Cities are places where people live, work, play, communicate, innovate, and coexist, and where they have access to diverse facilities and opportunities. The city can also be regarded as a symbolic and cultural space that produces and reflects meanings, identities, stories, and practices. Therefore, the city has an impact on and is influenced by political, economic, social, cultural, and ecological forces and processes at the local, national, and global levels. In a series of short blogposts, I will give some possible perspectives of looking at the city.
