Urban culture

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Urban culture is the culture of towns and cities. All over the world, past and present, these settlements have behaviors and cultural elements that separate them from otherwise comparable rural areas.

In the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada "urban" is often used as a euphemism to describe modern culture of inner city life. Typically, it contains street dancing or break dancing, hip hop music or rapping, house or techno music, turntablism, or other activities developed in inner-cities and made popular through commercialization. Hence names for cultural artifacts like urban music could be seen as a new term for "Race music". It can also refer to the greater availability of cultural resources (such as art, theatre, events, etc) as compared to suburban or rural areas.

United States urbanization, which began in the late 19th century, created many new cities. Cities sprang up, which attracted industry, which attracted people. The population in these new cities grew rapidly. Many farmers, immigrants, and African Americans from the South came to these major cities in search of jobs and entertainment.

See also

• Chicago School (sociology)
• Cyber (subculture)
• Futurism
• Graffiti
• Hip hop music
• Principles of Intelligent Urbanism
• Urbanism
• Urban economics
• Urban exploration
• Urban sociology