REFLECTIONS ON THE CITY AND THE URBAN
THE PRESENT AS A PRODUCT OF THE PROCESS OF CONSTITUTION OF URBAN GEOGRAPHY
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https://doi.org/10.36661/2448-1092.2009v6n10.12284Keywords:
City, Urban, Urban geographyAbstract
This paper proposes a reflection that reaffirms the importance of the temporal dimension for the understanding of the city and the urban, thus avoiding treating the present situation as limited to what is “new”. We have attempted to carry out a retrospective, though not systematic or conclusive, analysis to illustrate how important it is to become aware of the production of what could be called the “knowledge” of urban geography, or, more generally, of the understanding of the city and the urban. The importance of time scale in urban research is highlighted due to the need to recover the history of the studies on cities and of the subjects addressed. The paper is divided into four parts, each one corresponding to the examples used in the discussion: the definition of the city, the study of the city, the urban network and the urban.
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