Urban Infrastructure Transition Lab (uLab-Infrastructure) focuses on understanding infrastructure financing and assessing its impact. The social, economic and health impacts of large-scale infrastructure interventions, such as new metro, urban renewal, large-block gated communities, and global street experiments, are profound. We specialise in using natural experiments to infer the causality of such impacts. We are interested in the institution and governance of the infrastructure financing, using experimental economics approaches to formulate the decision-making processes in local governments.

Our won several prestigious awards, including those from the Royal Town Planning Institute (UK), Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (USA), Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors, and International Association for China Planning. We have published articles in highly reputable journals and public policy reports. Our research and practice are funded by national and international competitive research grants and industry funds (over 1 million GBP).