 Its research programme in city science concentrates on applying social physics to urban systems based on modelling the diffusion of behaviours such as the 2011 London riots and it is heavily involved in using methods of scaling and allometry to examine city performance.CASA’s research programme is primarily funded by research grants from the British research councils, mainly ESRC and EPSRC.Since 2008, the centre has been increasingly funded by EU research grants from the 7th Framework and from the European Research Council (ERC) and in 2014, it was awarded funding from the Technology Strategy Board's Future Cities Catapult  to provide demonstration capabilities for urban and regional modelling.