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Guide picks
Discover the fascinating subject of urban geography and learn all about the cities of the world and their development, growth, and distribution.

Edge Cities
From your About.com Guide, edge cities are sprouting up everywhere.

The Law of the Primate City and the Rank-Size Rule
From your About.com Guide, the largest city in a country usually symbolizes the entire country.

Levittown
Articles and links devoted to the classic housing development in American and its founders.

Megalopolis
From your About.com Guide, geographer Jean Gottmann defined the area from Boston to Washington as one huge urban area.

Metropolitan Areas Population Estimates
From your About.com Guide, the Census Bureau recently released their population estimates for the United States' largest cities.

Sprawl
Great resources and information about sprawl.

Urban Planning and the New Urbanism
A vast collection of resources and information devoted to making cities better through planning and the New Urbanism movement.

The Von Thünen Model
From your About.com Guide, an overview of the Von Thünen Isolated State model of land use.

Cities in History
Ten lectures from a Cities in History course by Dr. Richard Ingersoll of Rice University's School of Architecture. The lectures provide historical background about the history of the city and focus on eight specific world cities.

City Profiles
Short profiles of 21 major world cities from the United Nations.

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