Welcome to UCL Urban Laboratory

We are a world-leading cross-disciplinary centre promoting critical, creative and collaborative inquiry into urgent urban problems, based at University College London

The Bartlett is Ranked Global #1 in 2024

For the second year running, The Bartlett has been ranked #1 in the world for Architecture and the Built Environment, and remains #1 in the UK for the tenth year in a row, in the QS World University Subject Rankings 2024.

Global Urbanism MASc

Applications are open for our new interdisciplinary MASc programme, which aims to equip urbanists with the critical skills and specialist knowledge to tackle urgent urban challenges and help shape fairer cities.

Global Urbanism MASc: Ruth Glass Scholarship

Find out more about the Ruth Glass Scholarship, a full scholarship covering fees and living costs for our new MASc programme.

Established in 2005, Urban Lab investigates, proposes and disseminates critical solutions to a wide range of social, physical and technological urban and built environment issues, with a focus on the grand challenges of our time.

We draw on a wide range of urban expertise and research methodologies, based on exchange and collaboration between researchers from across the institution, including The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, and UCL's faculties of Social and Historical Sciences, Engineering, and Arts and Humanities.

Urban Lab delivers the Global Urbanism MASc programme, a transdisciplinary postgraduate degree that cuts radically across arts, humanities, social sciences and technology studies.

We actively promote participatory approaches to urban research, working in partnership with a range of different non-academic, business, and community-based organisations.