Skip to main content

Lund University Publications

LUND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

Territories and networks in Europe : In search of a spatial order

Törnqvist, Gunnar LU (2018) p.85-109
Abstract

Medieval Europe was characterized by geopolitical disorder and territorial disunion. Around 1500 AD, as the modern era dawned, Europe comprised some 1,500 districts which were largely politically independent. Gradually, medium sized territories emerged around cores made up of cultural, economic, and political centres. The Lake Malar area in Sweden was such a territory; London, Paris, Berlin-Potsdam, Vienna, and Moscow formed the cores of others. The Spanish born sociologist Manuel Castells, who works in the USA, has described the increasing transnational mobility in peculiarly drastic terms, coining the phrase ‘from a space of locations to a space of flows’. The ensuing presentation of the European urban landscape is coloured by the... (More)

Medieval Europe was characterized by geopolitical disorder and territorial disunion. Around 1500 AD, as the modern era dawned, Europe comprised some 1,500 districts which were largely politically independent. Gradually, medium sized territories emerged around cores made up of cultural, economic, and political centres. The Lake Malar area in Sweden was such a territory; London, Paris, Berlin-Potsdam, Vienna, and Moscow formed the cores of others. The Spanish born sociologist Manuel Castells, who works in the USA, has described the increasing transnational mobility in peculiarly drastic terms, coining the phrase ‘from a space of locations to a space of flows’. The ensuing presentation of the European urban landscape is coloured by the idea that contacts, the processing of information, and the building of new knowledge form powerful driving forces in European social evolution. The western part of Europe was moulded by repeated migrations, by Medieval urban development, and by the tenets and styles of the Renaissance.

(Less)
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication:
author
organization
publishing date
type
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
publication status
published
subject
host publication
Networks in Transport and Communications : A Policy Approach - A Policy Approach
pages
25 pages
publisher
Routledge
external identifiers
  • scopus:85078647137
ISBN
9781138333673
9780429819896
DOI
10.4324/9780429445835-5
language
English
LU publication?
yes
id
2d9daf83-e6ff-4ab6-98c0-be622e70020e
date added to LUP
2020-02-11 09:03:31
date last changed
2024-03-04 14:22:56
@inbook{2d9daf83-e6ff-4ab6-98c0-be622e70020e,
  abstract     = {{<p>Medieval Europe was characterized by geopolitical disorder and territorial disunion. Around 1500 AD, as the modern era dawned, Europe comprised some 1,500 districts which were largely politically independent. Gradually, medium sized territories emerged around cores made up of cultural, economic, and political centres. The Lake Malar area in Sweden was such a territory; London, Paris, Berlin-Potsdam, Vienna, and Moscow formed the cores of others. The Spanish born sociologist Manuel Castells, who works in the USA, has described the increasing transnational mobility in peculiarly drastic terms, coining the phrase ‘from a space of locations to a space of flows’. The ensuing presentation of the European urban landscape is coloured by the idea that contacts, the processing of information, and the building of new knowledge form powerful driving forces in European social evolution. The western part of Europe was moulded by repeated migrations, by Medieval urban development, and by the tenets and styles of the Renaissance.</p>}},
  author       = {{Törnqvist, Gunnar}},
  booktitle    = {{Networks in Transport and Communications : A Policy Approach}},
  isbn         = {{9781138333673}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{85--109}},
  publisher    = {{Routledge}},
  title        = {{Territories and networks in Europe : In search of a spatial order}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429445835-5}},
  doi          = {{10.4324/9780429445835-5}},
  year         = {{2018}},
}