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1st ed.

London : Routledge, 2006

xiv,298 s. : il.

ISBN 978-0-415-33100-5 (brož.)

Key ideas in geography

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Bibliografie na s. [249]-278

Města - urbanismus - pojednání

Sociologie města - studie

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// City provides an accessible yet critical introduction to one of the key ideas in human geography. Always at the heart of discussions in social theory, the definition and specification of the city nonetheless remains elusive. In this volume, Phil Hubbard locates the concept of the city within current traditions of social thought, providing a basis for understanding its varying usages and meanings through a critical discussion of the contributiomof major theories and thinkers. This book thus offers a distinctive and timely intervention in debates in urban theory by suggesting new ways that students and scholars in sociology, geography, urban studies, planning and politics can make sense of the city. // Written in a lively and accessible style, the individual chapters of City offer a thematic overview of some important ways of approaching cities, whether as imagined realms, lived-in places, networks of association or spaces of flow. Situating these traditions within the rich heritage of urban studies and urban sociology, the book develops the argument that none of these approaches, when taken alone, hčlps us grasp the specificity of the urban, but that each is vital for grasping the materiality of cities. The book thus spells out the case for a renewed urban geography, suggesting that it is only by combining these different ways of approaching the city that we can begin to understand the relational materiality of urban life. // Phil Hubbard is Reader in Urban Social Geography

at Loughborough University. // Geography / Urban Studies // Cover image: Getty Images // Ö Routledge // Taylor