ABSTRACT

The Encyclopedia of the City focuses on the key topics encountered by undergraduates and scholars in urban studies and allied fields. Contributors include major theoreticians and practitioners, and on other individuals, groups, and organizations which study the city or practice in a field that directly or indirectly affects the city, the Encyclopedia necessarily adopts an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspective.

A solid but also provocative starting point for wider exploration of the city, this is a first-class work of reference that will be an essential resource for independent study as well as a useful aid in teaching.

letter |15 pages

A

entry |2 pages

Abercrombie, Leslie Patrick

entry |1 pages

Abu-Lughod, Janet

entry |2 pages

Accessible City

entry |1 pages

Acropolis

entry |1 pages

Adams, Thomas

entry |1 pages

Adaptive Reuse

entry |1 pages

Addams, Jane

entry |3 pages

Advocacy Planning

entry |1 pages

Agora

entry |2 pages

Air Rights

entry |1 pages

Alberti, Leon Battista

entry |2 pages

Alexander, Christopher

entry |2 pages

Alinsky, Saul D.

entry |1 pages

Alley

entry |2 pages

Alonso, William

entry |2 pages

Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)

entry |2 pages

Altshuler, Alan A.

entry |2 pages

A nnexation

entry |1 pages

Appleyard, Donald

entry |1 pages

Architectural Review Board

letter |23 pages

B

entry |1 pages

Back-To-The-City Movement

entry |2 pages

Bacon, Edmund N.

entry |2 pages

Balanced Community

entry |1 pages

Banfield, Edward C

entry |1 pages

Barnett, Jonathan

entry |2 pages

Baroque City

entry |2 pages

Barrio

entry |1 pages

Barthes Roland

entry |2 pages

Bartholomew, Harland

entry |1 pages

Bauer, Catherine

entry |2 pages

Bell, Daniel

entry |1 pages

Bell, Wendell

entry |3 pages

Benchmarking

entry |1 pages

Benevolo, Leonardo

entry |2 pages

Benjamin, Walter

entry |1 pages

Berry, Brian J.L

entry |3 pages

Blight

entry |1 pages

Blumenfeld, Hans

entry |1 pages

Bonus Zoning

entry |1 pages

Boosterism

entry |2 pages

Booth, Charles

entry |2 pages

Borderless Society

entry |2 pages

Boss

entry |1 pages

Boulevard

entry |2 pages

Bourgeois

entry |1 pages

Bourne, Larry S.

entry |2 pages

Boyer, M. Christine

entry |1 pages

Braudel, Fernand

entry |2 pages

Briggs, Asa

entry |2 pages

Brownfields

entry |2 pages

Burnham, Daniel Hudson

entry |2 pages

Bustee

letter |69 pages

C

entry |2 pages

Calthorpe, Peter A.

entry |1 pages

Calvino, Italo

entry |2 pages

Capacity-Building

entry |2 pages

Capital Accumulation

entry |2 pages

Capital Facility Planning

entry |1 pages

Capitalist City

entry |2 pages

Cartesian City

entry |2 pages

Castells, Manuel

entry |2 pages

Categorical Grant Programme

entry |1 pages

Central City

entry |3 pages

Central Place Theory

entry |2 pages

Centralization

entry |2 pages

Cerdà, Ildefons

entry |2 pages

Charter Of Athens

entry |2 pages

Chicago School of Sociology

entry |1 pages

Choay, Françoise

entry |2 pages

Christaller, Walter

entry |2 pages

Citadel

entry |3 pages

Cities and Film

entry |3 pages

Cities and The Arts

entry |4 pages

Cities in Literature

entry |2 pages

Cities of Difference

entry |2 pages

Citistate

entry |2 pages

Citizenship

entry |4 pages

City

entry |2 pages

City Beautiful Movement

entry |2 pages

City of Ur

entry |3 pages

City Typologies

entry |2 pages

Civil Rights Movement

entry |2 pages

Civil Society

entry |3 pages

Classicism

entry |2 pages

Closed Circuit Television (CCTV)

entry |2 pages

Coastal Management

entry |2 pages

Cognitive Maps

entry |2 pages

Cohousing

entry |1 pages

Colonial City

entry |1 pages

Communitas

entry |4 pages

Community

entry |2 pages

Community Conflict Resolution

entry |2 pages

Community Development Block Grant

entry |2 pages

Community Development Corporation

entry |2 pages

Community Goal-Setting

entry |2 pages

Community Policing

entry |2 pages

Community Power Structure

entry |2 pages

Community Visioning

entry |2 pages

Community-Based Financing

entry |2 pages

Commuters

entry |1 pages

Compact Development

entry |2 pages

Condominium

entry |2 pages

Congestion

entry |2 pages

Conurbation

entry |2 pages

Convention Centres

entry |2 pages

Cooperative Housing

entry |2 pages

Costa, Lucio

entry |2 pages

Council Housing

entry |1 pages

Courtyards

entry |3 pages

Crime

entry |2 pages

Critical Coalition

entry |2 pages

Cross-Border Region

entry |1 pages

Cullen, Gordon

entry |1 pages

Cultural Heritage

entry |2 pages

Cultural Identity

entry |2 pages

Culture

entry |2 pages

Cybercity

letter |25 pages

D

entry |1 pages

Dahl, robert

entry |1 pages

Davidoff, paul

entry |2 pages

De certeau, michel

entry |1 pages

Decentralization

entry |1 pages

Defensible space

entry |2 pages

Demography

entry |2 pages

Density

entry |2 pages

Density bonus

entry |2 pages

Dependency theory

entry |2 pages

Desegregation

entry |1 pages

Development agreements

entry |1 pages

Digital divide

entry |2 pages

Digital government

entry |3 pages

Direct democracy

entry |2 pages

Discrimination

entry |2 pages

Disinvestment

entry |2 pages

Disney environments

entry |2 pages

Dispersion

entry |2 pages

Divided cities

entry |2 pages

Docklands

entry |1 pages

Dot density map

entry |3 pages

Downtown

entry |1 pages

Doxiades, constantinos

entry |3 pages

Drugs

entry |1 pages

Duany, andrés m.

entry |2 pages

Dubois, william edward burghardt (w.e.b.)

letter |37 pages

E

entry |1 pages

École des Beaux-Arts

entry |2 pages

Economic Clusters

entry |2 pages

Economic Polarization

entry |2 pages

Economic Restructuring

entry |2 pages

Economies of Scale

entry |2 pages

Ecovillage

entry |1 pages

Ecumenopolis

entry |4 pages

Education and the City

entry |2 pages

Ekistics

entry |1 pages

Eminent Domain

entry |3 pages

Empowerment Zone

entry |2 pages

Engels, Friedrich

entry |3 pages

Environment and the City

entry |2 pages

Environmental Behaviour

entry |3 pages

Environmental Design

entry |2 pages

Environmental Impact Assessment

entry |3 pages

Environmental Justice

entry |2 pages

Environmental Perception

entry |2 pages

Environmental Sociology

entry |3 pages

Envisionment and Discovery Collaboratory

entry |2 pages

Equity Planning

entry |2 pages

Ethnic Conflict

entry |2 pages

Ethnic Enclaves

entry |2 pages

Ethno-Class Relations

entry |3 pages

European Square

entry |2 pages

Exactions

entry |2 pages

Exclusionary Zoning

entry |1 pages

Exopolis

entry |2 pages

Export Base Theory

entry |2 pages

Expropriation

entry |2 pages

Externalities

entry |1 pages

Exurbia

letter |14 pages

F

entry |1 pages

Façade Preservation

entry |2 pages

Fair Share Housing Allocation

entry |3 pages

Favela

entry |2 pages

Feminist Theory

entry |2 pages

Festival Marketplaces

entry |1 pages

Festivals

entry |2 pages

Filtering Process

entry |2 pages

Fiscal Impact Analysis

entry |2 pages

Fiscal Zoning

entry |1 pages

Floor Area Ratio

entry |2 pages

Ford, George B.

entry |1 pages

Foreign Investment

entry |1 pages

Foreign Trade Zones

entry |2 pages

Forester, John

entry |1 pages

Fortified Cities

entry |2 pages

Foucault, Michel

entry |2 pages

Friedmann, John

entry |1 pages

Frostbelt

letter |32 pages

G

entry |2 pages

Gangs

entry |1 pages

Gans, Herbert J.

entry |2 pages

Garden City

entry |2 pages

Garnier, Tony

entry |1 pages

Garreau, Joel

entry |2 pages

Gated Communities

entry |1 pages

Gecekondu

entry |1 pages

Geddes, Patrick

entry |2 pages

Gemeinschaft

entry |2 pages

Gender Discrimination

entry |2 pages

Gender Equity Planning

entry |2 pages

Gendered Spaces

entry |2 pages

General Plan

entry |2 pages

Gentrification

entry |3 pages

Geographic Information Systems

entry |2 pages

George, Henry

entry |1 pages

Gesellschaft

entry |2 pages

Ghetto

entry |2 pages

Giddens, Anthony

entry |2 pages

Global Cities

entry |1 pages

Glocalization

entry |2 pages

Good Government Movement

entry |1 pages

Goodman, Robert

entry |2 pages

Gōtō, Shinpei

entry |2 pages

Gottmann, Jean

entry |2 pages

Governance

entry |2 pages

Graffiti

entry |2 pages

Great Society

entry |3 pages

Green Belt

entry |1 pages

Gropius, Walter

entry |1 pages

Group Home

entry |2 pages

Growth Machine

entry |2 pages

Growth Management

entry |2 pages

Growth Poles

entry |2 pages

Gruen, Victor

letter |28 pages

H

entry |2 pages

Habitat 96

entry |1 pages

Hall Edward T.

entry |2 pages

Hall, Sir Peter Geoffrey

entry |1 pages

Harris, Britton

entry |2 pages

Harris, Chauncy

entry |2 pages

Harvey, David

entry |2 pages

Haussmann, Baron Georges-Eugene

entry |1 pages

Hayden, Dolores

entry |2 pages

Healthy City

entry |2 pages

Heterotopia

entry |1 pages

High-Occupancy Vehicle Lanes

entry |2 pages

high-rise Housing Estates

entry |2 pages

Hinterland

entry |2 pages

Historic City

entry |3 pages

Historic District

entry |2 pages

Historic Preservation

entry |1 pages

Home Rule

entry |2 pages

Homelessness

entry |2 pages

Homeowners' Association

entry |1 pages

Homophobia

entry |4 pages

Housing Discrimination

entry |3 pages

Housing For Specific Needs

entry |1 pages

Housing Markets

entry |2 pages

Housing Societies

entry |2 pages

Housing Vouchers

entry |1 pages

Howard, Ebenezer

entry |3 pages

Human Capital

entry |1 pages

Human Ecology

entry |2 pages

Humane City

entry |1 pages

Huxtable, Ada Louise

entry |2 pages

Hygeia

letter |23 pages

I

entry |2 pages

Image of The City

entry |2 pages

Immigration

entry |2 pages

Imperial Cities

entry |3 pages

Inclusionary Housing

entry |2 pages

Incrementalism

entry |1 pages

Index of Dissimilarity

entry |2 pages

Industrial City

entry |2 pages

Industrial Revolution

entry |1 pages

Industrialization

entry |2 pages

Infill Development

entry |2 pages

Informal Sector

entry |2 pages

Informational City

entry |4 pages

Infrastructure

entry |1 pages

Input-Output Analysis

entry |2 pages

Insurance Redlining

entry |3 pages

Intelligent Transport Systems

entry |3 pages

Internal Structure of the City

entry |1 pages

International Expositions/World Fairs

entry |2 pages

Internet

entry |2 pages

Ishikawa, Eiyo (Hideaki)

letter |3 pages

J

entry |1 pages

Jackson, john brinckerhoff

entry |1 pages

Jacobs, allan b.

entry |2 pages

Jacobs (née butzner), jane

letter |5 pages

K

entry |1 pages

Kahn, Louis Isadore

entry |2 pages

Kelley, Florence

entry |1 pages

Kent, Thomas J. (Jack), Jr

entry |2 pages

Koolhaas, Rem

entry |2 pages

Krier, Léon

entry |1 pages

Krier, Rob

entry |2 pages

Kropotkin, Peter

entry |1 pages

Krumholz, Norman

letter |17 pages

L

entry |2 pages

Labour Markets

entry |1 pages

Land Banking

entry |2 pages

Land Speculation

entry |1 pages

Land Trusts

entry |3 pages

Land Value Capture

entry |1 pages

Latch-Key Kids

entry |2 pages

Laws of the Indies

entry |2 pages

Le Corbusier (Byname of Charles-Édouard Jeanneret)

entry |1 pages

Lefebvre, Henri

entry |1 pages

L'ernfant, Pierre Charles

entry |2 pages

Lewis, Oscar

entry |1 pages

Liebow, Elliot

entry |2 pages

Linear City

entry |2 pages

Linkage Fees

entry |3 pages

Livable City

entry |1 pages

Locally Unwanted Land Use

entry |3 pages

Los Angeles School of Urban Studies

entry |1 pages

Luna Parks

entry |2 pages

Lynch, Kevin

entry |2 pages

Lyotard, Jean-François

letter |23 pages

M

entry |2 pages

McHarg, Ian L.

entry |1 pages

Mackaye, Benton

entry |3 pages

Main Streets

entry |1 pages

Manufacturing City

entry |2 pages

Maquiladoras

entry |1 pages

Marsh, Benjamin Clark

entry |3 pages

Mass Transit

entry |2 pages

Medieval Cities

entry |1 pages

Megacity

entry |1 pages

Megalopolis

entry |1 pages

Melting Pot

entry |2 pages

Mercantile City

entry |2 pages

Meta-Urbanism

entry |1 pages

Metropolitan Statistical Area

entry |2 pages

Meyerson, Martin

entry |1 pages

Mies Van Der Rohe, Ludwig

entry |3 pages

Migration

entry |2 pages

Model Cities

entry |3 pages

Modernism

entry |1 pages

Mollenkopf, John

entry |2 pages

Mono-Centric City

entry |1 pages

Monuments

entry |2 pages

Morris, William

entry |2 pages

Moses, Robert

entry |1 pages

Moynihan, Daniel Patrick

entry |2 pages

Multi-Centric Cities

entry |2 pages

Multifunctional Urban Land Use

entry |1 pages

Mumford, Lewis

letter |13 pages

N

entry |1 pages

Nash, John

entry |2 pages

Necropolis

entry |1 pages

Negroponte, Nicholas

entry |2 pages

Neighbourhood

entry |1 pages

Neighbourhood Watch

entry |2 pages

New Charter of Athens

entry |2 pages

New Economy

entry |3 pages

New Federalism

entry |2 pages

New Urbanism

entry |2 pages

Noise

entry |1 pages

Nolen, John

entry |2 pages

Non-Profits and Urban Services

entry |2 pages

Non-Sexist City

entry |1 pages

Not in My Backyard (Nimby)

entry |2 pages

Nuclear Family

letter |3 pages

O

entry |2 pages

Olmsted, Frederick Law, Olmsted, Frederick Law, Jr and Olmsted, John C.

entry |2 pages

Open Space

letter |34 pages

P

entry |2 pages

Park, Robert E.

entry |2 pages

Parks

entry |2 pages

Pedestrian Mall

entry |1 pages

Pedestrian Pocket

entry |2 pages

Peirce, Neal R.

entry |3 pages

Performance Measurement

entry |1 pages

Perry, Clarence Arthur

entry |2 pages

Pirenne, Henri

entry |2 pages

Place

entry |2 pages

Planning Commission

entry |2 pages

Plater-Zyberk, Elizabeth

entry |1 pages

Police Power

entry |2 pages

Polis

entry |2 pages

Political Economy

entry |1 pages

Polycentric City

entry |4 pages

Popular Culture and Cities

entry |1 pages

Populism

entry |1 pages

Port City

entry |2 pages

Portes, Alejandro

entry |2 pages

Post-Fordist System of Production

entry |2 pages

Postmodernism

entry |2 pages

Post-Socialist City

entry |3 pages

Poverty

entry |2 pages

Principles of Intelligent Urbanism

entry |3 pages

Privatization

entry |2 pages

Progressive Planners

entry |3 pages

Property Rights

entry |1 pages

Pruitt-Igoe

entry |2 pages

Psychogeography

entry |2 pages

Public Art

entry |1 pages

Public Health Surveillance

entry |1 pages

Public Space

entry |3 pages

Public-Private Partnerships

letter |2 pages

Q

entry |2 pages

Quartered City

letter |16 pages

R

entry |2 pages

Radiant City

entry |1 pages

Rapoport, Amos

entry |2 pages

Redevelopment

entry |1 pages

Red-Light Districts

entry |2 pages

Redlining

entry |2 pages

Regional Planning

entry |2 pages

Renaissance City

entry |3 pages

Rent Control

entry |2 pages

Restorative Justice

entry |2 pages

Ribbon Development

entry |2 pages

Riis, Jacob

entry |2 pages

Riots

entry |2 pages

Robinson, Charles Mulford

entry |1 pages

Rossi, Aldo

entry |2 pages

Rouse, James

entry |2 pages

Rowe, Colin Fredrick

entry |1 pages

Rykwert Joseph

letter |51 pages

S

entry |1 pages

Safe City

entry |2 pages

Sandercock, Leonie

entry |2 pages

Sassen, Saskia

entry |2 pages

Satellite Towns

entry |2 pages

Science Parks

entry |1 pages

Scott Brown, Denise

entry |1 pages

Scully, Vincent J.

entry |2 pages

Segregation

entry |1 pages

Sense of Community

entry |2 pages

Sense of Place

entry |2 pages

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

entry |1 pages

Shevky, Eshref

entry |2 pages

Shopping Malls

entry |1 pages

Sidewalk

entry |1 pages

Simkhovitch, Mary Kingsbury

entry |2 pages

Simmel, Georg

entry |1 pages

Site Value Taxation

entry |1 pages

Sitte, Camillo

entry |2 pages

Skid Row

entry |3 pages

Slum

entry |2 pages

Smart Community

entry |3 pages

Smart Growth

entry |2 pages

Social Area Analysis

entry |1 pages

Social Capital

entry |2 pages

Social Ecology

entry |3 pages

Social Housing

entry |2 pages

Social Inequality

entry |2 pages

Social Justice

entry |3 pages

Social Polarization

entry |2 pages

Socialist City

entry |1 pages

Soleri, Paolo

entry |2 pages

Soria Y Mata, Arturo

entry |1 pages

Sorkin, Michael

entry |3 pages

Spatial Mismatch

entry |1 pages

Spatial Planning

entry |2 pages

Sprawl

entry |4 pages

Squatter Settlements

entry |1 pages

Stadia

entry |2 pages

Stein, Clarence S.

entry |2 pages

Strategic Planning

entry |1 pages

Street People

entry |1 pages

Streetcar Suburbs

entry |1 pages

Streets

entry |2 pages

Streetscapes

entry |3 pages

Subdivision

entry |2 pages

Suburb

entry |3 pages

Suburbanization

entry |2 pages

Sunbelt

entry |1 pages

Surveillance

entry |3 pages

Susceptibility-To-Change Analysis

entry |2 pages

Sustainable Urban Development

entry |2 pages

Sutcliffef Anthony

entry |2 pages

Swot Analysis

letter |18 pages

T

entry |1 pages

Takayama, Eika

entry |2 pages

Tange, Kenzo

entry |2 pages

Tax Abatements

entry |2 pages

Tax Increment Financing

entry |1 pages

Technoburbs

entry |2 pages

Techno-City

entry |2 pages

Technopoles

entry |1 pages

Telecommuting

entry |3 pages

Tenements

entry |2 pages

Theme Places

entry |1 pages

Theory of demographic transition

entry |2 pages

Third World Cities

entry |2 pages

Tiebout, Charles Mills

entry |1 pages

Tiebout Hypothesis

entry |2 pages

Toffler, Alvin

entry |1 pages

Tourism

entry |2 pages

Traffic Calming

entry |2 pages

Transfer of development rights

entry |2 pages

Transit-Oriented Development

entry |3 pages

Transport and the environment

entry |1 pages

Tugwell, Rexford G.

entry |1 pages

Tyrwhitt, Mary Jaqueline

letter |43 pages

U

entry |1 pages

Ullman, Edward

entry |1 pages

Uneven Economic Development

entry |3 pages

Urban

entry |1 pages

Urban Agriculture

entry |3 pages

Urban Crisis

entry |2 pages

Urban Decline

entry |3 pages

Urban Design

entry |1 pages

Urban Ecology

entry |2 pages

Urban Forestry

entry |2 pages

Urban Form

entry |2 pages

Urban Growth Boundary

entry |2 pages

Urban Homesteading

entry |2 pages

Urban Identity

entry |2 pages

Urban Indices

entry |4 pages

Urban Planning

entry |2 pages

Urban Primacy

entry |4 pages

Urban Regeneration

entry |3 pages

Urban Regime Theory

entry |2 pages

Urban Renaissance

entry |3 pages

Urban Restructuring

entry |3 pages

Urban Revitalization

entry |2 pages

Urban Sociology

entry |2 pages

Urban Squalor

entry |2 pages

Urban Stress

entry |3 pages

Urban Studies

entry |3 pages

Urban Underclass

entry |2 pages

Urban Village

entry |2 pages

Urbanism

entry |2 pages

Urbanity

entry |3 pages

Urbanization

entry |2 pages

Urban-Rural Tension

entry |2 pages

Utopia

letter |6 pages

V

entry |2 pages

Van Eesteren, Cornelis

entry |1 pages

Vandalism

entry |2 pages

Veiller, Lawrence

entry |2 pages

Venturi, Robert

entry |1 pages

Vernacular Architecture

entry |1 pages

Victory Garden

entry |2 pages

View Corridors

entry |2 pages

Visual Preferences

letter |17 pages

W

entry |1 pages

Wade, Richard C

entry |2 pages

Walking City

entry |2 pages

Walled Cities

entry |2 pages

War

entry |3 pages

War on Poverty

entry |1 pages

Warner, Sam Bass, Jr

entry |1 pages

Waterfront Development

entry |2 pages

Webber, Melvin M.

entry |2 pages

Weber, Max

entry |1 pages

Welfare to Work

entry |2 pages

White Flight

entry |1 pages

Whyte, William H.

entry |1 pages

Willmott, Peter

entry |2 pages

Wilson, William Julius

entry |2 pages

Wirth, Louis

entry |2 pages

Woods, Robert Archey

entry |2 pages

World Bank

entry |1 pages

World City Hypothesis

entry |2 pages

Wren, Sir Christopher

entry |2 pages

Wright, Frank Lloyd

letter |1 pages

Y

entry |1 pages

Young, Michael Dunlop

letter |3 pages

Z

entry |1 pages

Zero Tolerance

entry |3 pages

Zoning