Structuring the Concepts of the Image of the City in the Space-Time Continuum

Abstract

Cities are spaces. Spaces exist in time, so from the very beginning they are chronotopes and this indicates the interdependence of spatial and temporal orders2. Space as a category itself presupposes a connection with the category of “time”3. Space is not only a natural, geographically defined quantity, it is empty from the very beginning and needs to be filled, but it is a cultural, media and social product that changes in the historical context1. The city is interdisciplinary due to its heterogeneity and its complex system of interconnected elements. Cities, as a concept in general, have a history of six thousand years4. And only a small part of this period, researchers are trying to either differentiate or combine all its elements and define them depending on the point of view of which science the researcher considers the city. “Attempts to describe, explain, create and manage the city have given rise to different ways of imagining