Centrality and Cities

ISBN-13: 9780415860437 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 222 str.

James Bird

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction: Conjectures on centrality

1. Centre genesis

2. Evolution of central areas

3. In downtown (1): the framework of order

4. In downtown (2): Measurement, accessibility, change

5. Centre-periphery contrasts

6. Three theory types as variations of city centrality

7. Centrality, perception and the future

8. Envoi

 

O autorze

Bird, James