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Acropolis
The term acropolis (Greek for “high city”) denotes the hilltop the hilltop citadel that dominated the topography of many ancient Greek cities. Thanks to the frequency of ...
- Cities: Historical Overviews
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- Savannah, Georgia
- Shanghai, China
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- Venice, Italy
- Persons
- Alinsky, Saul
- Alonso, William
- Benjamin, Walter
- Berry, Brian J. L.
- Castells, Manuel
- Childe, V. Gordon
- Davis, Mike
- De Certeau, Michel
- Dickens, Charles
- Downs, Anthony
- Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Fujita, Masahisa
- Geddes, Patrick
- Gottdiener, Mark
- Hall, Peter
- Harvey, David
- Haussmann, Baron Georges-Eugène
- Hawley, Amos
- Isard, Walter
- Jackson, Kenneth T.
- Jacobs, Jane
- Kracauer, Siegfried
- Le Corbusier
- Lefebvre, Henri
- LLöschsch, August
- Lynch, Kevin
- Moses, Robert
- Mumford, Lewis
- Riis, Jacob
- Sassen, Saskia
- Sert, Josep Lluís
- Simmel, Goerg
- Soja, Edward W.
- Wren, Sir Christopher
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- Fourth World
- Gated Community
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- Metropolitan
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- Night Spaces
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- Placemaking
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- Sports Stadiums
- Suburbanization
- Technoburbs
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- Utopia
- World Trade Center (9/11)
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- Urban Studies—Topical Areas: Architecture
- Urban Studies—Topical Areas: Gender and Sex – Béguinage
- Urban Studies—Topical Areas: Gender and Sex – Social Space
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