From the Polis to the METR opolis: City and pol space

The city, the city, as a physical space is the lloc of life, the sphere of protection and retreat on man combines life with death. But also on man shapes his space of citizenship, on traces his border, the pomerioum, which separates him from others and from the gods: the legal border and the sacred border. At the conjunction of both senses, the city is forged as civitas, that is, as a space of power on citizens exercise their sovereign autonomy. This text addresses from various approaches how the nature of the city is accommodated throughout history a l the essence of its destiny: ser the genuine space of the power of the citizens. 280 p.: fot., B/w, 23.5x16 cm., paperback