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 StudentVictoria Avis
MCP CandidateEran Ben-Joseph
Class of 1922 Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban PlanningSmriti Bhaya
MCP CandidateGabriella Carolini
Associate Professor of Urban Planning and International DevelopmentPedro Ferraz de Abreu
Visiting ScholarKhadija Ghanizada
MCP CandidateJason Jackson
Associate Professor in Political Economy and Urban PlanningErica Caple James
Professor of Medical Anthropology and Urban StudiesJustin Kollar
Doctoral 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
Doctoral CandidateVirginia Sun
MCP StudentJS Tan
Doctoral StudentArcher Thomas
MCP StudentLawrence Vale
Ford Professor of Urban Design and PlanningRicha Vera Udayana
MCP StudentDelia Wendel
Assistant Professor of Urban Studies and International DevelopmentFranny Xi Wu
MCP + MSRED CandidateChris Zegras
Professor of Mobility and Urban Planning, Department HeadSiqi Zheng
Professor of Urban and Real Estate SustainabilityManal Zia
MCP Student