# Centre for URBan research (CURB) ‌

**Source**: https://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/research/groups/curb/
**Parent**: https://www.york.ac.uk/about/departments/

- [Study](https://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/study/)
- [People](https://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/people/)
- [Research](https://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/research/)
  - [Culture, Values and Practices](https://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/research/culture-values-practices/)
  - [Gender, Sexuality and Inequalities](https://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/research/gender-sexuality-inequalities/)
  - [Language and Social Interaction](https://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/research/language-social-interaction/)
  - [Science, Health and Technology](https://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/research/science-health-technology/)
  - [Current research students](https://www.york.ac.uk/health-sciences-new/people/)
  - [Postdoc opportunities](https://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/research/postdoc/)
  - [University research themes](https://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/research/university-research-themes/)
  - [Visiting researchers](https://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/research/visiting-researchers/)
  - [White Rose Social Sciences DTP](http://www.wrdtp.ac.uk)
- [Schools liaison and outreach](https://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/schools-liaison/)
- [About us](https://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/about/)
- [Contact us](https://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/contact/)
- [Current staff and students](https://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/current-staff-students/)

# Centre for URBan research (CURB) ‌

> ## [Welcome to CURB](https://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/research/groups/curb/welcometocurb/)
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> Curb[kurb]: the edge or margin of a road, the limit of a thoroughfare

> ## Events‌‌
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> **2 June 2021\**Online (Zoom)\
> [The limits to Urban Revolution: The Transformation of Ankara, Turkey, under the Justice and Development Party](https://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/about/events/2021/curb-summer-webinars-2/)\
> Dr Mustafa Kemal Bayırbağ, Dr Seth Schindler and Dr Mehmet Penpecioğlu
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> **12 May 2021\**Online (Zoom)\
> [Controlling the capital city: Understanding strategies for the pursuit of urban dominance](https://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/about/events/2021/curb-summer-webinars-1/)\
> Dr Tom Goodfellow and Dr David Jackman

> ## Research Outputs
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> '[Letting the brush lead: Mark Cousins, film-maker of the floating world](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1755458621000086)'. Daryl Martin
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> [‘What makes city life meaningful is the things we hide’](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13604813.2020.1718961) Gareth Millington and Vladimir Rizov
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> '[Mediterranean Migrant Crisis to a Europe Without Borders?](http://nearfuturesonline.org/palermo-open-city-from-the-mediterranean-migrant-crisis-to-a-europe-without-borders/)' Leoluca Orlando & Simon Parker
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> '[Disorderly Cities and the policy-making field: the 1981 English riots and the management of urban decline](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41293-018-00094-0)' Simon Parker & Rowland Atkinson
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> ['Policy pathways to justice in energy efficiency'](https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/139942/1/UKERC_Working_Paper_Policy_pathways_to_justice_in_energy_efficiency.pdf)Carolyn Snell, Mark Bevan and Ross Gillard

> ## [Podcasts and Archive](https://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/research/groups/curb/podcastsarchive/)
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> [Richard Webber: CURB Annual Pulic Lecture](https://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/research/groups/curb/podcastsarchive/webber/)

> [J.G Ballard: Concrete Island 40 Years On](http://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/research/groups/curb/podcastsarchive/ballard/)

> ## Contact
>
> **Centre for URBan research**
>
> University of York, Wentworth Graduate College Heslington, York, North Yorkshire, YO10 5DD
>
> [Daryl Martin](https://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/our-staff/academic/daryl-martin/)
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> daryl.martin@york.ac.uk

> ## [Staff](https://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/research/groups/curb/staff/)
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> [Simon Parker](https://www.york.ac.uk/politics/people/simon-parker/)\
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> [Daryl Martin](https://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/people/daryl-martin/)\
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> [Carolyn Snell](https://www.york.ac.uk/business-society/people/carolyn-snell/)\
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