urban studies
English
Noun
urban studies (uncountable)
- The study of the urban development of cities.
- Synonym: urbanistics
- Coordinate term: urbanism
- 2013, Mark Davidson; Deborah Martin, chapter 8, in Urban Politics: Critical Approaches, SAGE, →ISBN:
- We might say that there has been a 'queering' of urban studies insofar as the metropolitan lives, subcultures and social movements of gays and lesbians are now seen as valid objects of study.
Noun
urban studies pl (plural only)
- Individual studies carried out on this topic.
- 2013, Masashi Haneda, Islamic Urban Studies, Routledge, →ISBN, page 185:
- Urban studies of cities other than Istanbul hardly existed until two decades ago. Though cities were frequently mentioned in historical studies about the socio-economic formation of the Ottoman Empire, the city itself was seldom the primary target of concern.
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See also
- urbanism
- urban planning
Further reading
- urban studies on Wikipedia.Wikipedia