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“The city is the world that human builds for himself” — wrote Wolf Schneider in 1973. The defining characteristics of human life are strongly influenced by the complex geographical-economic-social-psychological system of the environment. The triad of economic development, settlement structure, and society has created, maintained, and transformed characteristic cities.
The history of the centuries is also a montage and collage drawn into the internal structure of cities. The use and exploitation of urban geographical energies vary from era to era.
What is a city? The disciplines dealing with cities have all created their own city definitions. Each discipline has examined human settlements from different perspectives, and has created different conceptual systems and analytical methods for examining cities. The authors of this volume (geographer, sociologist Éva Izsák; art historian, sociologist Katalin S. Nagy; and environmental psychologist Andrea Dúll) argue that holistic, system-based thinking is important, useful, and timely in the 21st century reflections on the city. The authors analyse urban development
processes in general from several perspectives: the role of the network of urban spaces in the transformation of settlements, the (environmental) psychological processes related to the city, the conscious and unconscious empirical experience of the city, and the relationship between the city and nature. In addition to general urban processes, the volume contains several
studies analysing the urban experience of Budapest: the image of the city and its housing estates, the change in the visuality of public spaces, the appearance of public sculptures, the urban significance of shopping centres, and the role of the Danube as a “lived space” in Budapest. This volume is a joint book by three urbanophiles and city-experts. We recommend that the Reader use it as a textbook, as a professional and educational work, or “just for fun”, for reading.
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