What Is “Urban Studies”? Context, Internal Structure, and Content
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12065635 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William M Bowen (0000-0003-2848-6519, Cleveland State University, corresponding author), Ronnie A Dunn (Cleveland State University), David Oliver Kasdan (0000-0002-6709-1424, Cleveland State University) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 199-227 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Urban Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0735-2166 • E-ISSN: 1467-9906 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9906.2009.00474.x |
| OpenAlex | W1985977099 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 26 |
The record of learned concern with cities is nearly as old as the city itself. In the past several decades, however, a distinct academic field of “Urban Studies” has emerged. This article characterizes the context, internal structure, and content of the field through interviews with leading scholars, probabilistic multidimensional scaling analyses of survey data, and a content analysis of a leading journal. The article concludes that although Urban Studies is in some respects not a bounded “academic discipline,” it is an intellectually coherent, distinctively structured, and promising field of inquiry steered by complex, ever-changing, and often-large-scale realities and real-world problems of evolving human settlements
Content (measure theory · Context (archaeology · Geography · Mathematics · Urbanization and City Planning
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Studying the institutionalisation of urban studies
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La revue Environnement Urbain/Urban Environment vue de l’intérieur
The Emergence of Urban Studies as an Academic Field
From Disciplinary Depth to Interdisciplinary Breadth
Comprehensive and multifaceted perspectives on sustainability, urban studies, and entrepreneurship
Advancements in the application of large language models in urban studies
The ivorine tower in the city
Race and the Relevance of Citizen Complaints Against the Police
Urbanization before Cities
Key thinkers on cities
Community psychology and urban studies
The state of urban research? The state of urban research
The importance of community in public school success
The History in Urban Studies
The Present and Future of Urban Affairs Research
Sustainable agrarian urbanism
Much Ado About “Great Books” of Public Administration
Everyday practices of administrative ambiguation and the labour of de-ambiguation
Reassessing “City Limits” in Urban Public Policy
The city in history
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The study of urbanization
The Content Analysis Guidebook
A law of comparative judgment.
Model Selection and Akaike's Information Criterion (AIC)
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Estimating the Dimension of a Model
The Future Metropolis
Computers can read as well as count
"Mainstream" Public Administration over Time
The Metropolitan Problem and American Ideas
Redirecting our Voyage through History
Civil Defense, Democracy, and The Self-Destroying Prophecy
The Study of Urbanization
| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,38 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2025 (16) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |