Imagining the City: An Introduction to Conceptualization Theory
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Imagining the City: An Introduction to Conceptualization Theory
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Within the established language of description used by contemporary urbanists and sociologists, certain models of thinking about the city - in other words, conceptualizations - have been formed. Today, the concepts that form their foundation and the models of thinking themselves are experiencing a period of semantic "inflation" and are in dire need of serious reflection. This book is about such conceptualizations: about the history of their emergence and confrontation, about their philosophical foundations and attempts to put them into practice. In his study, Victor Vakhshtayn shows how the ideas of "local community," "urban everyday life," "territorial control," "public space," and "social segregation" became fixed in the language of sociologists, architects, and planners, and how they were transformed from categories of knowledge into instruments of management. Conceptualization theory finds in the chaotic diversity of modern megacities traces of utopian cities created by the research imagination, from Bourdieuopolis to Ciudad Delanda. Victor Vakhshtayn is a PhD candidate in sociology, MA in sociology at the University of Manchester, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences (Shaninka), and Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology at the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.
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