Cities: A Window into Larger and Smaller Worlds

Autor/in	Sassen, Saskia
Titel	Cities: A Window into Larger and Smaller Worlds
Quelle	In: European Educational Research Journal, 11 (2012) 1, S.1-10 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1474-9041
DOI	10.2304/eerj.2012.11.1.1
Schlagwörter	Municipalities; Urban Studies; Global Approach; Economics; Social Theories; Sociology; Communications; Local Issues; Politics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Magistrat; Stadterkundung; Globales Denken; Volkswirtschaftslehre; Gesellschaftstheorie; Soziologie; Nachrichtenwesen; Politik
Abstract	Cities are complex systems. But they are incomplete systems. In this incompleteness lies the possibility of making--making the urban, the political, the civic, a history. The urban is not alone in having these characteristics, but these characteristics are a necessary part of the DNA of the urban. Every city is distinct and so is every discipline that studies it. And yet, if it is to be a study of the urban it will have to deal with these key features--incompleteness, complexity, and the possibility of making. This then also makes cities strategic sites for the exploration of many major subjects confronting society. But cities are not always a heuristic space--a space capable of producing knowledge about some of the major transformations of an epoch. Today, as we have entered a global era, the city is once again emerging as a strategic site for understanding some of the major new trends reconfiguring the social order. Each of those trends has its own specific contents and consequences. The urban moment is but one moment in their often complex multi-sited trajectories. (Contains 3 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10