urban studies
Noun
Meaning
urban studies (uncountable)
The study of the urban development of cities.
Synonym: urbanistics
Coordinate term: urbanism
urban studies pl (plural only)
Individual studies carried out on this topic.
Examples
I teach in MIT’s Department of Urban Studies & Planning and the Sloan School’s Advanced Management Program.
“These workers have been exploited so shamelessly for so long by these companies while performing incredibly important but largely invisible labor,” said Stephen Brier, a labor historian and professor at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies.