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Brooklyn Heights Cafes and shops along Montague Street in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.

urban culture

sociology
Also known as: urban society
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Richard G. Fox
President Emeritus of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Author of Gandhian Utopia: Experiments...
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urban culture, any of the behavioral patterns of the various types of cities and urban areas, both past and present. Research on urban cultures naturally focuses on their defining institution, the city, and the lifeways, or cultural forms, that grow up within cities. Urban scholarship has steadily progressed toward a conception of cities and urban cultures that is free of ethnocentrism, with broad cross-cultural and historical validity. Well into the 20th century conceptions of the...

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