In the end, though, Mr. Maple was always more cop than urban theorist.

He influenced his field mainly as a teacher and urban theorist.

These plans were never implemented comprehensively, a fact which today's urban theorists regard as fortunate for vitality and diversity.

Sociologists and urban theorists have noted a gradual and broad shift of values over the past decade.

But Mr. Goodman was best known as an urban theorist.

But paying the practical cost of that change are not the urban theorists above, but the locksmiths and hatters below.

These urban theorists have not been advocating anarchy.

But if ever there were a moment to invoke the celebrated urban theorist out of her usual context, this is the time.

The first gut reaction of the urban theorists early in the century was to place them far apart from each other.

Percival Goodman was also considered a distinguished urban theorist.