The conceptual and epistemological complexity in the field of study of urban management and its dynamic characteristic of adaptation to each context, has made it increasingly difficult both to measure and to perform. Given this fact, using the methodology of bibliometric character, this work has the objective of mapping the terrain of intellectual production on urban management and to know the previous production. As a result, it was possible to identify that scientific production in the area of urban management is a field of gradual growth in the last years and, that the best evaluated and most cited journals and authors, respectively, can support the theoretical foundation and support of future research, in order to increase the relevant field of knowledge of urban management.