Urban sociology 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.
abandonment â accessibility â Active Living â activity centre â adaptive reuse â Administration for Children and Families â Acid Rain Program(EPA) â achievement gap in the United States â affirmative action â African American â Aid to Families with Dependent Children(AFDC) â air quality(indoor) â Air Pollution Index â air quality index â alienation â amalgamation â annexation â anomie â arcology â arson â asset-based community development â Asian American â Athens Charter â automobile â automobile dependency â autonomy
bureaucracy â birth rate â block grant â budget â bus â business cycle â business park
capitalism â capital improvement plan â carpool â carsharing â central business district â central place theory â charter school â City Beautiful movement â City of Light Development â city rhythm â civil rights â class stratification â clean air act â communal garden â Communities Directory â community development â community land trust â community of place â Community Reinvestment Act â commuting â complete streets â concentric zone model â conservation easement â Context Sensitive Solutions â context theory â Copenhagenization (bicycling) â core frame model â corporation â cost of living(U.S.) â counter urbanization â crime â criminal justice â cultural bias â culture of poverty -The Coons Effect
de facto segregation â de jure segregation â death rate â decentralization â devolution â disability â disinvestment â division of labour
economic development â economic growth â elitism â emission standard â employment â empowerment zone â enterprise zone â entertainment center â entrepôt â ethnic enclave
Federal Housing Administration â FHA loan â fragmentation
gang â gentrification â globalization â government â Great Depression â gridlock â growth management
habitability â highway â Hispanic Americans â historic preservation â Home Mortgage Disclosure Act â homelessness â homeowners' association â Housing Act of 1937 â Housing Act of 1949 â Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 â HOPE VI â human ecology â Department of Housing and Urban Development(H.U.D.) â hyperghettoization
immigration â inclusionary zoning â income â indoor air pollution in developing nations â industrial ecology â industrialization â inequality â infrastructure â interest group
land use â landfill â leapfrogging
magnet school â methanol â middle class â migration â modernization â Moving to Opportunity â multiple nuclei model
National Ambient Air Quality Standards â neighborhood â Neo-Marxism â nuclear family
organized crime â overcrowding
parochialism â Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act â Phase I Environmental Site Assessment â polarization â police brutality â pollution â poverty â poverty line â privatization â public transport â psychological stress â public housing â public school â public transport
racial discrimination â racial integration â racism â rail system â recycling â regime theory â revenue sharing â rural
savings and loan crisis â scholarship â segregation â single parent â smart growth â social complexity â social disorganization theory â social housing â social solidarity â social work â social welfare provision â Socialism â solidarity â Soviet Union â steam engine â streetcar â street children â suburbanization â suburb â Sun Belt
taxes â technology â Times Square Red, Times Square Blue âÂÂTANF â third world
underemployment â underground economy â unemployment â Uniform Crime Report â unionization â urban decay â Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 â urban renewal â urban sprawl â urbanization
Vice Lords â violence â volunteer â voting bloc
Wage â War on Poverty â waste disposal â water supply â welfare â welfare reform â white flight â white collar crime â workfare
List of United States cities by population
List of U.S. metropolitan areas with large African-American populations
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