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 AND SELECT PROJECTS
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
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
Publications