Over its long history, IURD has sponsored research in numerous areas and across many disciplines. IURD emphasizes interdisciplinary and cooperative study with the aim of fostering joint learning among faculty, students, and practitioners and helping researchers to recognize interdependencies in order to grasp the larger context of the problems that they are studying.

FEATURED RESEARCH PROJECTS

Law and Governance Research Group

Participatory Slum Upgrading in Nairobi, Kenya

Resilience and Reconstruction in Talca, Chile

Urban Transformation in Medellín, Colombia

Urban Health in All Policies in Richmond, California

Global Learning Exchange for Building Healthy and Equitable Communities

AREAS OF RESEARCH

Connecting Cairo to the Nile 

Social Urbanism in Medellín, Colombia 

Participatory Slum Upgrading, Nairobi, Kenya 

Affordable housing financing and access

Law and governance research Group

Resilience and Reconstruction in Talca, Chile 

Informal Settlements and Slum Upgrading 

Urban Health in all Policies, Richmond, CA

Urbansim 

Citizen Science and air pollution 

Brazil Cadastro Unico 

Urban Environmental Justice 

Food Security and Opportunity Zones 

Cities and Climate Change 

Richmond Health Equity Partnership 

Brazil Favela Health 

Women, Sanitation and Services 

Immigrants and Transit Access 

Public and Private Mass Transit 

Walking and Cycling in the City 

Research Projects

Publications