Cities and spatial construction

Cities and spatial construction

[SHS:ANTHRO_SE] Humanities and Social Sciences/Social Anthropology and ethnology

[SHS:SOCIO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology

[SHS:ARCHI] Humanities and Social Sciences/Architecture, space management

Cities

mobility

urban minorities

french case

Cities are empirical realities, the concrete dimension of which is fundamental because it is thus that they present themselves through certain architectural styles, certain modes of circulation, habitation, activity, and populations that are more or less heterogeneous. But the sciences concerned with cities that appeared in the twentieth century sought to integrate descriptive intent with theoretical formulations so as to explain the agglomeration as a model, or system, corresponding to a certain type of space.<br /><br />First defined by all authors in contrast to the rural – in any case, until the mid-twentieth century –, this distinction gradually showed itself to be obsolete as the real and virtual boundaries between urban and rural spaces vanished. This fundamental transformation is one of the most stimulating aspects of contemporary thought on the city.

Bouly De Lesdain, Sophie

Raulin, Anne

2008

ENG

preprint

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00256310

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/25/63/10/PDF/Cities_and_spatial.SBdL_pdf.pdf