The Urban Studies Institute is a platform for urban sociologists, ecologists, economic geographers and transport economists, urban historians, literary scientists and city planners who firmly believe in the added value of interdisciplinary collaboration and an integrated and generalised approach.
The following research groups are involved:
- Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (ARIA)
- Centre for Migration and Intercultural Studies (CeMIS, Sociology Departement, SW)
- Centre on Inequalities, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City (OASeS, Sociology Departement, SW)
- Centre for Urban History (History Departement, FLW)
- Department of Transport and Regional Economics (TEW)
- Faculty of Design Sciences, Department of Architecture
- Institute for Environment & Sustainable Development (IMDO)
- MOdeling of Systems And Internet Communication (MOSAIC, Department of Mathematics)
- Research group Literature & Modernity (FLW)
- Research group Society and Environment (Sociology Departement, SW)
- Visual & Digital Cultures Research Center (ViDi, Sociology Department, SW)