Overview
- Presents a very original vision of urban world history
- Traces a spatial logic in world history
- Contributes to the debate about the respective impacts of geography and culture on the world history evolution
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book seeks to deepen readers’ understanding of world history by investigating urbanization and the evolution of urban systems, as well as the urban world, from the perspective of historical analysis. The theoretical framework of the approach stems directly from space-economy, and, more generally, from location theory and the theory of urban systems.
The author explores a certain logic to be found in world history, and argues that this logic is spatial (in terms of spatial inertia, spatial trends, attractive and repulsive forces, vector fields, etc.) rather than geographical (in terms of climate, precipitation, hydrography). Accordingly, the book puts forward a truly original vision of urban world history, one that will benefit economists, historians, regional scientists, and anyone with a healthy curiosity.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Luc-Normand Tellier obtained a Ph.D. in Regional Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1973. He founded the Department of Urban Studies and Tourism of the University of Quebec at Montreal in 1976. He is the author of numerous books in regional science, as well as in French and Canadian history, and he has published in international journals such as the Journal of Regional Science, Regional Science Policy and Practice, Geographical Analysis, and Environment and Planning A. He received the title of Professor Emeritus in 2012.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Urban World History
Book Subtitle: An Economic and Geographical Perspective
Authors: Luc-Normand Tellier
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24842-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-24841-3Published: 27 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-24844-4Published: 28 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-24842-0Published: 14 September 2019
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XVI, 463
Number of Illustrations: 53 b/w illustrations, 35 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic History, Urban History, Economic Geography, Urban Economics