期刊名称：Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, European and Regional Studies
电子版ISSN：2068-7583
出版年度：2018
卷号：13
期号：1
页码：11-18
DOI：10.2478/auseur-2018-0002
语种：English
出版社：Walter de Gruyter GmbH
摘要：The critique of the city is an almost obligatory cliché of the 20thcentury cultural criticism. This paper offers a parallel critical analysis of the conceptions of American ecologist Lewis Mumford and Hungarian historian István Hajnal. They were contemporaries, and their approaches had been inspired by interwar cultural criticism. Mumford did not hate the city: it was, for him, the engine of history, a reservoir of cultural creativeness. The theory of Hajnal, from many aspects, runs parallel with Mumford’s – moreover, the Hungarian historian gives a detailed theory on the types of European city. What connects them is an ecological approach.
