Research

'Understanding for an Urban Planet'

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's work is organised around four over-lapping themes:

For more information contact g.i.vigar@ncl.ac.uk

GURU is situated in the School of Architecture Planning and Landscape at Newcastle University