Featured Research
![Police Sign](https://live-global-metro-studies.pantheon.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/AngelRossResearch-800x350.jpg)
Surveilling the Suburbs: Racial Inequality and the Rise of Big Data Policing in Suburbia
Ángel Ross
PhD Student
Sociology
![Agua Potable](https://live-global-metro-studies.pantheon.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/aguapotable-315x350.jpg)
Precarity & Publics: Making and Unmaking Resilience in Mexico City
Beki McElvain
PhD Candidate
City and Regional Planning
![Chris Chan Research](https://live-global-metro-studies.pantheon.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/ChrisChanResearch-800x350.jpg)
Reclaiming Culture: Infrastructure, Islands, and Art in the Shadow of Contemporary China
Chris Chan
PhD Candidate
Anthropology
![Archival collage](https://live-global-metro-studies.pantheon.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/collage-800x350.jpg)
Landscapes of Industrialization: The ‘long 1970s’ under the Spanish authoritarian regime
Pol Fité Matamoros
PhD Student
Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
![Jitney-lite](https://live-global-metro-studies.pantheon.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/tawitresearch-800x350.jpg)
Jitney-lite: low-cost, flexible-route feeder transit without communication devices
Tawit Boom Sangveraphunsiri
PhD Candidate
Civil and Environmental Engineering
![Laundry](https://live-global-metro-studies.pantheon.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Heba16-800x350.jpg)
Lands, Camps, and the Remains: A Spatial History of Refugees in Jordan (1878–2011)
Heba Alnajada
PhD Candidate
Architecture
![Lyon riverfront](https://live-global-metro-studies.pantheon.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Lyon-RestoredLeftBankRhone-800x350.jpg)
A Water-Systems Approach to Understanding Rivers and Urban Form
G. Mathias Kondolf
Professor
Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
Charisma Acey
Associate Professor
City and Regional Planning
![Wingfield Park on the Truckee River in downtown Reno, Nevada. Formerly a derelict site, this reach of river was transformed into a popular recreational area, serving a wide demographic. (photo by Matt Kondolf)](https://live-global-metro-studies.pantheon.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/KondolfReno-800x350.png)
Re-Naturalizing Urban Waterways: Social and Biophysical Implications
Matt Kondolf
Professor
Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
![Project diagram](https://live-global-metro-studies.pantheon.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Senguptaimage-800x350.png)
Smart Pandemic Management in Cities
Joan Walker
Professor
Global Metropolitan Studies and Civil Engineering