Professor Bird presents a synthesis of the many approaches to the study of a central featuer of modern life - the city, including its distant past and its future. He sees centrality as a mental projection on to space, and discusses the concept in relation to three types of its manifestation in spatial terms: the city as centre of a tributary region; the centres and central areas of cities themselves; and the city considered as a centre or gateway for other distant regions, often overseas.
This book should do much to unravel the funamental similarities between cities of the world while recognizing the myriad variations upon a common theme.
This book was first published in 1977.
- ISBN10 0710084455
- ISBN13 9780710084453
- Publish Date January 1977
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 October 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Routledge & Kegan Paul Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 239
- Language English