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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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