GCRF Centre for Sustainable, Healthy, and Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods (CSHLH)

城镇化有利于推动可持续发展。然而，在城市内部，贫困和不平等最为严重，在低收入和中等收入国家，农村向城市迁移导致的快速增长构成了全球性的挑战。发展中国家的全球城市政策往往在非常普遍的层面上运作；对城市化的研究和理解是零散的，主要集中在贫民窟的条件和生活上。关于可持续发展的辩论往往集中在高层，强调城市化的物质和环境方面。我们对发展中国家快速发展的城市的社会、经济和物质结构以及它们如何变化知之甚少，特别是在社区一级。除了贫民窟，在快速发展的城市中还出现了许多不同类型的城市社区。有些是成功的和可持续的，这为贫民窟居民提供了灵感。我们对城市化的二元性的方法认识到可持续城市、教育和健康之间复杂的相互关系，在城市社区的层面上。可持续发展的城市取决于具有健康带来的复原力和资源的人口，也取决于相关的学习。同样，获得保健和优质教育的机会取决于城市及其社区的可持续发展。我们中心的总体目标是通过一系列培训项目/研讨会，以及通过对城市化和城市地区社区形成和分化的多学科和比较研究，提高发展中国家和英国的研究能力，以应对非洲和亚洲城市化和大规模农村向城市迁移的挑战。该项目利用格拉斯哥大学对发展中国家的浓厚兴趣和与发展中国家的学术联系。它汇集了来自七个发展中国家（南非、卢旺达、坦桑尼亚、印度、孟加拉国、菲律宾和中国）的多学科学者（包括城市研究、健康和福祉以及教育）和国际专家，组成了一个国际城市研究中心和一个新的联盟，以促进和实施能力加强培训和知识交流活动。能力加强计划将包括从国际知识库向发展中国家的纵向思想流动，以及发展中国家之间，特别是金砖国家与其他国家之间的横向学习和知识交流。它还将对城市邻里动态进行大规模的跨国比较研究。研究方案将在所有7个国家（和14个案例研究城市）采用一个共同的研究框架，通过四个工作包开发新的研究方法和技术。我们的能力提升、研究活动和影响活动将超越研究团队和伙伴机构，让地方和国家决策者、其他机构的学者、相关非政府组织和私营部门行动者参与进来。了解社会经济变化，特别是移民，如何推动城市的社会和空间结构，塑造居民的生活经验，是规划城市公共服务和寻找有利于福利和稳定的社会组织形式的重要基础。这对决策者尤其重要，因为他们正进入城市发展的新阶段，生活质量和社会凝聚力日益重要，城市经济竞争力不能再依赖于低工资和廉价产品。该研究将确定城市规划和公共服务的变化，因为它与城市社区有关，并将其与社区生活日常经验的深入研究结合起来。

Urbanisation can help drive sustainable development. However, within cities, poverty and inequalities are at their most acute, and in lower- and middle-income countries, rapid growth due to rural-urban migration poses challenges of global proportions. Global urban policies for developing countries tend to operate at a very general level; research and understanding of urbanisation are fragmented and mainly focused on the conditions and life in slum areas. Sustainable development debates tend to concentrate at high levels and emphasise the physical and environmental aspects of urbanisation. We know very little about the social, economic and physical structures of fast growing cities in developing countries and how they are changing, especially at neighbourhood level. Apart from slums, there are many different types of urban neighbourhoods emerging in fast growing cities. Some are successful and sustainable, which offers inspiration for slum dwellers. Our approach to the dualities of urbanisation recognises the complex inter-relationships between sustainable cities, education and health, at the level of the urban neighbourhood. Sustainable cities depend on a population with the resilience and resources that health brings, and on relevant learning. Equally, access to healthcare and quality education depend on the sustainable development of cities and the neighbourhoods within them.The overall aim of our Centre is to grow research capacity in both developing countries and the UK through a series of training programmes/workshops and by means of multi-disciplinary and comparative studies of urbanisation and the formation and differentiation of neighbourhoods in urban areas, in order to address the challenges of urbanisation and large scale rural to urban migration in Africa and Asia. This programme draws on strong interests in and academic connection to developing countries at the University of Glasgow. It brings together a multi-disciplinary academics (including urban studies, health and wellbeing, and education) and international experts from seven developing countries (South Africa, Rwanda, Tanzania, India, Bangladesh, Philippines and China) to form an international urban research centre and a new consortium to facilitate and implement capacity strengthening training and knowledge exchange activities. The capacity strengthening programme will consist of both vertical flows of ideas from international knowledge base to developing countries, but also horizontal learning and knowledge exchange between developing countries, especially between the BRICS countries and the others. It will also conduct large scale cross-country comparative studies of urban neighbourhood dynamics. The research programme will adopt a common research framework in all seven countries (and 14 case study cities) to develop new research methods and techniques through four work packages. Our capacity enhancing, research activities and impact activities will extend beyond the research teams and partner institutions to involve local and national policy makers, academics based in other institutions, and relevant NGOs and private sector actors.Understanding how socio-economic changes, particularly migration, are driving the social and spatial structures of cities and shaping the lived experience of residents is an essential foundation for planning urban public services and finding forms of social organisation that are beneficial to welfare and stability. This is particularly relevant to policy makers as they move into a new phase of urban development where quality of life and social cohesion are increasingly important, and where urban economic competitiveness can no longer rely on low wages and cheap products. The research will identify urban planning and public service change as it relates to urban neighbourhoods and position this alongside an in-depth study of daily experiences of neighbourhood life.