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urban studies  

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  • Within the social sciences, the city is imagined as an object of society rather than a fact of nature (though scholars are increasingly blurring this distinction) and, in that vein, is conceived as a material space of functional and social relationships involving such physical objects as office towers, neighborhoods, and plazas. As a subfield of the social sciences, though, urban studies is awkwardly positioned in relationship to economics, sociology, political science, history, geography, and anthropology. [Source: Encyclopedia of Urban Studies; Urban Studies]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-P9CJGV5W-F

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