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 PROJECT
INVESTING IN CALIFORNIA'S AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDENTS: COLLEGE CHOICE, DIVERSITY & EXCLUSION
This report represents a statewide examination of the college admissions and choice process as experienced by African American students admitted to the UC system for the Fall 2015 admissions cycle. The report was written by the Principal Investigators of Project Excel (Examining College Choice, Enrollment & Linkages) who are faculty across four UC campuses, including IURD Associate Director, Malo Hutson.
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