Subject(s): Cities and towns in Study and teaching. -- Cities and towns. -- Sociology, Urban. -- Urban sociology and urban studies -- Urban planning -- Urban geography -- Community -- MSAs and other census -- De-territorialization and Re-territorialization -- Education and reproduction of labor -- Environment concerns -- feminism -- Fiscal crisis -- Ghetto and racial segregation -- Global cities -- Globalization -- Housing and homelessness -- Immigration and migration -- Inequality and Poverty -- Informal economy -- Masculine space -- Models of urban growth -- Multi-centred metropolitan regions -- New urbanism -- Overurbanization -- Pedestrian and automobile -- Planning: cities, suburbs, metropolitan regions -- post-modern and modern urbanism -- Slums and shanty towns -- Real estate -- Socio-spatial approach -- Sustainable urbanization -- Uneven development/ Boom and bust cycles -- Urban social movements -- Urban and suburb politics -- Urban violence and crime -- Urbanization and urbanism