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by Marie-Françoise Durand, Jacques Lévy, Denis Retaillé · Les Presses de Sciences Po · tapa blanda · 596 pages
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Le Monde: Espaces et Systèmes es un análisis profundo de las complejidades del mundo moderno, explorando cómo las divisiones tradicionales ya no son suficientes para comprenderlo. Este libro ofrece un nuevo enfoque, examinando el mundo a través de cuatro perspectivas clave: el modelo estatal, la transacción económica, la distancia cultural y la sociedad global. A través del análisis de situaciones específicas y la combinación de enfoques a diferentes escalas, desde la ciudad hasta el continente, los autores revelan cómo el mundo opera como un sistema de sistemas. Con un enfoque espacial y recurriendo a diversas ciencias sociales, el libro proporciona textos y mapas que fomentan el pensamiento crítico y la imaginación teórica.
Jacques Lévy is a professor of geography and urbanism at the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He is the director of Chôros Laboratory and of the Doctoral Program in Architecture and Science of the City. He is the cofounder of the scientific journal EspacesTemps.net. He published in French, along with Michel Lussault, the dictionary of geography and space of societies, Dictionnaire de la géographie et de l’espace des sociétés.He has contributed to in the epistemological and theoretical reform of geography as a science of the spatial dimension of the social, open to the social sciences and philosophy. Starting from political geography, he has most notably explored the city, urbanity, Europe and globalization. He works also for the introduction of non-verbal languages, especially audio-visual languages, at all levels of research. In 2013 he made a feature film, Urbanity/ies, which is intended as a manifesto for scientific film.
