Index of urban sociology articles


is the sociological study of social life and human interaction in metropolitan areas. It is a normative discipline of sociology seeking to study the structures, processes, changes and problems of an urban area and by doing so providing inputs for planning and policy making.

A

— accessibility — Active Living — activity centre — adaptive reuse — Administration for Children and Families — Acid Rain Program — achievement gap in the United States — affirmative action — African American — Aid to Families with Dependent Children — air quality — Air Pollution Index — air quality index — alienation — amalgamation — annexation — anomie — arcology — arson — asset-based community development — Asian American — Athens Charter — automobile — automobile dependency — autonomy

B

— birth rate — block grant — budget — bus — business cycle — business park

C

— capital improvement plan — carpool — carsharing — central business district — central place theory — charter school — City Beautiful movement — City of Light Development — city rhythm — civil rights — class stratification — clean air act — communal garden — Communities Directory — community development — community land trust — community of place — Community Reinvestment Act — commuting — complete streets — concentric zone model — conservation easement — Context Sensitive Solutions — context theory — Copenhagenization — core frame model — corporation — cost of living — counter urbanization — crime — criminal justice — cultural bias — culture of poverty
-The Coons Effect

D

— de jure segregation — death rate — decentralization — devolution — disability — disinvestment — division of labour

E

— economic growth — elitism — emission standard — employment — empowerment zone — enterprise zone — entertainment center — entrepôt — ethnic enclave

F

— FHA loan — fragmentation

G

— gentrification — globalization — government — great depression — gridlock — growth management

H

— highway — Hispanic Americans — historic preservation — Home Mortgage Disclosure Act — homelessness — homeowners' association — Housing Act of 1937 — Housing Act of 1949 — Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 — HOPE VI — human ecology — Department of Housing and Urban Development — hyperghettoization

I

— inclusionary zoning — income — indoor air pollution in developing nations — industrial ecology — industrialization — inequality — infrastructure — interest group

J

K

L

— landfill — leapfrogging

M

— methanol — middle class — migration — modernization — Moving to Opportunity — multiple nuclei model

N

— neighborhood — Neo-Marxism — nuclear family

O

— overcrowding

P

— Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act — Phase I Environmental Site Assessment — polarization — police brutality — pollution — poverty — poverty line — privatization — public transport — psychological stress — public housing — public school — public transport

Q

R

— racial integration — racism — rail system — recycling — regime theory — revenue sharing — rural

S

— scholarship — segregation — single parent — smart growth — social complexity — social disorganization theory — social housing — social solidarity — social work — social welfare provision — Socialism — solidarity — Soviet Union — steam engine — streetcar — street children — suburbanization — suburb — sun belt

T

— technology — Times Square Red, Times Square Blue —TANF — third world

U

— underground economy — unemployment — Uniform Crime Report — unionization — urban decay — Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 — urban renewal — urban sprawl — urbanization

V

— violence — volunteer — voting bloc

W

— war on poverty — waste disposal — water supply — welfare — welfare reform — white flight — white collar crime — workfare

X

Y

Z

Urban-Related Lists