urban studies
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- The study of the urban development of cities.
- Synonym: urbanistics
- Coordinate term: urbanism
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urban studies pl (plural only)
- Individual studies carried out on this topic.
- 2013, Masashi Haneda, Islamic Urban Studies, Routledge, →ISBN, page 185:
- Urban studies of cities other than Istanbul hardly existed until two decades ago. Though cities were frequently mentioned in historical studies about the socio-economic formation of the Ottoman Empire, the city itself was seldom the primary target of concern.
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- urban studies on Wikipedia.Wikipedia