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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 architechture, 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
autonomous village
- arcology - architecture -
allotment (gardening) - autonomous building - bicycle-friendly - biohazard response - bioterrorism - built environment - car-free zone - car-pool lane - city - consumerism - commuting - community currency - community emergency response team - co-housing - congestion charge - ecological health - environmental health - economies of agglomeration - ecological footprint - Eco-Industrial Park - eco-village - energy -electricity
generation - externality - farmers market - flash mob - haram - human development theory -
hard energy - infrastructural capital - industrial ecology - land ethic - landscape architecture - mass transit - pedestrian-friendly -
pedestrian overpass - pedestrian underpass - personal rapid transit - planned cities -
political economy - productivism - quantitative development - respiratory health - rural - recycling - regenerative development - regenerative finance -
service economy - soft energy - seven-generation sustainability - suburban - suburban colonization - sewage system - smog - street reclaiming - traffic calming -
toll bridge - toll road -
terrorism - urban - urban debt - urban secession - urban sprawl - urbanization - urban car - urban design - urban
ecology - urban exploration - urban planning - urban planner - urban outdoorsman - urban wilderness - unemployment - waste economy - zoning
Famous urbanists
- Christopher Alexander, author of The Nature of
Order
- Stewart Brand, author of How Buildings
Learn
- Jane Jacobs, author of Death and
Life of Great Cities
- Lewis Mumford, author of Technics and
Civilization and The Culture of Cities
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