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Sai Balakrishnan is an associate professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where he serves as co-director of the Global Metropolitan Studies program and chair of the undergraduate major in urban studies. His research and teaching focus broadly on global urban inequalities, with particular attention to urbanization, planning, and institutions in the Global South. Balakrishnan's current work involves a global-comparative analysis of technopolitics in land-use governance, including the study of Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) in cities like New York and Mumbai. He is collaborating on a book that examines caste capitalism and the geographies of uneven development in India from the late colonial period to the present.
University of California, Berkeley • Berkeley, CA
Teaching and conducting research in the Department of City and Regional Planning.
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