A SOCIO-PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT (II)
A SOCIO-PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT (II)

Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on the analyses of the concept/expression of Louis Wirth's urbanism as a way of life. Wirth characterizes modern city through three essential dimensions: number, density and heterogeneity. But Wirth is criticized because he tends to understand the city from a uniform perspective, or there are many ways to live in a city. The process of urbanization is a key dimension of the socio-philosophical perspective on the human communities. Another relatively recent socio-philosophical approach of the urban refers to the emergence of the so-called post-modern city. Its essential feature is decentralization and it is predominantly oriented to consumption, but also to highlighting of a cultural identity.

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