Science for Better Cities

Cities are growing, worldwide. At the same time, studies show that people in cities are more likely to suffer from mental illness and are more often stressed and lonely. How does living in urban environments influence our psychological well-being - and how can we make our cities even more liveable? Neurorurbanism addresses those issues from an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspective, bringing scientists and practitioners together to break new ground in the study of cities and the psyche. We aim at promoting neurourbanistic agendas on two fronts. There is first of all, the Interdisciplinary Forum Neurourbanism (IFNU), which has recently also become a citizen science organization. And there is the Research Platform Neurourbanism (RPN) that unifies research coordinated in Berlin and on which this website informs you.