Between 1815 and 1900 the nation fought wars that protected its independence, expanded its continental frontiers, and subdued Native Americans; it survived a bloody Civil War; and it won a "Splendid Little War" against Spain that created...

The term urbanization appears in the literature of nearly every social science; within each it is used loosely when the theories of the particular field are applied to the study of urban units, their populations or individuals living in urban places....

The process whereby a GREEN FIELD SITE is converted into use as a town, city or part...

By 1890 the United States had expanded from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. With growing populations in the Great Plains and the West, the frontier was considered closed. But the nation was far from settled. The turn of the century would be a time...

Urbanization or Urbanisation means the removal of the rural characteristics of a town or area, a process associated with the development of civilization. Demographically, the term denotes redistribution of populations from rural to urban...

Urban dance is often regarded as a new phenomenon, but hip hop's roots reach further back than the 1980s. Zach Morris, a choreographer and Inter/National Programs Associate with New York City's Dance Theater Workshop (he coordinates cultural artist exchanges and residencies), recently set out...

When Saddam Hussein sidekick Tariq Aziz was captured recently, a casual reader scanning the coverage could be forgiven for mistaking the English word "urbane" for the title of Aziz's Iraqi government job. Almost everywhere you saw Aziz's name, the word "urbane" was nearby....

It's a frosted Sunday night in downtown Detroit. Further along the block from a musical production of Sesame Street Live sits a 3,000 seater called the State Theatre. Here, hordes of chain-smoking trailer-park thugs, junior pimps, name-brand-sporting Arab princes-and the tube-top-wrapped young ladies who love...

Storyline: With Urban Chaos, you play as Nick Mason head of a special unit called T-Zero, a task force that has been put together to help stop terrorist forces - and in this case, street gangs - that are trying to take over the city....

Provides an investigation into the economic, social, political and environmental factors causing urbanization.