This book presents the current state of urban research in the relevant disciplines in a comprehensible way. The author offers insights into the views of the key disciplines that deal with urbanism, such as sociology, geography, spatial and urban planning, history, philosophy, and political science. He also takes language philosophy into account and shows the different meanings of concepts related to cities in a dozen word languages. An overview of the central approaches and theories as well as of their practical application enables the readers to see a familiar topic in a new way.weiterlesen