SHUBHANGA SATYAL
Urban planning · Housing · Spatial analysis

Understanding cities.
Exploring possibilities.

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.

Selected work

Maps, analysis, and research
01 / Interactive story map Where could
Philadelphia build
affordable housing?
Housing · GIS · JavaScript

Finding opportunities for affordable housing

An interactive exploration of Philadelphia's housing markets, subsidized housing, and vacant land, moving from citywide patterns to a neighborhood and parcel.

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02 / Master's thesis · Ongoing Housing.
Migration.
Dignity.
Dubai & Doha · Housing · Oral history

Nepali migrant workers and the city

Research on housing conditions, spatial inequality, and the lived experiences of Nepali migrant workers in Dubai and Doha.

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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.

03 / Quantitative analysis Reading the
housing market.
Statistical modeling · Spatial analysis

Analyzing Philadelphia home sale prices

A modeling project exploring relationships between property characteristics, location, and home sale prices in Philadelphia.

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The work brings together data cleaning, feature engineering, spatial analysis, and linear modeling to examine patterns in residential property prices.

04 / Urban forecasting A changing city.
Future needs.
Population · Employment · Housing demand

Exploring Philadelphia's future housing needs

An examination of population and employment trends and their implications for housing demand.

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This work uses cohort-survival and trend methods, alongside shift-share and location quotient analysis, to explore demographic and economic change.

A little about me.

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 ↗