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Cairo
Joseph Ben Prestel
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2020-10-15
CairoIntroductionMuch like the vibrant city on the Nile itself, scholarship on Cairo has seen many changes in recent years. The continued growth of th...
Cape Town
Warren Smit
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2020-10-15
Cape TownIntroductionCape Town is the second-largest city in South Africa, with a population of over four million people. Established by Dutch colonis...
Climate Change and Cities
Sara Hughes
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2020-10-15
Climate Change and CitiesIntroductionCities are playing an increasingly important role in addressing climate change, adopting increasingly ambitious p...
Commons, Urban
Sheila R. Foster, Christian Iaione
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2020-10-15
Urban CommonsIntroductionWith global urbanization rapidly increasing and with over half of the world’s population already living in cities, the framew...
Delhi
Anish Vanaik
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2020-10-15
DelhiIntroductionDelhi has a unique place among the three big metropolises of India. Compared to Mumbai and Kolkata, Delhi’s history is much older: st...
Early American Republic, Cities in the
A. Kristen Foster
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2020-10-15
Cities in the Early American RepublicIntroductionCities in America’s early republic developed on the edge of two worlds. The majority of these urban a...
Economics, Urban
Kristian Behrens, Jacques-François Thisse
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2020-10-15
Urban EconomicsIntroductionLocation matters. The most striking example is the highly uneven distribution of population and wealth across space. For ex...
Harvey, David
Elvin Wyly
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2020-10-15
David HarveyIntroductionDavid Harvey (b. 1935) is an influential urban theorist, and the world’s most widely cited geographer. He is a distinguished p...
Infrastructure, Urban
Weiping Wu, Deepa Mehta
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2020-10-15
Urban InfrastructureIntroductionInfrastructure has an indispensable, positive role in development. There has been much written about the role of urban...
Innovation Systems, Urban
Willem van Winden
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2020-10-15
Urban Innovation SystemsIntroductionThere are good reasons to study urban innovation from a systemic perspective. A key finding in innovation research...
Kigali
Phillip Cantrell
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2020-10-15
KigaliIntroductionKigali is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Rwanda. The founding of the city is credited to Dr. Richard Kandt (b. 1867...
Kyiv
Olena Betlii
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2020-10-15
KyivIntroductionUrban studies is still an undeveloped field in Ukraine, partly as a result of a lack of field institutionalization at Ukrainian univer...
Lagos
Liora Bigon
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2020-10-15
LagosIntroductionLagos, the erstwhile political capital of Nigeria (1914‒1991), still constitutes the country’s commercial capital and a prominent por...
Lefebvre, Henri
Andy Zieleniec
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2020-10-15
Henri LefebvreIntroductionHenri Lefebvre is now established as one of the most important social theorists of the 20th century. Over a long life (b. 19...
Megaprojects
Shankar Sankaran, Daphne Freeder, Alexandra Pitsis, Stewart Clegg, Nathalie Drouin, Marie-Andrée Caron
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2020-10-15
MegaprojectsIntroduction“Megaprojects” is a term used to refer to projects and events that encompass large-scale projects in size, cost, space, time, ...
Mexico City
Alejandra María Leal Martínez
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2020-10-15
Mexico CityIntroductionNumerous urban scholars have been studying Mexico City—the capital of Mexico—since at least the 1970s, drawn to its remarkable ...
Morphology, Urban
Vítor Oliveira
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2020-10-15
Urban MorphologyIntroductionUrban morphology is the study of urban forms and of the agents and processes responsible for their transformation over tim...
Moscow
Adrienne M. Harris
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2021-07-28
MoscowIntroductionAccording to the 2010 census, Moscow’s 11.5 million inhabitants make it the largest city in Europe. The city has the distinction of ...
Mumbai
Anitra Baliga
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2021-11-23
MumbaiIntroductionMumbai over the past decade and a half has seen a shift within urban studies. It has moved from a relatively marginal position to be...
Natural Disasters and their Impact on Cities
Mark Skidmore, Jungmin Lim
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2020-10-15
Natural Disasters and their Impact on CitiesIntroductionTwo significant trends suggest that it will be increasingly important to consider urban resili...
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