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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...
Suburbs, Black
Kimberley Johnson
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2020-10-15
Black SuburbsIntroductionBlack suburbanization and black suburbs were not the focus of social science research until the 1960s. The rise of the civil ...
Toronto
Zack Taylor
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2020-10-15
TorontoIntroductionWith a greater regional population of eight million residents, Toronto is one of the largest and fastest growing metropolitan areas...
Underclass, Urban
John Welshman
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2020-10-15
Urban UnderclassIntroductionThe term urban underclass is often invoked to describe the urban poor, and particularly those who have allegedly become de...
Urban History, American
Lisa Krissoff Boehm, Steven H. Corey
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2021-07-28
American Urban HistoryIntroductionAmerican urban history embraces all historiography related to towns, cities, and metropolitan regions in the United ...
Urbanisms, Precolonial
Monika Baumanová
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2020-10-15
Precolonial UrbanismsIntroductionUrbanism as a phenomenon of human culture has been a popular theme for research in many academic disciplines, includi...
Urbanization, African
Garth Myers
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2020-10-15
African UrbanizationIntroductionAfrica is typically seen in urban studies as both the least urbanized continent and the most rapidly urbanizing one. T...
Urbanization, Arab Middle Eastern
Luna Khirfan
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2021-09-22
Arab Middle Eastern UrbanizationIntroductionThis article explores urbanization in the Arab countries of the Middle East and covers contributions publi...
Urbanization, Indian
Ashima Sood
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2020-10-15
Indian UrbanizationIntroductionEven as late as 2008, over sixty years after Indian independence from British colonial rule, only 30 percent of India’s...
Warfare, Urban
David Betz
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2021-07-28
Urban WarfareIntroductionUrban warfare refers to combat occurring in a built environment of some significant size. It is sometimes referred to as Mili...
Washington, DC
Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove
Subject: Urban Studies »
Date Added: 2022-05-26
Washington, DCIntroductionWashington, DC, is the capital of the United States. Limited to ten miles square in the US Constitution, DC sits at the conf...
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