Global Urban Research Unit (GURU)

The Global Urban Research Unit combines traditional and innovative approaches to the analysis of strategic planning and spatial policy, critically focused on a better understanding of place and its potential sustainable transformation.

Services Offered

The Global Urban Research Unit (GURU) executes high quality research and consultancy for a range of funding bodies. Its work is primarily focused on developing a better understanding of place and its potential transformation. Our work is theoretically informed but applied, inter-disciplinary, and internationally focused.

GURU work is conducted under three over-lapping themes:

  • Spatial Planning and Environment
  • Cities and International Development
  • Place and Social Cohesion

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