The Münster Urban Research Network (MURN) was founded in the winter semester 2020/21 with the aim of networking the research on cities in the past and present being conducted at the University of Münster, promoting interdisciplinary and interepochal exchange and intensifying cooperation between Münster and national and international urban research. The participating academics want to develop, test and establish new forms and methods of co-operative and interdisciplinary urban research in the long term.