We develop research questions, shape ideas and build change, working from start to finish with our partners. We train researchers, policymakers, politicians, businesses and civil society leaders to collaborate more effectively. Our research draws its strength from academia, civil society, business and government. It is always done in partnership with institutions who seek to put new ideas into practice, uniting the wisdom of everyday experience with rigorous scholarship.
Learn more about our current research in each thematic area and browse our publications.
Research themes
Urban Ecology
The study of ecosystems that include humans living in cities and urbanizing landscapes. It is an emerging, interdisciplinary field that aims to understand how human and ecological processes can coexist in human-dominated systems and help societies with their efforts to become more sustainable.
Urban Geography
Urban geography is the study of cities. Geographers examine the factors that lead to the location and relative size of cities, and also the complex processes that shape the nature of individual urban areas.
Urban Pathology
Urban pathology is described as human pathology that suffers from oppression in the city - the city where the daily life turned into a state of suffering due to pollution of all kinds
Urban Studies
Urban studies or pre-urban planning education is based on the study of the urban development of cities. This includes studying the history of city development from an architectural point of view, to the impact of urban design on community development efforts.
Projects
Urban spatiality and social configurations emerge as key research and exploratory theme for the core research group involved with the centre. The CUS seeks to ground aspirants in the basic history and thematic issues. The cohort will keep engaging with advanced research in developmental schemes; urban practices, inhabitants and actors, designs; socio-ecological configurations and other critical issues.
Urban spatiality and social configurations emerge as key research and exploratory theme for the core research group involved with the centre. The CUS seeks to ground aspirants in the basic history and thematic issues. The cohort will keep engaging with advanced research in developmental schemes; urban practices, inhabitants and actors, designs; socio-ecological configurations and other critical issues.
