Research

More than 120 projects sit with the Urban Transformations portfolio. These cover a range of topics and places and so the easiest way to find what you are looking for is to use the filter function below:

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Eco-Urbanisation: Promoting Sustainable Development in Metropolitan Regions of China

Duration: 01/16 - 12/18

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In the context of China’s rapid urbanisation, with the construction of 30 million new housing units included as part of the New Urbanisation Plan, there is increasing emphasis on the importance of promoting human-centred, environmentally sustainable…

The Re-Making of Chinese Urban Neighbourhoods: Socio-Spatial Transformation and Access to Public Services

Duration: 01/16 - 12/19

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Against a backdrop of far-reaching social change, China’s cities are being reshaped by migration, rapid development and widening inequality. The Re-Making of Chinese Urban Neighbourhoods: Socio-Spatial Transformation and Access to Public Services explores the ways cities…

Strategic Network: Data and Cities as Complex Adaptive Systems (DACAS)

Duration: 12/15 - 12/16

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Despite increasing attention on the application of new information flows to the design and development of ‘smart’ cities, there is still limited understanding of the interconnections in urban areas between ‘hard’ infrastructure and economic, ecological and…

The Neurosocial City

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However critical one may be about current categories, diagnosed depression and anxiety have one pattern across city life, and diagnosed psychoses quite another; from diagnoses ranging from suicidality to eating disorders, we find repeated differences across…

The Urban Politics and Governance of Social Innovation in Austerity

Duration: 01/16 – 01/19

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A comparative study of the ongoing effects of austerity in Athens, Berlin and Newcastle, with a focus on the roles of alternative finance, grassroots mobilisation and community provisioning in meeting the needs of citizens.

Governing the Future City: A Comparative Analysis of Governance Innovations in Large Scale Urban Developments in Shanghai, London, Johannesburg

Duration: 01/16 – 04/18

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A comparative study of developments in China, South Africa and the UK that explores the ways that competing concerns such as market-driven financing and public participation are balanced in different urban environments.

Structural Transformation, Adaptability and City Economic Evolutions

Duration: 10/15 – 03/18

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A research project exploring the role of urban areas in driving economic growth, with a particular focus on their potential in the north of the UK.

Jam and Justice: Co-Producing Urban Governance for Social Innovation

Duration: 01/16 – 04/20

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Research project to explore new ways of governing cities, with an emphasis on social innovation and inclusion of disenfranchised communities.

RESOLUTION: REsilient Systems fOr Land Use TransportatION

Duration: 10/15 - 03/18

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A collaboration between British and Brazilian researchers to explore mobility, segregation and inequality in London and São Paulo.

Understanding Urban Movements through Big Data and Social Simulation

Duration: 05/15 - 04/18

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A project working to improve the collection and integration of crowd-generated data to assess health and crime trends in cities.

Collaborative Governance under Austerity: An Eight-Case Comparative Study

Duration: 04/15 - 07/18

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A project researching multistakeholder governance in eight case study cities (Athens, Baltimore, Barcelona, Dublin, Leicester, Melbourne, Montreal and Nantes) in Australia, Canada and Europe.

Super-diverse Streets: Economies and Spaces of Urban Migration in UK Cities

Duration: 01/15 - 10/17

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An ethnographic study of the impacts of migration and diversity on local high streets in six British cities.

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