Urban studies is the diverse range of disciplines and approaches to the study of all aspects of cities, their suburbs, and other urban areas. This includes among others: urban economics, urban planning, urban ecology, urban transportation systems, urban politics, sociology and urban social relations. This can be contrasted with the study of rural areas and rural lifestyles.
architecture
arcology
allotment (gardening)
Automobile dependency
autonomous building
Bat-Yam International Biennale of Landscape Urbanism
Beijing Planning Exhibition Hall
bicycle-friendly
built environment
car-free zone
car-pool lane
Central business district
city
City limits
community
community currency
community emergency response team
commuting
Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
congestion charge
consumerism
co-housing
cultural diversity
eco-industrial park
eco-village
ecological health
ecological footprint
ecological sanitation
ecology
economies of agglomeration
education
electricity generation
energy
environmental health
environmental studies
externality
farmers market
flash mob
gentrification
Global city
Grand Paris
Hudson's village model
human development theory
infrastructural capital
industrial ecology
juvenile justice
land ethic
landscape architecture
Larger Urban Zones
mass transit
Moscow Urban Forum
Museums
Music
neighborhood
Neighbourhood character
New pedestrianism
New urbanism
Overcrowding
pedestrian-friendly
pedestrian overpass
pedestrian underpass
personal rapid transit
Place
Place identity
Placemaking
Planetizen
planned cities
political economy
productivism
Public space
public transport
Principles of Intelligent Urbanism
Radical planning
recycling
redlining
Regional planning
rural
schools
service economy
seven-generation sustainability
sewage system
Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center
shared space
shift-share
smog
Sociology
soft energy
street reclaiming
suburban
suburban colonization
traffic calming
toll bridge
toll road
terrorism
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
transit-oriented development
urbanization
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Urban sociology is the sociological study of cities and urban life. One of the field’s oldest sub-disciplines, urban sociology studies and examines the social, historical, political, cultural, economic, and environmental forces that have shaped urban environments. Like most areas of sociology, urban sociologists use statistical analysis, observation, archival research, U.S.
Urban studies or pre-urban planning education is based on the study of the urban development of cities. This includes studying the history of city development from an architectural point of view, to the impact of urban design on community development efforts. The core theoretical and methodological concerns of the urban studies field come from the academic disciplines of history, economics, sociology, geography, political science, anthropology, civil engineering, environmental studies, business administration, and the professional fields of urban planning, architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design.
Urban history is a field of history that examines the historical nature of cities and towns, and the process of urbanization. The approach is often multidisciplinary, crossing boundaries into fields like social history, architectural history, urban sociology, urban geography, business history, and archaeology. Urbanization and industrialization were popular themes for 20th-century historians, often tied to an implicit model of modernization, or the transformation of rural traditional societies.
En poursuivant notre exploration de l'architecture du stockage, nous nous pencherons sur l'opposition entre formalisme et réalisme dans le cadre d'un projet de transformation de logements dans la vill
En poursuivant notre exploration de l'architecture du stockage, nous nous pencherons sur l'opposition entre formalisme et réalisme dans le cadre d'un projet de transformation de logements dans la vill
Ce cours a pour but d'exposer l'étudiant-e à la problématique de la répartition spatiale des activités économiques, en couvrant l'ensemble de ces activités, de l'agriculture aux services, dans une per
Representations of the pedestrian as a sole and healthy individual do not correspond to the reality and diversity of walking practices. The majority of urban pedestrians has to deal with constraints to their degrees of freedom in walking. We propose a typo ...
This book offers an interdisciplinary and dynamic account of the politicization of urban planning in Mumbai, India. It presents a unique perspective on the tensions and conflicts pervading the development and regulation of contemporary cities in the wider ...
This article theorizes the "narrative turn" in urban planning studies, using Gerard Genette's work to differentiate first- and second-degree narratives. Genette defines the latter as paratexts that determine the public's reception of the former. The articl ...