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Author(s): Harry Jansen
ISBN(s): 1859734375
Edition: First Edition
File Details: PDF, 2.50 MB
Year: 2001
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1859734375
ISBN 13: 9781859734377
Author: Harry Jansen

This book offers a new theoretical basis for urban studies and for historical studies in general by addressing one of the main problems that confronts contemporary historians. How is it possible to process and synthesize an increasingly overwhelming amount of specialist research in the face of the theoretical deadlock caused by postmodernism? How can we move beyond its claim that the past is unknowable? Jansen’s approach – in which he claims there is a reality that is accessible to our cognitive capacities – is based on Systems Theory, which has already been applied so successfully in the fields of management and organization.

While focusing his attention on urban historiography, Jansen argues that an integrative systems approach can be used in any field of historical enquiry to create a meaningful picture of the past. He illustrates the importance of structuring data in this way by looking at the profound complexity of the urban environment. This book is therefore important reading not only for urban historians and geographers but also for all social scientists interested in the future study of the European city.

The Construction of an Urban Past Narrative and System in Urban History 1st Table of contents:

Part I: Systems Theory and Urban Historiography
Introduction
Wrestling with the Angle: On Problems of Definition in Urban Historiography

Part II: Relatively‑Closed and Half‑Open Systems
Relatively‑Closed Systems and a World Full of Black Boxes
Half‑Open and Open Systems, Order and Choice

Part III: Relatively‑Closed System Construction in Urban Historiography
Cites as Quasi‑personages: The Long‑Term Studies
Uncovering an Urban Biography: Closed‑System Constructions of Individual Cities

Part IV: Half‑Open System Constructions in Urban Historiography
Babushkas of City Systems: Macro Levels in Long‑Term Urban Studies
Uncovering the Micro‑Level: Sub‑system Constructions in Urban Historiography

Part V: Time and Temporal Arrangement
Time and Entities: Subjectifying and Objectifying Conceptions
Time and (Dis)Continuity: Arrangements of Time

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