About Us
Contemporary global processes of social, cultural, economic, political and environmental change continue to drive the complex transformation of urban and regional geographies and their environments in Australia and internationally. These transformations produce critical challenges for urban and regional governance, for the prospects of creating just and sustainable urban and regional communities, economies and environments, and for devising public policy to guide inclusive forms of social, economic and urban development. From geographical and interdisciplinary perspectives, the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies at the University of Newcastle focuses on geographical analysis of the factors driving urban and regional transformations, their outcomes and the policy challenges they present. Through basic, applied and community-engaged research, conducted at multiple-scales, CURS' research contributes theoretically informed and empirically grounded knowledge and policy-relevant insights on the processes, dynamics and challenges of urban and regional change and development, focusing on three key research areas.
Research Areas
Through our research, members of the Centre are investigating diverse facets of the transformation of urban and regional spaces, at scales ranging from the neighbourhood to the global. CURS' research agenda is focused on three key research areas, each one addressing the challenges of contemporary urban and regional change:
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