This module grounds students in an understanding of urbanism as ways of coming to know and experience the urban, with a focus on methodologies and practices. This encompasses numerous practical and creative interventions and styles of producing and performing the urban. This module presents advanced urban research as a fundamentally transdisciplinary field. Its emphasis is on engaged urbanism, work that critically and purposefully responds to the concrete problems and issues that are important to improving quality of life for city dwellers. This involves collaboration across disciplines and other knowledge silos, bringing theory and practice into productive interaction. Engaged urbanism increasingly takes place outside of traditional academic environments, featuring strong collaborations between academic, professional groups, community-based organisations, artists, activists and others. Students will be encouraged to develop an engaged, hands-on approach to urbanism that is sensitive to local contexts and employs collaborative, interactive and participatory methods. Through a survey, with examples from the modern city to the present, the course will locate different traditions, concepts and techniques for knowing the city historically and geographically, integrating material from a wide range of disciplines which feature the urban (e.g. anthropology, architecture, art history, engineering, fine art, heritage studies, literature, philosophy, planning, sexuality studies and urban history). Urbanism is presented as a broad endeavour, focused on understanding urban life and culture, the analysis of urban development, and the advancement of urban knowledge and positive interventions in the planning, design and management of human settlements. The survey will highlight different ontological and epistemological positions and configurations between theoretical and empirical work, the varied forms of data that shape cities, and questions of research ethics, positionality and collaboration. In order to advance experimental urbanism, students are exposed to novel uses and combinations of research practice that challenge orthodoxies in the production of urban knowledge and planning of cities. Students are guided to undertake specialist reading around a particular method, or intersection of methods, leading to an essay.