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About CURE

The Centre for Urban Research and Education (CURE) is a multi-disciplinary network of researchers, primarily from Carleton University, who share an interest and commitment to strengthening municipal and urban affairs.

Vision and Goals

The Research Team

Research Activities

The CURE network is involved in a variety of projects across a broad range of topics. Our current projects include:

Prioritizing Local Infrastructure Needs: The Role of Municipal Government and Community Networks in Building Local Governance Capacity (Neighbourhood Planning Initiative)

Gas Tax and Urban Infrastructure

Resource Centre

The Centre for Urban Research and Education (CURE) network is creating and supporting an online resource centre to provide access to academic and practitioner papers, community/media articles, links and other resources relevant to our work. In the longer term, we hope to catalogue and provide search capacity for these resources.

  1. CURE Reports and Papers
  2. Academic and Practitioner Papers
  3. Community/Media Articles
  4. Links

New Features

  1. Research in Action: A Conversation on Community
    Engagement Initiatives

CURE welcomed students, faculty and staff to join us in a critical conversation on March 7, 2008 about the role of university researchers in community action projects, and to reflect on what the Neighbourhood Planning Initiative has meant for Hintonburg so far. Download the presentation here...

  1. Have your Say: A Monitoring Survey of the City of Ottawa 's Neighbourhood Planning Initiative 

Carleton University 's Centre for Urban Research and Education (CURE) would like to hear what you have to say about how Hintonburg's Neighbourhoold Planning Initiative is doing so far. We ask that you complete this survey before 15 March 2008, more...

  1. Examining the Neighbourhood Planning Initiative: Can it renew Ottawa 's communities and the city as a whole? 

Join residents, city staff and observers from Carleton University 's Centre for Urban Research and Education (CURE) as they reflect on what the process has meant for their neighbourhood, and get a preview of what the NPI may bring to yours.  Saturday October 20, 2007.1:30-3:30 p.m., Dominion-Chalmers United Church, 335 Cooper Street (at O'Connor), Ottawa, more...
 
 

Did you know?

In 2006, nearly 25 million people, more than 80% of Canadians, were living in urban areas. Source: Statistics Canada , 2006

Partners

Our research is supported by Infrastructure Canada. Other partners include the City of Ottawa and within Carleton University, the Faculty of Public Affairs, and the Centre for Voluntary Sector Research and Development.

Centre for Urban Research and Education
Carleton University
Ottawa, Canada

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