Urban Design | Urban Studies
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I’m Claire, a PhD student at the University of Sheffield and a former architect/urban designer. I research spatial inequality and everyday urban experience—linking lived experience with emerging urban data to support more inclusive public spaces and more livable cities.
My PhD focuses on how migrant newcomers interact with everyday urban spaces in Greater Boston as arrival infrastructures.
2024-
PhD student in Urban Studies and Planning @ University of Sheffield (ESRC Whiterose Scholarship)
2023-2024
Master in Social Research @ University of Sheffield (ESRC Whiterose Scholarship)
2016-2018
Master of Architecture in Urban Design @ Harvard University
2011-2016
Bachelor of Architecture @ Tsinghua University
Using Migrations and Cultures as a point of departure, this essay explores the rational choices underlying migration. From the hardships of initial settlement, to the formation of ethnic enclaves and occupational concentration, and onward to the divergent trajectories of different migrant groups, we see that migrants are never blank slates. They carry with them survival…
Four strategies to ask better questions, hear what matters, and build real understanding.
From Malinowski’s Trobriand Islands to the side streets of modern cities, fieldwork has evolved from anthropology’s “immersive” tradition into a more flexible, diverse method. This article traces early fieldwork practices and explores how researchers balance tradition and modernity to piece together the complex puzzle of human society.
Claire Zhuo Pang 