Jonathan Silver

Jonathan is a Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director at the Urban Institute, University of Sheffield undertaking comparative investigations on the urbanisation process with a focus on infrastructure and housing, uneven development and urban politics.

Over the next few years he is leading a European Research Council funded project, GlobalCORRIDOR investigating the role of new infrastructure corridors in shaping urbanisation and inequality in a series of global regions. He is also part of a team examining how agglomeration economics have shaped the transformation of UK cities through an Economic and Social Research Council grant, The Centripetal City.