Routledge The City: Critical Essays in Human Geography (Contemporary Foundations of Space and Place)

Product Description 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. About the Author Jacques Lévy is Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.