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Reader’s Guide<br />

The Encyclopedia of Urban Studies is intended for a number of different audiences, ranging from high<br />

school students and teachers who require general information about topics that we have included here<br />

to advanced scholars who require an overview of topics not directly accessible in their area of study.<br />

This suggests that there are a number of ways to approach the encyclopedia—in other words, there are<br />

a number of ways to read the entries. In the following Reader’s Guide, we suggest several ways to use<br />

this encyclopedia, whether you have picked up this volume to find information about a specific subject,<br />

or you are interested in a general overview of the field of urban studies.<br />

At the beginning level, urban studies comprises a number of subfields within the more traditional<br />

disciplines that focus some part of their study of <strong>cities</strong> and urban life, as well as professional fields that<br />

deal with these topics. In addition to the entry on Urban Studies, there are entries on the following disciplines<br />

that contribute to urban studies:<br />

Urban Anthropology<br />

Urban Economics<br />

Urban Geography<br />

Urban History<br />

Urban Planning<br />

Urban Politics<br />

Urban Psychology<br />

Urban Sociology<br />

Disciplinary Approaches in Urban Studies<br />

The many urban disciplines have developed important<br />

concepts to explain both urban growth<br />

(urbanization) as well as characteristic features of<br />

urban life (urbanism). The encyclopedia includes<br />

entries on concepts in several of the disciplines:<br />

Urban Economics<br />

Affordable Housing<br />

Deindustrialization<br />

Developer<br />

Downtown Revitalization<br />

Ethnic Entrepreneur<br />

Gentrification<br />

Globalization<br />

Growth Poles<br />

xi<br />

Housing<br />

Land Developer<br />

Land Trust<br />

Marxism and the City<br />

Rent Control<br />

Rent Theory<br />

Tiebout Hypothesis<br />

Uneven Development<br />

Urban Agglomeration<br />

Urban Planning<br />

Urban Geography<br />

City Map<br />

Edge City<br />

Exopolis<br />

Fourth World

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