Name: The City in Geography: Renaturing the Built Environment (in English)
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Author: Benedict Anderson
ISBN: 9781138645547

portada The City in Geography: Renaturing the Built Environment (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Benedict Anderson

Publisher

Routledge

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

238

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9781138645547

Edition No.

Synopsis "The City in Geography: Renaturing the Built Environment (in English)"

Monumental in scale and epic in development, cities have become the most visible and significant symbol of human progress. The geography on and around which they are constructed, however, has come to be viewed merely in terms of its resources and is often laid to waste once its assets have been stripped. The City in Geography is an urban exploration through this phenomenon, from settlement to city through physical geography, which reveals an incremental progression of removing terrain, topography and geography from the built environment, ushering in and advancing global destruction and instability. This book explains how the fall of geography in relationship to human survival has come through the loss of contact between urban dwellers and physical terrain, and details the radical rethinking required to remedy the separations between the city, its inhabitants and the landscape upon which it was built.

Benedict Anderson

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Benedict Anderson (1936-2015), quien fuera profesor emérito de Estudios internacionales de la Cornell University, fue un reputado politólogo, perspicaz analista del nacionalismo moderno y de la naturaleza de los imperios multiétnicos. Ensayista de prestigio internacional, entre sus numerosas publicaciones destacan The Spectre of Comparisons (1998), Language and Power (1990) y, sobre todo, el ya clásico Comunidades imaginadas. Reflexiones sobre el origen y la difusión del nacionalismo (1993).

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