KNOW: Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality

Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality (henceforth KNOW) is an ambitious research programme that will bring together a global network of urban specialists working together to deliver cities for all. KNOW is guided by the aspiration to produce more equal cities and focuses on three challenges: delivering prosperity, tackling extreme poverty and building resilient cities. With UCL's Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU) at the forefront of a network of institutions across 9 countries, KNOW seeks to co-produce a combination of city-based research and partnerships of equivalence that will challenge the structural cause of inequality in contemporary cities. Professor Caren Levy (DPU, UCL) will lead a global partnership to deliver transformative research and capacity for innovation in policy and planning that will promote urban equality. A consortium of researchers based at UCL, University of Durham, IIHS (Indian Institute of Human Settlements, India), Ardhi University (Tanzania) and FLACSO (Latin-American Social Sciences Institute, Costa Rica), KNOW will work with local academic and community-based partners in Sierra Leone, Uganda and Tanzania, Cuba, Peru, Costa Rica and Colombia, India and Sri Lanka. With a budget of over £7 million, KNOW will run to the end of 2021, creating a network of Urban Learning Hubs that will continue the work beyond the end of the project.