Our Lab

Beijing City Lab

The Beijing City Lab (BCL) is a dedicating to studying, but not limited to, China’s capital Beijing. The Lab focuses on employing interdisciplinary methods to quantify urban dynamics, generating new insights for urban planning and governance, and ultimately producing the science of cities required for sustainable urban development. The lab's current mix of urban planning, architecture, urban geography, GIS, economy, and computer science background lends unique research strength.