International Development
We leverage our faculty and student diversity and the MIT and our global ecosystem to integrate views of the institutional, economic, physical and socio-political factors necessary for effective, legitimate and equitable planning in today's developing world.
Overview
With a long history of focus on planning challenges in the developing world, we study and engage with with the actors, institutions and processes that are relevant to the economic, political, and social transformation of such regions, cities, and nations-states. The institutional and policy challenges of such transformations, the distributional consequences of such transformations and the realities of such transformation in practice, inform much of our approach to teaching, research and scholarship. Diverse area of focus of research and teaching include peace and security dimensions of planning, key sectoral areas such as governance, housing, property, land, water and sanitation, health, transport and real estate, and legal and institutional dimensions of development.
People
Cherie Abbanat
Lecturer of International Development and Urban StudiesAdeposi Adeogun
Doctoral StudentNatasha Ansari
Doctoral StudentEran Ben-Joseph
Class of 1922 Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban PlanningGabriella Carolini
Associate Professor of Urban Planning and International DevelopmentLaura Dallabrida Leite e Silva
MCP StudentTemuulen Enkhbat
MCP StudentPedro Ferraz de Abreu
Visiting ScholarEsther Helm
MCP StudentKevin Hsu
Researcher & Doctoral CandidateXinyi Huang
MCP & MST StudentJason Jackson
Associate Professor in Political Economy and Urban PlanningErica Caple James
Professor of Medical Anthropology and Urban StudiesJustin Kollar
Doctoral CandidateChang Liu
Postdoc, Senseable City LabAnushka Maqbool
MCP CandidateLidia Cano Pecharroman
Doctoral CandidateMrinalini Penumaka
Doctoral CandidateBalakrishnan Rajagopal
Associate Professor of Law and DevelopmentBish Sanyal
Ford International Professor of Urban Development and PlanningFaizan Jawed Siddiqi
Lecturer of Urban Studies and PlanningJonars Spielberg
Assistant Director, SPURS/Humphrey's Fellow ProgramBarbara Sula Braga
MCP StudentVirginia Sun
MCP StudentJS Tan
Doctoral StudentLawrence Vale
Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning, and Associate Dean, MIT School of Architecture and PlanningRicha Vera Udayana
MCP StudentHung Vo
PhD StudentDelia Wendel
Associate Professor of Urban Studies and International DevelopmentChris Zegras
Professor of Mobility and Urban Planning, Department HeadJinhua Zhao
Class of 1941 Professor of Cities and TransportationSiqi Zheng
Professor of Urban and Real Estate Sustainability