Urban Studies is the scientific discipline that studies all aspects of cities, their suburbs, and other urban areas. This includes urban economics, urban planning, urban architecture, urban ecology, urban transportation systems, urban politics, and urban social relations. This can be contrasted with rural areas and rural lifestyles.

List of terms in urban studies

• autonomous village
• arcology
• architecture
• allotment (gardening)
• autonomous building
• bicycle-friendly
• biohazard response
• bioterrorism
• built environment
• car-free zone
• car-pool lane
• city
• consumerism
• commuting
• community currency
• community emergency response team
• co-housing
• congestion charge
• ecological health
• environmental health
• environmental studies
• economies of agglomeration
• ecological footprint
• Eco-industrial park
• eco-village
• energy
• electricity generation
• externality
• farmers market
• flash mob
• gentrification
• haram
• human development theory
• hard energy
• infrastructural capital
• industrial ecology
• land ethic
• landscape architecture
• mass transit
• pedestrian-friendly
• pedestrian overpass
• pedestrian underpass
• personal rapid transit
• planned cities
• political economy
• productivism
• public transport
• quantitative development
• respiratory health
• rural
• recycling
• regenerative development
• regenerative finance
• service economy
• seven-generation sustainability
• sewage system
• shared space
• shift-share
• smog
• soft energy
• street reclaiming
• suburban
• suburban colonization
• traffic calming
• toll bridge
• toll road
• terrorism
• transit-oriented development
• urban
• urban debt
• urban secession
• urban sprawl
• urbanization
• urban car
• urban design
• urban ecology
• urban exploration
• urban planning
• urban planner
• urban outdoorsman
• urban wilderness
• unemployment
• waste economy
• zoning

Noted urbanists

• Christopher Alexander, author of The Nature of Order
• Stewart Brand, author of How Buildings Learn
• Jane Jacobs, author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities
• Lewis Mumford, author of Technics and Civilization and The Culture of Cities
• William H. Whyte, author of City: Rediscovering the Center

Related lists

• list of planned cities
• list of urban planners
• list of ecology topics
• list of environment topics
• list of ethics topics
• list of economics topics
• list of architecture topics
• list of political science topics

Society-related lists | Urban studies and planning | Interdisciplinary fields