I'm Shubhanga, a Master of City Planning student at the University of Pennsylvania. My work explores housing, urban inequality, and the ways data can inform planning.
An interactive exploration of Philadelphia's housing markets, subsidized housing, and vacant land, moving from citywide patterns to a neighborhood and parcel.
Explore the story map ↗Research on housing conditions, spatial inequality, and the lived experiences of Nepali migrant workers in Dubai and Doha.
This ongoing thesis examines accommodation conditions, where worker housing is located, and how those environments shape everyday life and dignity. The planned approach combines oral histories with returnee workers, institutional perspectives, and literature and policy analysis.
A modeling project exploring relationships between property characteristics, location, and home sale prices in Philadelphia.
The work brings together data cleaning, feature engineering, spatial analysis, and linear modeling to examine patterns in residential property prices.
An examination of population and employment trends and their implications for housing demand.
This work uses cohort-survival and trend methods, alongside shift-share and location quotient analysis, to explore demographic and economic change.
I'm from Nepal and currently pursuing a Master of City Planning at the University of Pennsylvania's Weitzman School of Design. My interests connect affordable housing, real estate, urban inequality, and spatial data analysis.
My background in economics and business informs how I approach cities: through the relationships between people, places, institutions, and investment.
Find my work on GitHub ↗