urbanism
Sign in to saveUrbanism is the scientific study of how inhabitants of urban areas, such as towns and cities, interact with the built environment. It is a direct component of disciplines such as urban planning, a profession focusing on the design and management of urban areas, and urban sociology, an academic field which studies urban life.
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- Instance of
- branch of science
- Subclass of
- interaction
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- partially coincident with
- urban geography
- Commons category
- Urbanism
- topic's main category
- Category:Urbanism
- Mastodon instance URL
- urbanists.social
- studied by
- urban studies
- used by
- urban planning
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Urbanism is the scientific study of how inhabitants of urban areas, such as towns and cities, interact with the built environment. It is a direct component of disciplines such as urban planning, a profession focusing on the design and management of urban areas, and urban sociology, an academic field which studies urban life.
Many architects, planners, geographers, and sociologists investigate the way people live in densely populated urban areas. There is a wide variety of different theories and approaches to the study of urbanism. However, in some contexts internationally, urbanism is synonymous with urban planning, and urbanist refers to an urban planner.
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