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Urban studies is a field within the social sciences that examines the history and current developments of urban areas. Researchers in this field focus on how cities continuously grow and change through analyzing events and relationships (have you found a definition of this that you can cite?). Urban studies is a broader academic area of interest(this sentence is a bit redundant). This field (not necessarily the field itself, but the theories and information it proposes) can inform the development of urban planning policies that will shape how cities evolve in the future. The field originated primarily from the United Kingdom and the United States, (citation on this?) and has spread to research how international cities apply this research. (Now let's see if we had in mind the same changes)

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Urban studies is based on the study of the urban development of city. This includes studying the history of city development from an architectural point of view, to the impact of urban design on community development efforts. Urban studies helps with the understanding of human values, development, and the interactions they have with their physical environment. (some of the general information in the first paragraph is good for someone who just wants the cliffnotes, suggest include country or city of origin and what the research attempts to accomplish especially its implications for the future and government)

(this section I suggest belongs to history because it is more detailed than the information given in the original version>)The first college programs were created to observe how cities were developed based off anthropological research of poor communities and how In the mid-1900's, urban study programs began not just looking at the current and historical impacts of city design, they began studying how those designs impacted the future interactions of people and how to improve city development through architecture, open spaces, the interactions of people, and different types of capital that forms a community.