ABSTRACT

The spread of urbanization has transformed the concept of the city, but the way urban planners, urban scientists and, above all, urban dwellers address it has also changed, probably even more so. The city is thus a new topic for geography, a discipline that has experienced an ambiguous relationship to cities in the past. What kind of geography is required in order to bring fresh insight to this renewed field? Drawing together a wide range of texts from philosophers, sociologists and economist as well as geographers and urban planners, this volume provides a theoretical framework within which this question can begin to be explored.

part |2 pages

PART I THE CITY AS A CONCEPT

chapter |74 pages

A City Is....

chapter |66 pages

The Open City and its Enemies

chapter |56 pages

Making the Complexity Thinkable

part |2 pages

PART II URBANNESS, URBANITY

chapter |58 pages

Public Space: Beyond Urban Design

chapter |76 pages

Gentrification: Not So Simple

chapter |34 pages

Mobility: Not Only Technology

chapter |40 pages

Co-Presence: A Future, Unexpected

part |2 pages

PART III THE CITY AT STAKE

chapter |38 pages

The City as Agency: Discourses

chapter |110 pages

Urban Flights

chapter |28 pages

New Avenues for the City