r/UrbanStudies

600 archived posts · Dec 2012 – Mar 2026

Urban Studies

r/UrbanStudies

**Urban studies** is the term for a diverse range of disciplines and approaches to the study of 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.

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Welcome to r/UrbanStudies!

Urban studies is the term for a diverse range of disciplines and approaches to the study of 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.

(Index of urban studies articles)

Key Urban Studies Concepts:

Actor-network theory, Critical geography, Critical geopolitics, Ethnomethodology, Field, Habitus, Heterotopia, Rhythmanalysis, Right to the city, Social space, Space of flows, Spatialization, Spatial justice, Thirdspace

Key Urban Studies Thinkers:

Key Urban Studies Texts:

Bachelard, Gaston - The Poetics of Space (1958)
Castells, Manuel - The Urban Question (1972)
Foucault, Michel - Of Other Spaces (1967) [.pdf]
Harvey, David - Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution (2012)
Lefebvre, Henri - The Production of Space (1974)
Virilio, Paul - Speed and Politics (1977)

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