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How to ask about the continuity of a city? A gloss on the broader thesis

• Języki publikacji: PL

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This essay deals with the logic of asking about continuity, especially the continuity of a city. At first, it outlines intellectual tracks of questioning such terms as “thing”, “culture”, “tradition”, “city”, “beauty” and “poetry”, in order to indicate ways of thinking about them (so the ways connected with common knowledge or rooted in scientific patterns of methodology), which could be used to examine the term “continuity”. In the second chapter of this article particular attention is given to some kinds of answering, strictly related to urban domain. That part begins with the continuity of spatial layout and material fabric (on the example of the succession of urban structure passing from ancient Greek and Roman towns to the following Islamic world in the Middle Ages), then there are shown: the dynamic continuity of political affiliation (with the historical illustration of Peloponnesian Monemvasia), the permanence of breaking with the actual state and chronic weakening of the condition of a city, provoked gradually by natural circumstances (the case of British Dunwich), and the persistence and will to survive even within a hostile territory (embodied by Tiahuanaco in Andean Mountains). Finally, the continuity of spatial discontinuity is taken into account (through the phenomenon of Venetian, Roman and Nazi ghetto). The main conclusions are as follows: the procedure of questioning the idea of continuity: (i) usually refers to its real and physical (= available to human senses) equivalents situated as well as determined both temporally and spatially; (ii) delegates our attention to the defined scope of validity (for instance – connected with a scientific discipline); (iii) corresponds with the techniques of interpretation of other related terms; and (iv) takes into consideration a dichotomic perspective, namely – either ontological, or epistemological search (after all – very often including both of them).

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• Czasopismo: Prace i Studia Geograficzne
• Rocznik: 2017
• Tom: 62
• Numer: 3
• Opis fizyczny: s.7‐30,bibliogr.

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