Spatial Cultures by Sam Griffiths, Alexander von Lnen - 9781138601666

Spatial CulturesTowards a New Social Morphology of Cities Past and Present\nAuthor(s): Sam Griffiths, Alexander von Lnen\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138601666, 978-1138601666\nSynopsis\nWhat is the relationship between how cities work and what cities mean? Spatial Cultures: Towards a New Social Morphology of Cities Past and Present announces an innovative research agenda for urban studies in which themes and methods from urban history, social theory and built environment research are brought into dialogue across disciplinary and chronological boundaries. The collection confronts the recurrent epistemological impasse that arises between research focussing on the description of material built environments and that which is concerned primarily with the people who inhabit, govern and write about cities past and present. A reluctance to engage substantively with this issue has been detrimental to scholarly effor.