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URBAN GEOGRAPHY,Vol.39,Issue10,P.1603-1607

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英文

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作者单位

[Merrifield, Andy] Univ Cambridge, Murray Edwards Coll, Cambridge, England. Merrifield, A (reprint author), Univ Cambridge, Murray Edwards Coll, Cambridge, England. E-Mail: Andymerrifield10@gmail.com

摘要

This paper suggests that planetary urbanisation offers an antidote to the narrow-mindedness of our toxic times. It conceives planetary urbanisation as "an affair of perception," as a vision that begins vast, at the horizon, and sees particular parts (including your own particular part) comprising an interdependent totality. To envision the world through the lens of planetary urbanisation has certain distinct advantages. After all, it's a viewpoint expressive of commonality rather than difference, of a mutually shared planet in which people who look different, who talk different from one another, who don't know one another, who may even hate one another, have more in common than they might think.