Broadly, Urbanism is a focus on cities and urban areas, their geography, economies, politics, social characteristics, as well as the effects on, and caused by, the built environment. Urbanism is distinct from new urbanism in that it shies away from greenfield development in favor of revitalizing existing urban areas. Urbanism as a philosophy The philosophy of urbanism posits that traditional cities are vitally important to society. Cites or other dense human settlements are said to serve a varie… (More on Urbanism)