urban world

"City Worlds" is the first volume in the "Understanding Cities" series. "Understanding the City" is a series of books planned by the Open University, a famous British higher education institution, that examines cities under the concept of contemporary globalization from a new perspective. The series of books planned by the "Open University" are famous for their rigorous planning and lively writing. They consider the needs of readers and use sufficient and diverse empirical examples, charts, activities and important article selections to outline important concepts and research topics in specific fields, and can be related to daily life. Life experience connection.

"Understanding the City" attempts to view the city from a new perspective. In order to fully understand contemporary cities, the authors advocate the use of geographical imagination to understand how cities are created. On the one hand, they must be placed in the context of social relations that extend beyond the city; on the other hand, they must be placed within the society within the city. In the intertwining of relationships. The development of these arguments will show that cities cannot be thought of in terms of a single geography and a single historical perspective, and therefore cannot have only one future. On the contrary, cities are characterized by openness: open to new opportunities, but also to new human interactions. This series of books will gradually reveal the difficulties and paradoxes of the inevitable openness of cities, where various histories and geographies overlap. Clearly, then, we must understand these issues if we are to learn to live in an increasingly urban world.

As the first volume in the series, "Understanding the City" presents the overall argument and focus of the series. In this era of globalization, the argument of this book is that the problems and possibilities embodied and displayed by cities are one of the most important issues facing the earth at this moment. For the first time in history, more than half of the population lives not just in cities but in megacities. Thousands of new people arrive in cities around the world every day. This geographical phenomenon, with the world's population so concentrated, is unprecedented. What possibilities and problems does this new geographical situation bring? How do we analyze and explain it?

Indeed, much has been written about cities because of their central importance. The approach taken in this book is both to take into account a wide range of existing material and to propose different perspectives. "Urban World" pursues the unstated spatial relationships in cities and tells new urban stories. From these stories, a new understanding of the city emerged. By exploring various issues, we can begin to raise questions about the future of cities, as well as issues and possibilities surrounding issues such as inequality, tolerance, democracy and sustainability.

Features of this book

The influence of cities on us can no longer be underestimated.

This is a textbook, but it is also a textbook that is not so textbook.

What is a "city"? There are so many discussions about cities in academia and art circles, and so many praises about cities in the imaginations of poets and musicians. In the age of globalization, what will the city look like to us?

The singer uses romantic lyrics to paint a landscape painting belonging to the city, and this book tells you through in-depth analysis and simple language what a city is.