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Organisation

Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research

Research Group

Main organisation:Research Council
Lifecycle:1 Dec 2001 →  Today
Organisation profile:

Cosmopolis is a research centre within the Department of Geography of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and is dedicated to research and teaching in geography, spatial planning and urban design. Committed to pursuing both academic and practice relevant research, Cosmopolis actively engages policy makers, governments, citizen networks and other urban partners to transform knowledge into action.

Keywords:human geography, urban design, spatial planning, cultural geography, urban geography, architecture, urbanism, economic geography, urban studies, political geography, governance
Disciplines:Architecture, Management, Applied sociology, Sociology of organisations and occupations, Urban and regional geography, Applied economics, Urban and regional design, development and planning, Landscape architecture