Urban Innovation and Policy Laboratory
STEaPP's Urban Innovation and Policy Laboratory responds to pressing concerns about the future of cities and city leadership in the 21st century
The Lab's work is informed by critical questions for contemporary urbanism: What is the role of innovation and experimentation in cities, to foster sustainable urban development? How can expertise be mobilised to ensure that urban policies are inclusive of local needs? How can urban infrastructures be reconfigured to address climate change, reduce inequality and improve quality of life?
Selected projects
- Informal Governance Systems for Disaster Risk Reduction - what is the role of informal systems in tackling disasters? In collaboration with Red Cross and World Bank
- Vaccinating the Nexus - can cities learn from crisis? An EPSRC consortium analysing how to learn from shocks to the 'nexus'
- Urban Connections - investigating the global role of city leadership in partnership with the UK's ESRC, UN-Habitat and the World Bank
- Choreographing the City - what can choreographers teach engineers and urban planners about how to curate and design sustainable urban environments?
For a full list of projects, visit the Urban Innovation and Policy Laboratory website
STEaPP contributors
For more information about other members of the Lab, please visit the Urban Innovation and Policy Laboratory website.
| Dr Ellie Cosgrave is the Director of the Urban Innovation and Policy Laboratory; she is also Lecturer in Urban Innovation, UCL STEaPP and Lead on Choreographing the City |
| Jenny McArthur Lecturer in Urban Infrastructure and Policy |
| Dr Carla-Leanne Washbourne Lecturer in Environmental Science and Policy |
| Professor Greg Clark Visiting Professor |
| Enora Robin PhD candidate |
| Emilia Smeds PhD candidate |
| Asaf Tzachor DPA candidate |
Partners
- ESRC Economic and Social Research Council
- EPSRC - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
- UN-Habitat - United Nations Human Settlements Programme
- C40 Cities
- The World Bank
Contact details
For further information, please contact Dr Ellie Cosgrave.
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Lab projects
- Urban Connections in partnership with the World Bank
- Vaccinating the Nexus funded by EPSRC in partnership with Universities of Cambridge, Southampton, and Nottingham
- Climate Action in Megacities in partnership with ARUP and C40 cities
