Faculty Associates

Diane Davis

Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism; Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design

Research Interests: 

Professor Davis’s research focuses on the politics of urbanization in cities of the global south, with a special emphasis on the role that politics and governance play in establishing the social and spatial structure of rapidly growing cities.  Current research explores these themes through a focus on transport policy innovations and their impacts on urban sustainability.

Related Publications: 

"Citizen Participation, Political and Economic Transition, and Urban Mega-project Development in a Global City: Lessons from Mexico City’s Airport Controversy" (with Onesimo Flores Dewey), Journal of Urban Affairs, in press. (2014)

“The Physicality of Citizenship: The Built Environmental Foundations of Insurgent Urbanism in Cities around the Globe (with Prassanna Raman), in CRIOS: Critica degla Ordinamenti Spaziali, Rome. (2013)

“The Physicality of Citizenship: The Built Environmental and Insurgent Urbanism” (with Prassana Raman) in Thresholds 41. (2013)

“The Right to Vision: A New Planning Praxis for Conflict Cities” (with Tali Hatuka), Journal of Planning Education and Research, vol.20 (10): 1-17 (2011)

Cities and Sovereignty: Identity Conflicts in Urban Spaces (edited with Nora Libertun de Duren). Special Series on Critical International Studies. Indiana University Press. (2011)

Discipline and Development: Middle Classes and Economic Prosperity in East Asia and Latin America. Cambridge University Press. (2004)

Research Areas: 

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