Concept information
Preferred term
urban studies
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]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- béguinage
- buildings (structures)
- cities: historical overviews
- key people in urban studies
- recreational areas
- social space
- sustainable urban development
- urban architecture
- urban culture
- urban economics
- urban geography
- urban history
- urban issues
- urban places
- urban planning
- urban politics
- urban sociology
- urban theory
- urban transportation
Belongs to group
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/urban_studies
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