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How useful is the identification of tensions to an understanding of cities dd304
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The identification of the tensions that exist within a city are vital to enable us to understand cities and the way we imagine them. Cities are great open intensities, where commodities, information, products and people are brought together. As a result of this great coming together we are left with a range, diversity and difference that is not found, at such a scale, in places other than cities. One key facet of the book is how the city cannot be understood just by looking at its physical geography, individual communities and networks, it is the interaction of these communities and networks that are centred within, yet reach out beyond, the physical limits of the city. The difference and diversity of these heterogeneous networks and associations within a city lead to tensions as these groups are found in close proximity. To understand a city we need to look beneath its overall impression and...
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