a Department of Sociology, Colorado State University, B235 Clark Building, Fort Collins, CO, 80523-1784, United States b Department of Economics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 80523-1771, United States c Environmental Planning and Sustainability Research Unit, Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3137, United State...

URBAN computing is a process of acquisition, integration, and analysis of big and heterogeneous data generated by a diversity of sources in urban spaces, such as sensors, devices, vehicles, buildings, and human, to tackle the major issues that cities face, e.g., air pollution, increased energy consumption and traffic congestion. Urban computing connects unobtrusive and ubiquitous sensing techno...

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The article examines some of the major challenges facing urban sociology at century’s end given its traditions and lineages. These challenges arise out of the intersection of major macrosocial trends and their particular spatial patterns. The city and the metropolitan region emerge as one of the strategic sites where these macrosocial trends materialize and hence can be constituted as an object...