Concept information
Preferred term
urban geography
Definition
- The dawn of the 21st century ushered in an era when, for the first time in the history of humanity, the majority of people on the planet live in urban areas. More than ever before, cities are now at the core of defining the human experience, for better or for worse. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geography; Urban Geography]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- built environment
- built-up areas
- census tracts
- central business districts
- Chicago school of sociology
- city government
- city maps
- cognitive models of space
- commuting
- counterurbanization
- derelict zones
- edge cities
- edge city
- exopolis
- exurbs
- filtering
- fourth world
- gated community
- ghettos
- global cities
- growth machines
- historic preservation
- housing markets
- housing policy
- invasion-succession
- locally unwanted land uses
- location theory
- Los Angeles school
- los angeles school of urban studies
- megalopolis
- metropolitan
- metropolitan areas
- metropolitan region
- neighborhood change
- neighborhoods
- new urbanism
- NIMBYism
- open space
- participatory planning
- patchwork urbanism
- primate cities
- public-private partnerships
- public space
- rank-size rule
- rent gap
- rural-urban continuum
- rural-urban migration
- settlement geography
- smart growth
- squatter settlements
- suburban land use
- suburbs
- suburbs and suburbanization
- Sunbelt
- sustainable cities
- time geography
- township and range system
- urban and regional development
- urban and regional planning
- urban ecology
- urban entrepreneurialism
- urban environmental studies
- urban fringe
- urban gardens
- urban green space
- urban hierarchy
- urbanization
- urban land use
- urban managerialism
- urban morphology
- urban planning and geography
- urban policy
- urban social movements
- urban spatial structure
- urban sprawl
- urban underclass
- world cities
- zoning
Belongs to group
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/urban_geography
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