# Centre for Researching Cities
**Source**: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/cities/
**Parent**: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/undergraduate/
[Research Centres](https://www.ncl.ac.uk/cities/)
- [Our People](https://www.ncl.ac.uk/cities/people/)
- [News & Events](https://www.ncl.ac.uk/cities/cities-news/)
- [Get in Touch](https://www.ncl.ac.uk/cities/contact-us/)
[Logo](https://www.ncl.ac.uk/ "Newcastle University")
Research Centres
- [Our Research](https://www.ncl.ac.uk/cities/research/)
[Our Research](https://www.ncl.ac.uk/cities/research/)
- [Projects](https://www.ncl.ac.uk/cities/research/projects/)
- [What is a good City?](https://www.ncl.ac.uk/cities/research/what-is-a-good-city-/)
- [About the Good City Project](https://www.ncl.ac.uk/cities/research/what-is-a-good-city-/about-the-good-city-project/)
- [Good City Glossary](https://www.ncl.ac.uk/cities/research/what-is-a-good-city-/good-city-glossary/)
- [Good City Question](https://www.ncl.ac.uk/cities/research/what-is-a-good-city-/good-city-question/)
- [What Makes A Good City? Workshop Reflections](https://www.ncl.ac.uk/cities/research/what-is-a-good-city-/what-makes-a-good-city-workshop-reflections/)
- [Thoughts on the Good City](https://www.ncl.ac.uk/cities/research/what-is-a-good-city-/thoughts-on-the-good-city/)
- [Good City Documentary](https://www.ncl.ac.uk/cities/research/what-is-a-good-city-/good-city-documentary/)
- [Good City Interviews](https://www.ncl.ac.uk/cities/research/what-is-a-good-city-/good-city-interviews/)
- [The Good City Roundtable](https://www.ncl.ac.uk/cities/research/what-is-a-good-city-/the-good-city-roundtable/)
- [Just City](https://www.ncl.ac.uk/cities/research/university-city-research/)
- [Postgraduate Researchers’ Blog competition](https://www.ncl.ac.uk/cities/research/university-city-research/university-blog-justcity-/)
- [Just City Workshop 2](https://www.ncl.ac.uk/cities/research/university-city-research/just-city/)
- [Engage with Us](https://www.ncl.ac.uk/cities/engage-with-us/)
- [Learn with Us](https://www.ncl.ac.uk/cities/learn-with-us/)
- [Events](https://www.ncl.ac.uk/cities/events/)
- [Our People](https://www.ncl.ac.uk/cities/people/)
- [News & Events](https://www.ncl.ac.uk/cities/cities-news/)
- [Get in Touch](https://www.ncl.ac.uk/cities/contact-us/)
Search for something
Search...
Search...
## Our Mission
Cities are the concentration of **social**, **infrastructural,** and **economic** activity in space. Defined by **density**, **proximity,** and **juxtaposition**, cities act as **accelerators of change**. They concentrate vulnerabilites and amplify inequalities. These attributes put cities in the forefront of efforts to address overarching societal and global challenges.
These challenges do not simply happen incities. **Cities exacerbate or ease them.**
We have a unique understanding of cities which brings together **urban systems** and **technologies** with **social**and **spatial governance** and**justice**.
The purpose of the Centre for Researching Cities is to add value by harnessing and integrating Newcastle University’s existing world- class expertise in urban research to better address these pressing multi-disciplinary and international challenges. Developing a unique understanding of cities as complex and open systems, the Centre will bring together research on urban systems and technologies with work on social and spatial governance and justice. Its scope is necessarily broad, reflecting the cross-cutting nature of cities as research objects, alongside the diverse and complementary strengths of cities research at Newcastle.
Rather than seeking to incorporate the range of research topics and questions that may be located in cities, the Centre is focused on research about cities, advancing cities research both theoretically and empirically and addressing distinct urban challenges and themes.
Our mission is to harness and integrate our **world-class expertise** in **urban research,** to better address these pressing multidisciplinary and international challenges. We want to work on cities, with cities and for cities to envisage and enable just, inclusive and sustainable urban futures.
[## Our research
Our cities research focuses on three challenges and three cross-cutting themes.](https://www.ncl.ac.uk/cities/research/)
[## Engage with us
We form research partnerships with professionals, policymakers, businesses, and communities.](https://www.ncl.ac.uk/cities//engage-with-us/)
[## Learn with us
Find out more about our undergraduate and postgraduate courses or PhD opportunities.](https://www.ncl.ac.uk/cities/learn-with-us/)
## Latest from Newcastle
[17 November 2025](https://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles/latest/2025/11/homeworkinglordscommittee/)
[#### Newcastle academics give expert advice to Lords Committee](https://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles/latest/2025/11/homeworkinglordscommittee/)
Two Newcastle University academics have made a major contribution to a House of Lords Committee report that found home working could support the Government’s plans to get people back into work.
[06 November 2025](https://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles/latest/2025/11/commentmamdanivictory/)
[#### Comment: How Mamdani’s ‘talent for listening’ spurred him to victory](https://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles/latest/2025/11/commentmamdanivictory/)
Writing for The Conversation, Daniel Hutton Ferris discusses how Zohran Mamdani's listening and reflective approach helped him win the New York mayoral election.
[23 October 2025](https://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles/latest/2025/10/commentchildrensplaystreets/)
[#### Comment: Children should have a right to play in their neighbourhoods](https://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles/latest/2025/10/commentchildrensplaystreets/)
Writing for The Conversation, Alison Stenning discusses the debate around whether children should only play in designated spaces or if they should be able to play in their neighbourhood.
[Our people](https://www.ncl.ac.uk/cities/people/)
[Our research](https://www.ncl.ac.uk/cities/research/)
[Get in touch](https://www.ncl.ac.uk/cities/contact-us/)