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Cities Research

The question 'What is a Good City?' is at the heart of our research, which focuses on three challenges and three cross-cutting themes.

Our Research

The Centre focuses on the 3 most critical challenges faced by cities across the globe: Inequality & Inclusion, Digitalization, and Sustainability & Resilience. Each challenge is examined through 3 cross-cutting themes: Defining and Experiencing Cities, Constructing and Designing Cities, and Governing and Managing Cities. The Centre brings together a diverse network of researchers working on a range of projects. The over-arching What is a Good City? project goes beyond the challenges and themes and explores ideas and examples on what makes a 'good' city.

What is a good city?

Exploring ideas, experiences, and examples of 'good' cities with researchers from Newcastle University, city makers and city dwellers.

Research Projects

Find out more about out research projects.

Just City

Newcastle- Helsinki Partnership

Challenges

Equality and Inclusion

Rising inequalities is a key challenge facing cities across the world.

Digitalisation

Digital technology provides both opportunities and challenges to cities.

Sustainability and Resilience

Helping to realise cities that are both resilient and sustainable.

Cross-Cutting Themes

Defining and Experiencing Cities

How do different social, cultural, and ethnic groups understand, represent, and live in cities?

Designing and Constructing Cities

Covering the built environment in cities, this theme focuses on the interplay of hard and soft infrastructure.

Governing and Managing Cities

How does the crisis of representative democracy impact cities?

Research Projects
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