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List of urban studies topics
Urban Studies is the scientific discipline that studies all aspects of cities, their suburbs, and other urban areas. This includes urban economics, urban planning, urban architecture, urban ecology, urban transportation systems, urban politics, and urban social relations. This can be contrasted with rural areas and rural lifestyles.
List of terms in urban studies
- architecture
- arcology
- allotment (gardening)
- Automobile dependency
- autonomous building
- autonomous village
- bicycle-friendly
- biohazard response
- bioterrorism
- built environment
- car-free zone
- car-pool lane
- city
- community
- community currency
- community emergency response team
- commuting
- congestion charge
- consumerism
- co-housing
- ecological health
- economies of agglomeration
- ecological footprint
- Eco-industrial park
- Ecological sanitation
- eco-village
- electricity generation
- energy
- environmental health
- environmental studies
- externality
- farmers market
- flash mob
- gentrification
- haram
- human development theory
- hard energy
- infrastructural capital
- industrial ecology
- land ethic
- landscape architecture
- mass transit
- neighborhood
- Neighbourhood character
- New urbanism
- pedestrian-friendly
- pedestrian overpass
- pedestrian underpass
- personal rapid transit
- Place
- Place identity
- Placemaking
- planned cities
- political economy
- productivism
- public transport
- quantitative development
- respiratory health
- recycling
- redlining
- regenerative development
- regenerative finance
- rural
- service economy
- seven-generation sustainability
- sewage system
- shared space
- shift-share
- smog
- soft energy
street reclaiming - suburban
- suburban colonization
- traffic calming
- toll bridge
- toll road
- terrorism
- transit-oriented development
- urbanization
- urban agriculture
- urban anthropology
- urban
- urban car
- urban culture
- urban decay
- urban debt
- urban design
urban ecology - urban exploration
- urban history
- urban outdoorsman
- urban planner
- urban planning
- urban renewal
- urban secession
- urban sociology
- urban sprawl
- urban tribe
- urban wilderness
- unemployment
- waste economy
- white flight
- zoning
Noted urbanists
- Christopher Alexander, author of The Nature of Order
- Stewart Brand, author of How Buildings Learn
- Jane Jacobs, author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- Lewis Mumford, author of Technics and Civilization and The Culture of Cities
- William H. Whyte, author of City: Rediscovering the Center
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