buildings (structures)
type: Concept
broader: urban studies

béguinage
type: Concept
broader: urban studies

cities: historical overviews
type: Concept
broader: urban studies

concepts
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: urban studies

key people in urban studies
type: Concept
broader: urban studies

recreational areas
type: Concept
broader: urban studies

regional geography
type: Concept
narrower: urban studies

social space
type: Concept
broader: urban studies

sustainable urban development
type: Concept
broader: urban studies

urban architecture
type: Concept
broader: urban studies

urban culture
type: Concept
broader: urban studies

urban economics
type: Concept
broader: urban studies

urban geography
type: Concept
broader: urban studies

urban history
type: Concept
broader: urban studies

urban issues
type: Concept
broader: urban studies

urban places
type: Concept
broader: urban studies

urban planning
type: Concept
broader: urban studies

urban politics
type: Concept
broader: urban studies

urban sociology
type: Concept
broader: urban studies

urban studies
type: Concept
broader: regional geography
definition: Within the social sciences, the city is imagined as an object of society rather than a fact of nature (though scholars are increasingly blurring this distinction) and, in that vein, is conceived as a material space of functional and social relationships involving such physical objects as office towers, neighborhoods, and plazas. As a subfield of the social sciences, though, urban studies is awkwardly positioned in relationship to economics, sociology, political science, history, geography, and anthropology. [Source: Encyclopedia of Urban Studies; Urban Studies]
narrower: urban history
narrower: cities: historical overviews
narrower: recreational areas
narrower: urban transportation
narrower: urban politics
narrower: urban planning
narrower: urban geography
narrower: sustainable urban development
narrower: béguinage
narrower: urban issues
narrower: key people in urban studies
narrower: urban culture
narrower: urban economics
narrower: urban architecture
narrower: urban theory
narrower: buildings (structures)
narrower: urban sociology
narrower: urban places
narrower: social space

urban theory
type: Concept
broader: urban studies

urban transportation
type: Concept
broader: urban studies