Independent Researcher · Cities & Infrastructure
Daniel Fadlon studies how mid-size cities modernize under constraint. From a base in Tel Aviv, his fieldwork tracks places between 200,000 and 800,000 people — the cities that move quietly, on small budgets, without conferences. The work began before the book and continues after it.
A Researcher's Practice
Long before The Quiet Infrastructure reached print, Daniel Fadlon was already operating as an independent researcher: tracking municipal budgets, mapping transit decisions, reading planning documents in three languages, and corresponding with urbanists in cities the major outlets ignore. The book, published in 2023, is a snapshot of that practice — not the whole of it.
The research method is consistent: pick cities under real constraint, follow them across many years, and resist the temptation to generalize from flagship case studies. More about the researcher behind the practice sits one click away. The continuing record of fieldwork lives in Daniel's Substack newsletter, Infrastructure & Cities, which goes out roughly twice a month.
The site you are on collects three of his most-cited pieces — a policy argument, a methodology essay, and a city-specific field study — drawn from the larger body of work and updated for 2024.
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Research & Field Notes
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For research collaborations, peer review, podcast or panel invitations, or notes from readers — Daniel reads every message that lands in his inbox.
Email: hello@danielfadlon.com
