In order to adequately address its research and training topic, the UrbEUROPE network has the ambition to develop a meta-project, aimed at linking the outputs of recent and/or ongoing research in different disciplines involving the urban dimension of Europe.
The establishment of this link is organised around three main areas of analysis:
- The analysis of how global changes and local impacts are conceptualised in theories and through which methods they are investigated;
- The analysis of how changes impacted on the built environment (gentrification, sub-urbanization and segregation);
- The analysis of how the changes impacted on the role of local social policies and governance.
The investigation of these three areas – highly interrelated one another – has the main goal of attaining a better understanding of the tension between identity and change in European Cities (the local-global link), of the existing differences and of the directions of change (the convergence-divergence hypothesis). Each area of investigation, however, has specific objectives.
