Name: The City in Geography: Renaturing the Built Environment
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Author: Anderson, Benedict
ISBN: 9781138645547

portada The City in Geography: Renaturing the Built Environment

The City in Geography: Renaturing the Built Environment

Type

Physical Book

Author

Benedict Anderson

Publisher

Routledge

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

238

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9781138645547

Edition No.

Synopsis "The City in Geography: Renaturing the Built Environment "

Monumental in scale and epic in development, cities have become the most visible and significant symbol of human progress. The geography on and around which they are constructed, however, has come to be viewed merely in terms of its resources and is often laid to waste once its assets have been stripped. The City in Geography is an urban exploration through this phenomenon, from settlement to city through physical geography, which reveals an incremental progression of removing terrain, topography and geography from the built environment, ushering in and advancing global destruction and instability. This book explains how the fall of geography in relationship to human survival has come through the loss of contact between urban dwellers and physical terrain, and details the radical rethinking required to remedy the separations between the city, its inhabitants and the landscape upon which it was built.

Benedict Anderson

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Benedict Anderson (Kunming, China, August 26, 1936 – Malang, Indonesia, December 13, 2015) was an American historian and political scientist whose name is fundamental in studies on modern nationalism. He gained international renown with his influential work Imagined Communities, where he proposed that nations are not natural or eternal entities, but social constructions formed through the press, shared language, and a collective memory. His concept of "imagined community" revolutionized the way nations are understood, highlighting how millions of people can feel part of the same group despite never meeting.

Throughout his extensive academic career, Anderson specialized in Southeast Asia, focusing his approach on countries like Indonesia and the Philippines. He was distinguished by his interdisciplinary and critical perspective, which merged history, politics, sociology, and cultural studies to address collective identity and national construction. His legacy has been celebrated both in the Anglo-Saxon world and in Asia, inspiring new generations of researchers and fueling the debate on the nature and evolution of national identities.

Anderson's work and thought continue to be key in disciplines such as history, sociology, and political science. His innovative outlook and penetrating analysis remain relevant among academics, scholars, and readers interested in understanding the processes that underpin the formation of contemporary communities and nations.

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