Spatial Questions

Rob Shields is Henry Marshall Tory Chair and Professor in the Departments of Sociology and of Art and Design. Previously he was Professor of Sociology and past Director of the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies at Carleton University. His focus has been urban cultural studies, particularly the social use and meanings of the built environment, urban spaces and regions, including tourist destinations, local identities, and the impact of changing spatializations on cultural identities. This intellectual project has been extended through a peer-reviewed journal Space and Culture (SAGE) founded in 1997. He is the author of Lefebvre, Love and Struggle (Routledge, 1998), which is a widely cited classic in the field. He′s also authored or edited, among others, Ecologies of Affect (WLUP, 2011), What Is A City? Rethinking the Urban After Hurricane Katrina (UGP, 2008), The Virtual (Routledge, 2002), Places on the Margin and Lifestyle Shopping (both Routledge, 1992).

′Rob Shields provides here an immensely sophisticated and detailed examination of the topological turn. He has been examining these issues for some decades and this book will surely become the standard work on cultural and spatial topology′

• OverturesFrom the Shan Hai Jing to Herodotus′ Historiae and to Idrisi′s Kitab NuzhatMediterranean GeographiesSpatialisation and Space-TimeThe Argument of this BookSpatialisationsSpace as Problem: Etymology/Translation′L′espace Lefebvre′Respecting Lefebvre: Critical TensionsThe Spatialisations of Places and RegionsMemorial and Anticipatory Spatialisation: Time-SpacesVieux Quebec: The Example of Tourist PracticesHistories of SpaceMediterranean Geometric SpaceNorthern Europe: Mathematical SpaceDimensionality: Three, Four or More?FlatnessRelativistic SpaceThe Socialness of SpaceRecognising SpatialisationMarx: The Economics of LandEngels: Inequality and the Built EnvironmentSimmel: Spatial Projections of Social FormsCultural Understanding of Space: Emile DurkheimPhysical Planning, Land Use Planning, Spatialisation and Spatial SemanticsSpatial StrugglesDiscourses on SpaceTopologies′Another Kind of Analysis′ - Beyond GeometryConnectivity and SchematicsGeometry and TopologyThe Seven Bridges of KönigsburgNon-Euclidean SpaceThe Topological SensoriumDimensionality and OrientabilityTopological Archetypes: Folds, Bridges, LabyrinthsThe ′Plushness′ of the RealCultural TopologyDiagramsDeleuze Folding FoucaultHeterotopias of ScaleScale and TopologyTopology and the Social - Networks, Surfaces and MilieuxRelations and Boundary ObjectsCultural TopologyA Topology of ExperienceThe CuspGlossary of Terms