The nature of space /
The Nature of Space is a translation of pioneering geographer Milton Santos' A Natureza do Espaço, originally published in Brazil in 1996. The book offers a theory of human space based on relationships between time and ontology, producing a system of ideas that can catalyze a descriptive and in...
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Durham, North Carolina :
Duke University Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction to the English-language edition
- Milton Santos : rebel of the backlands, insurgent academic, prescient scholar / Susanna Hecht
- Techniques, time, and geographic space
- Space : systems of objects, systems of action
- Geographic space, a hybrid
- Space and the notion of totality
- From the diversification of nature to the territorial division of labor
- Time (events) and space
- The current technical system
- Unicities : the production of planetary intelligence
- Objects and actions today : norms and territory
- From the natural milieu to the technical-scientific-informational milieu
- For a geography of networks
- Horizontalities and verticalities
- Spaces of rationality
- Place and the everyday
- Universal order, local order: Summary and conclusion.