There is a growing recognition that responding to climate change necessitates urban
adaptation. We sketch a transdisciplinary research effort, arguing that actionable research …

India's urban slums exhibit dramatic variation in their access to local public goods and
services-paved roads, piped water, trash removal, sewers, and streetlights. Why are some …

Urban mobility infrastructures are crucial in connecting people to a city and the prospects it
provides. Through a critical review of literature on growth of cities in South Asia, transport …

Residents of informal settlements are some of the most vulnerable urban groups to the
effects of climate change. Different responses have emerged to intervene in these …

Major land reform programs have reallocated property in more than one-third of the world's
countries in the last century and impacted over one billion people. But only rarely have these …

Despite the rise of global technocratic ideals of city-making, cities around the world are not
merging into indistinguishable duplicates of one another. In fact, as the world urbanizes …

Studies of clientelism overwhelmingly focus on how brokers target voters with top‐down
benefits during elections. Yet brokers also receive requests from voters for assistance …

Urban India is characterised by a high degree of intra-city spatial inequality in the availability
of public services like piped water and sewerage. We unpack the political channels that link …

Clientelism is a type of nonprogrammatic linkage strategy that political parties deploy to win
elections. Specifically, the concept refers to the personalized and discretionary ex change of …

Cities are concentrators of complex, multi‐sectoral interactions. As keystones in the
interconnected human‐Earth system, cities have an outsized impact on the Earth system …