Chronopolis: temporal concept of translocal place
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The paper reflects the issues of place-based rhythmicity, urban temporality and more general relations between time and space. The research focus is linked to the work of Yi-Fu Tuan, Edward Relph and David Seamon, as well as to the studies of Mikhail Bakhtin, Henri Lefebvre a Mike Crang dealing with (urban) temporality. We do not apply purely spatial conceptualization of place as many geographical concepts do. Place has been conceptualized here as a locality related to many other places through time or rhythm. The nature of place is defined not only by its physical settings. It is synchronized with other places through superlocal urban rhythms, defined by the contents, functions and meanings of other distant localities. The empirical part of the paper stems from the observation of numerous localities in Brno (Czech Republic) drawing the attention to the timespace concept of translocal place called chronopolis. |