Urban Studies: Encyclopedias

This encyclopedia covers the various academic disciplines that contribute to urban studies, including urban anthropology, urban economics, urban geography, urban history, urban politics, urban sociology, academic programmes that build upon these disciplines and professional fields that comprise urban studies.

Online version of this comprehensive and authoritative overview of the discipline of Geography. It define the concepts, research, and techniques in geography and interrelated fields.

This encyclopedia contains over 600 entries on the essential topics of Globalization, including agency-structure, Americanization, anti-globalization, Bretton Woods, coca-colonization, empire, Euro crisis, ethnic cleansing, exploitation, feminization of poverty, genocide, global warming, nation-state, neo-liberalism, oil, post-globalization, Qaedaism, rape, sex work, sport, terror, transnational corporations, Twitter Revolution, water crisis, Web 2.0, Wikileaks, World Social Forum, Zapatista, and much more.

Highlights the expanding influence of economics in social science research and features new articles and biographies contributed by scholars from around the world on a wide array of global topics in the social sciences.

The online version of a classic Canadian reference work. Useful for finding basic information on people, themes and events.

A comprehensive and credible general knowledge encyclopedia. In addition to 72,000 articles on topics in every discipline, the Encyclopedia Britannica Online also provides links to 130,000 websites that have been selected and reviewed by Britannica's editorial board of experts.