An excellent, inspiring and interdisciplinary overview of major issues concerning the role of cities, urban systems and cultural regions in the past, present and future. Views are represented from different disciplinary angles and conceptual backgrounds trying to link theory with practice, analysis with innovative approaches. The book contains contributions by major scholars such as Franco Bianchini, Roger Brunet, Massimo Cacciari, Johan Galtung, Klaus Kunzmann, Krzysztof Pomian, Jacek Purchla, Jan Tanghe, Erik Swyngedouw and many others. It provides an understanding of the historical, social, cultural and spatial realities of cities, urban systems and cultural regions within the complexities of changing European societies.
| ISBN: | 9789052017082 |
| Publication date: | 2nd February 2000 |
| Author: | Eduard Mira, Léonce Bekemans |
| Publisher: | P.I.E. - Peter Lang an imprint of P.I.E.-Peter Lang S.A |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 292 pages |
| Series: | Europe Plurielle - Multiple Europes |
| Genres: |
Regional geography History and Archaeology Political science and theory Human geography Political geography |