The Urban Studies priority research programme unites the following research groups in the Faculty:

• Urban Geographies,  led by Sako Musterd, also with Joos Droogleever Fortuijn and Lia Karsten;
• Planning, Institutions and Transforming Spaces,  led by Willem Salet, also with Luca Bertolini;
• Geographies of Globalizations,  led by Robert Kloosterman, also with Ewald Engelen;
• Governance of Sustainable Development,  led by Isa Baud;
• Dynamics of Citizenship and Culture,  led by Jan Willem Duyvendak and Christian Bröer.

Urban Studies is led by Jan Nijman. He will be supported by an Advisory Board with representatives of the constituent research groups (prof. dr. Baud, prof. ir. Bertolini, prof. dr. Duyvendak, prof. dr. Engelen, prof. dr. Kloosterman, prof. dr. Musterd, prof. dr. Rath, prof. dr. Salet, prof. dr. Tillie) with Maarten Hajer as external advisor. 

After an initial phase further collaboration is envisaged with other researchers within the faculty, elsewhere within the University of Amsterdam, with the VU University and with other organisations.