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The Brussels Studies Institute (BSI) functions as the interuniversity contact and coordination platform for scientific research on Brussels. BSI promotes, facilitates and develops integrated research

The City Institute is an interdisciplinary institute that brings together scholars working on urban issues from across the social sciences and humanities, particularly geography, environmental

The Center for Urban Economic Development at UIC conducts research that shapes the trajectories of local and regional economies, improves development outcomes, and expands economic

Metropolitan Research Institute (MRI) is an internationally and nationally recognized scientific think-tank, founded in 1989 and based in Budapest. Its work is dedicated to housing,

The research group on Creativity, Innovation and Urban Transformation (CRIT) is a consolidated research group of University of Barcelona. It is formed by an interdisciplinary

The Research Platform on The Challenge of Urban Futures aims at unravelling the social, cultural, economic and politico-institutional mechanisms underlying urban change. In particular, it

The Institute for Urban Research is a university-wide research centre that brings together all urban research at Malmö University. Seeking to shape a collective identity for

The URBEUR urban studies PhD programme is located in the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Milano-Bicocca.  Designed for scholars, researchers

The Cities are Back in Town research group is a transdisciplinary collective of researchers and professionals that produces systematic and comparative works on cities and

The Georg-Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies (GSZ) is an interdisciplinary platform at the Humboldt University for urban and metropolitan research. The GSZ coordinates activities on

The UCL Urban Laboratory is a cross-disciplinary centre promoting critical, creative and collaborative inquiry into urgent urban problems, based at University College London. They investigate,

The Manchester Urban Institute works across several transdisciplinary research agendas addressing urban challenges and opportunities in the 21st century. It co-produces knowledge of how cities

The Tolerant Migrant Cities project examines migrants through the eyes of the courts in the highly urbanized coastal provinces of the Netherlands (Holland) between 1600

The Centre for Urban Studies connects more than 50 researchers and over 50 PhD students, bringing together urban scholars in human geography, planning, sociology, political

The ULB’s Brussels studies network, EBxl, coordinates, pools and promotes the work of the research teams that decode the complexity of Brussels and have made

The Urban Academy is a collaboratory for transdisciplinary research and education on complex and urgent sustainability issues of the City of Ghent and Ghent University.

The KU Leuven Urban Studies Institute (LUSI) is KU Leuven’s answer to growing calls to study urban questions from an interdisciplinary perspective. LUSI brings together

The Brussels Centre for Urban Studies brings together researchers from the social sciences, humanities and engineering and aims to support inter- and transdisciplinary research projects

The University of Antwerp’s Urban Studies Institute is a platform and laboratory for the development of interdisciplinary research and education on cities, urban development and