JOHN URRY

Lash y Urry estudian cuadros de socioeconomías contemporáneas, buscando en ellos la potencialidad de una nueva vida comunitaria. Al mismo tiempo, toman los conceptos clásicos de la sociología y los trasforman o sustituyen para elaborar las herramientas que abran la comprensión del presente sociohistórico. El despliegue de la vida contemporá...

Contains significant essays on the sociology of place. Interrogates nature of time and place, how places are economically and culturally transformed and the ways in which travel has changed nature and the environment.

It is difficult to imagine a world without the car, and yet that is exactly what Dennis and Urry set out to do in this provocative new book. They argue that the days of the car are numbered: powerful forces around the world are undermining the car system and will usher in a new transport system sometime in the next few decades. Specifically, the...

Contains significant essays on the sociology of place. Interrogates nature of time and place, how places are economically and culturally transformed and the ways in which travel has changed nature and the environment.