Module 1: From rural to urban
  Lecture 1:What is 'urban'?
 

 

What defines Urbanism?

  • Refers to social patterns and behaviours associated with living in cities.

  • Seen as one of the consequences of urbanization with its changes in values, mores, customs and behaviours of population.

  • Implicit premise in much writing about cities today is that cities produce a characteristic way of life known as urbanism. We will discuss it in details in the section on the theories of urban sociology.