Metropolitan Transportation Finance: Policy and Institutional Frameworks
• Paying for Public Transportation Operations in Chicago
• Public-Private Partnerships for Urban Transportation Infrastructure
• SOTUR - Strategic Options for Integrating Transportation Innovations and Urban Revitalization
• Sustaining Mass Transit through Land Value Taxation: A Case Study of Chicago
• Travel Behavior of the Aging Boomers: Evidence from Age-Restricted Communities

 

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