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eBook details
- Title: Centrality and Cities
- Author : James Bird
- Release Date : January 15, 2013
- Genre: Geography,Books,Science & Nature,Earth Sciences,Nonfiction,Social Science,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 8148 KB
Description
Professor Bird presents a synthesis of the many approaches to the study of a central featuer of modern life - the city, including its distant past and its future. He sees centrality as a mental projection on to space, and discusses the concept in relation to three types of its manifestation in spatial terms: the city as centre of a tributary region; the centres and central areas of cities themselves; and the city considered as a centre or gateway for other distant regions, often overseas.
This book should do much to unravel the funamental similarities between cities of the world while recognizing the myriad variations upon a common theme.
This book was first published in 1977.