Urban means "related to cities. " It may also refer to:

• Urban area, a geographical area (including cities and towns) distinct from rural areas
• Urban agglomeration, a contiguous urban area made of multiple cities, towns, and suburbs
• Urban culture, associated with cities, especially hip hop culture
• Urban decay resulting from high levels of unemployment, crime and depopulation
• Urban design relating to transport planning and landscape architecture
• Urban economics the study of urban economies and their microeconomics
• Urban exploration venturing into the hidden parts of the built environment
• Urban heat island, climate change
• Urban legend, various rumors and legends of modern times
• Urban planning, the discipline of land use planning which deals with the physical, social, and economic development of metropolitan regions, municipalities and neighbourhoods
• Urban primacy, the disproportionate size of a major city compared to other cities in a country. In the study of human settlements an agglomeration is an extended City or Town area comprising the built-up area of a central place ( usually a Municipality Urban culture is the Culture of cities. Cities all over the world past and present have behaviors and cultural elements that separate them from otherwise comparable Urban decay is a process by which a City, or a part of a city falls into a state of disrepair Unemployment occurs when a person is available to work and currently seeking work but the person is without work. In the sociological field, crime is the breach of a rule or Law for which some governing authority or force may ultimately prescribe a Punishment Depopulation is a term used to describe any great reduction in a human population Urban design concerns the arrangement appearance and functionality of towns and cities and in particular the shaping and uses of urban Public space. Transportation planning is the field involved with the siting of Transportation facilities (generally Streets Highways sidewalks bike lanes and Public Landscape architecture involves the investigation and designed response to the landscape Urban Economics is broadly the economic study of urban areas As such it involves using the tools of economics to analyze urban issues such as crime education public transit housing An economy is the realized social system of production exchange distribution and consumption of goods and services of a country or other area Microeconomics is a branch of Economics that studies how individuals households and firms and some states make decisions to allocate limited resources typically in markets Urban exploration (often shortened as urbex or UE) is the examination of the normally unseen or off-limits parts of urban areas or industrial facilities The phrase built environment refers to the man-made surroundings that provide the setting for human activity ranging from the large-scale civic surroundings to the personal places An urban heat island ( UHI) is a metropolitan area which is significantly warmer than its surrounding rural areas An urban legend or urban myth is a form of modern Folklore consisting of stories thought to be factual by those circulating them In Urban studies, urban primacy indicates a city whose population is at least twice as large as that of the next largest city in a country
• Urban sociology human interaction and group dynamics in cities
• Urban structure relating to land use and zones in cities
• Urban tribe relating to city subcultures

Proper names

• Urban (name) (disambiguation page)
• Urban (newspaper), a Danish free daily newspaper
• Urban contemporary and Mainstream Urban, music synonymous with the contemporary musical genres of black origin
• Urban Adult Contemporary
• Contemporary R&B, "Urban Pop"
• Urban Records, a record label
• Urban Takeover, a record label

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 Group dynamics is the study of groups and also a general term for group processes Urban structure is the arrangement of land use in urban areas Land use' is also often used to refer to the distinct land use types in Zoning. For the term in biology see Subculture (biology. For the song by New Order see Sub-culture (song. For the term in biology see Subculture (biology. For the song by New Order see Sub-culture (song. Urban is a common name from the Latin urbanus (from the city Papal name Urban was a popular name for Popes Urban is a Danish Free daily newspaper owned by Det Berlingske Officin. The Kingdom of Denmark ( ˈd̥ænmɑɡ̊ (archaic ˈd̥anmɑːɡ̊ commonly known as Denmark, is a country in the Scandinavian region of northern Europe Urban contemporary is a music Radio format. The term was coined by the late New York DJ Frankie Crocker in the mid 1970s Mainstream urban is a term used to describe a radio format similar to an Urban contemporary format Urban adult contemporary is the name for a format of radio music similar to an Urban contemporary format Contemporary R&B (also known as R&B, urban) is a Music genre of western Popular music (predominantly American and Canadian Urban Records is a German Record label subisdiary of Universal Music Group. Urban Takeover is a Drum and bass Record label founded by DJs and recording artists Micky Finn and Aphrodite.

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