Urban Studies - I - Oxford Bibliographies
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...
Manila
Marco Garrido
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2022-01-12
ManilaIntroductionThe focus of this article is on Metropolitan Manila (or simply Manila), a region spanning 619 square kilometers and comprising sixte...
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...
Ottoman Empire, Cities of the
Ebru Boyar
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2020-10-15
Cities of the Ottoman EmpireIntroductionThe Ottoman city was characterized by being focused around the nucleus of a mosque, market, and public bath, c...
Paris
Andrew Newman
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2020-10-15
ParisIntroductionParis is the capital city of France and center of the Île-de-France region, Europe’s second-largest urban agglomeration. Paris is a g...
Peri-Urban Development
Yuze Yang, Lin Ye
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2020-10-15
Peri-Urban DevelopmentIntroductionThe study of urban periphery has become an emerging theme in urban and regional research in recent decades. Peri-urb...
Postcolonial Urbanism
Julie Ren
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2020-10-15
Postcolonial UrbanismIntroductionPostcolonial urbanism encompasses a range of scholarship in urban studies that engages with postcolonial theory, post...
Poverty, Urban
Ana Belén Cano-Hila
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2020-10-15
Urban PovertyIntroductionEradicating poverty in all its forms remains one of the greatest challenges facing humanity. For this reason, it was the prim...
Religion, Urban
Petra Kuppinger
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2020-10-15
Urban ReligionIntroductionIn the early years of urban studies (urban sociology took shape in the 1920s and consolidated in the post–World War II era; ...
Retail Districts
Conrad Kickert
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2020-10-15
Retail DistrictsIntroductionRetail districts are key elements of the urban experience, reflecting and reinforcing the economic, social, political and ...
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