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The researchers within Urban Geographies study the processes that shape cities and urban life across the world. Our research concentrates on the formation of urban difference and inequality. It seeks to understand how specific spaces, places and mobilities reflect, reproduce and transform social differentiation in terms of class, ethnicity, generation, gender and sexuality.
Urban Geographies

Urban Geographies studies how resources, risks and political voice are distributed unevenly across urban spaces and populations, analyzing geographies of inequality within and between city regions.

Much of our scholarship has concentrated on larger transformations affecting cities (e.g. gentrification, tourism, migration, shrinkage, demographic change) and the inequalities and segregation that accompany these shifts (e.g. differentiated access to income, housing, education, labor markets).

The group is also committed to developing a comparative urban geography that can distinguish between place-based specificities and more generalizable patterns of urbanization. Group members employ a range of quantitative, qualitative and spatial methods, allowing us both to map macro-level patterns and transformations over time, and to grasp the lived experience of such dynamics.

Our projects

Programme group leader

Prof. dr. R.K. (Rivke) Jaffe

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

GPIO : Urban Geographies

Research staff