Urban Ecology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7079119 |
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| Authors | Michael J White (0000-0002-0735-8668), Ann H Kim (0000-0002-4352-116X) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 1-4 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-14 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosu009 |
| OpenAlex | W4232460883 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
Urban ecology is the study of community structure and organization as manifest in cities and other relatively dense human settlements. Among its major topics, urban ecology is concerned with the patterns of urban community sorting and change according to socioeconomic status, life cycle, and ethnicity, and with patterns of relations across systems of cities. Of particular concern is the dynamic evolution of cities and contrast in urban structure across time periods, societies, and urban scale. The notion of community is central to urban ecology; a premise of the ecological approach is that the aggregation of persons into communities has important implications for their life chances, for the behavior of groups, and for aggregate outcomes. A further aspect of community organization lies in its geographic manifestation, although a mere geographic reductionism would not accurately capture the theoretical or empirical approach of the ecological perspective
Biology · Geography · Urban ecology · Urbanization · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Homelessness and Social Issues · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies · Ecology
| Highly cited | No |
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