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.

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 

Urban Health in all Policies, Richmond, CA

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 

 Global Learning Exchange for Building Equitable & Healthy Communities

Advance Peace Urban Violence Reduction Learning & Evaluation

Immigrants and Transit Access 

Public and Private Mass Transit 

Walking and Cycling in the City 

Research Projects

Publications