We investigate how cities emerge, organise and transform as complex socio-spatial systems shaped by information, interaction and inequality. By integrating analytical, computational and theoretical perspectives, we seek to understand how urban structures shape movement, perception and social relations, and how cities can better support more adaptive forms of collective life.
Our research
1. Urban Formation, Spatial Information and Urban Economies
We investigate how cities emerge and evolve as expressions of social, economic and technological forces, encoding information across spatial cultures, urban economies and everyday interaction.
2. Urban Form, Liveability and Environmental Experience
Urban form is something we move through, sense and inhabit. We examine how cities express and support social life, movement and environmental experience.
3. Sociospatial segregation, Inequality and Territorial Dynamics
We pioneered approaches to segregation in everyday mobility, street networks and relational location, moving beyond residential measures to understand how segregation is experienced and encoded in space.
4. The Forms of Segregation: Knowledge maps
Segregation has many names, forms and disciplinary languages. We introduced relational approaches to map segregation as a complex phenomenon and an expanding research field.
5. Cities as Complex Systems of Cooperation
We study cities as systems in which interaction, information, scaling and material organisation come together to coordinate action, manage entropy and uncertainty, and sustain collective life.
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