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Nairobi
Constance Smith
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2022-05-26
NairobiIntroductionSince its late-19th-century origins in the British East African Protectorate, when Nairobi began as a depot on the colonial railway...
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 ...
Riots
Matthew Moran
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2020-10-15
RiotsIntroductionRiots have long been an area of interest for researchers but the study of this form of collective disorder has always proved challeng...
Rural-Urban Migration
Cindy Fan
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2022-06-27
Rural-Urban MigrationIntroductionRural-urban migration refers to the movement of people from rural to urban areas. Defining migration is not easy; the...
San Francisco
John Elrick
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2022-05-26
San FranciscoIntroductionSan Francisco holds a special place in the pantheon of American towns and cities. Its pastel hilltops, Victorian facades, see...
São Paulo
Raquel Rolnik, Adriana Marín-Toro, Fernanda Accioly Moreira, Marina Kohler Harkot
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2020-10-15
São PauloIntroductionWith over twenty million inhabitants, the São Paulo metropolitan region covers 900 square kilometers of urbanized area through th...
Sexualities, Urban
Phil Hubbard
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2020-10-15
Urban SexualitiesIntroductionSex and related questions of sexual reproduction and coupling have been an important focus for the social sciences since ...
Shanghai
Mi Shih
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2020-10-15
ShanghaiIntroductionThis article primarily focuses on Shanghai since the late 1980s, a period in which the city began to undergo rapid urbanization, a...
Smart Growth
Gerrit-Jan Knaap, Rebecca Lewis, Arnab Chakraborty, Katy June-Friesen
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2020-10-15
Smart GrowthIntroductionIn market economies such as the United States and most western nations, land-use and development patterns are influenced by go...
Sociology, Urban
Daniel J. Monti
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2020-10-15
Urban SociologyIntroductionUrban sociology is among the earliest and richest areas of sociological inquiry. It touches on topics and problems related ...
Soundscapes, Urban
James Mansell
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2020-10-15
Urban SoundscapesIntroductionThe word “soundscape” is associated with composer and music scholar R. Murray Schafer and his World Soundscape Project at...
Squatter Settlements
Shahana Chattaraj
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2020-10-15
Squatter SettlementsIntroductionSquatter settlements, widespread in urban Africa, Latin America, and South and Southeast Asia, are a characteristic fe...
Suburbs in the United States, Asian and Asian American
James Zarsadiaz
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2020-10-15
Asian and Asian American Suburbs in the United StatesIntroductionAsians and Asian Americans are the most suburbanized people of color in the United St...
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