The City: An Interdisciplinary Introduction to Urban Studies

This book presents the current state of urban research across various disciplines. The author offers insights into the views of the those key disciplines that deal with urbanism, such as sociology, geography, spatial and urban planning, history, philosophy and political science. He also takes language philosophy into account and shows the different meanings of concepts related to cities in a dozen languages. An overview of the central approaches and theories as well as their practical application enables readers to look at a familiar topic in a new light.