Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Author Biography -- PART 1. GEOGRAPHICAL SPACE PRODUCTION: SYSTEMS AND LAWS -- Part 1. Introduction -- Chapter 1. Geography: the Hard Core of a Social Science -- 1.1. The geographical question -- 1.2. Geographical space is produced -- 1.3. The reasons for the production of space -- 1.4. The organization of space -- 1.5. The logical field and the idea of a system in the production of space -- 1.6. The environment and the memories of the system -- 1.7. Geographical figures -- 1.8. Scientific practice -- 1.9. Conclusion -- Chapter 2. The Geon and Energy of the System -- 2.1. Populations and working forces -- 2.2. Resources to actualize -- 2.3. Information as a source of negentropy -- 2.4. Production means and organization of space -- 2.5. The place of the capital and its distribution -- 2.6. The cybernetics of the system -- 2.7. Back to A -- Chapter 3. Geographical Fields as the Environment of Places -- 3.1. Cardinal fields -- 3.2. Planetary fields -- 3.3. Cultural fields -- 3.4. The effects of exposure and attraction -- 3.5. Fields and geographical distributions -- Chapter 4. Laws of Geographical Space Production -- 4.1. Geographic logic and the law of profit -- 4.2. Propositions of laws -- 4.3. Environment in systems -- Chapter 5. Sense of Distance -- 5.1. Revelation of the distance -- 5.2. Distance measure -- 5.3. Ruptures of the distance -- 5.4. The represented distance: isolation and entrenchment -- 5.5. The distance and difference -- 5.6. End of distance? -- PART 2. BROKEN SPACE -- Part 2. Introduction -- Chapter 6. Discontinuities and Thresholds -- 6.1. Discontinuity theory (1965) -- 6.2. Discontinuities and catastrophism -- 6.2.1. Discontinuities and climate change -- 6.3. The region and discontinuity -- 6.4. Back to the discontinuity (1997).

6.5. Three examples of discontinuities in the geomorphological processes -- 6.5.1. The recession of Pyrenean glaciers -- 6.5.2. The valleys of the Terrefort -- 6.5.3. The erosion of soils in the Terrefort Toulousain -- Chapter 7. Territory Retrenchments -- 7.1. The pure and the wall -- 7.2. Retrenchments at the center -- 7.3. Separated peripheries -- 7.4. Folds and double folds -- 7.5. From retrenchment to res publica -- Chapter 8. Antiworld and Alienation -- 8.1. Alienation -- 8.2. Antiworld -- Chapter 9. Free Zones in the International Division of Labor -- 9.1. The territories of the antiworld -- 9.2. The complexity of the concept of international division of labor -- 9.3. The free zones: simplicity of speech, complexity of the roles -- 9.4. The golden belt -- 9.5. Territories without frankness, buccaneering territories -- Chapter 10. Geography of the Gulag Archipelago -- 10.1. The sources of this survey -- 10.2. Geographical history -- 10.2.1. Diffusion of the system and development of the Archipelago -- 10.2.2. Settlement and migration -- 10.2.3. Large-scale works and virgin lands -- 10.3. The organization of the archipelago -- 10.3.1. The population and its distribution -- 10.3.2. Spatial organization -- 10.3.3. The dual structure -- 10.4. The modes of production -- 10.4.1. Branches of activity and large regions -- 10.4.2. Products of the Gulag -- 10.4.3. Women's and children's work -- 10.4.4. Society and culture: social education -- 10.5. Conclusion -- 10.6. Appendix -- Chapter 11. Geography of Migrations or the Antiworld in Spate -- 11.1. Waves and currents of emigration -- 11.2. Wanderings of insecurity, fracture of Mediterraneans -- 11.3. Migrations systems: nomadism or wandering -- 11.4. Conclusion -- PART 3. MODELS AND CHOREMATICS -- Part 3. Introduction -- Chapter 12. Building Models for Spatial Analysis.

12.1. From spatial organization to models -- 12.1.1. The concept of spatial organization -- 12.1.2. Spatial models -- 12.1.3. A model of models -- 12.2. Choremes -- 12.2.1. Territorial controls -- 12.2.2. Tropisms -- 12.2.3. Spatial dynamics -- 12.3. The syntax of choremes or the linguistics of geography -- 12.3.1. Signs -- 12.3.2. Grammatical rules -- 12.3.3. Pro-positions -- 12.3.4. Social relativity -- 12.3.5. Conclusion: this and all other woods -- Chapter 13. Model Maps and Choremes -- 13.1. Models and choremes -- 13.2. The rules of art -- 13.3. The procedure -- 13.4. "In Poland, i.e. nowhere" (A. Jarry) -- 13.5. The language of maps -- 13.6. Bibliography and References -- Chapter 14. Models in Geography?A Sense to Research -- 14.1. What is a model? -- 14.2. Refutations -- 14.3. From theoretical practice to necessary hypotheses -- 14.4. Requirements of modeling -- 14.5. Conclusion -- Chapter 15. Mediterranean Models -- 15.1. The lake -- 15.2. The focus -- 15.3. The straight -- 15.4. The isthmus -- 15.5. The crescents -- 15.6. The barrier -- 15.7. The chott -- Chapter 16. The Aquitaine Region as a Corner -- 16.1. The southwest corner of France -- 16.2. Openings to seize -- 16.3. Dissymmetries of nature -- 16.4. Two urban systems -- 16.5. Regions and resources -- Chapter 17. Structural Dynamic of the City of Tours (France) -- 17.1. Administrative center of a province on a Paris radius -- 17.2. The Val effect -- 17.3. The metropolization and the network star -- 17.4. Tours: social inequalities -- Chapter 18. Analysis and Representation of Spatial Organizations: A Few Models -- 18.1. Openings -- 18.2. Color images -- 18.3. Other illustrations -- PART 4. SCALES OF GLOBALIZATION AND MOVING EUROPE -- Part 4. Introduction -- Chapter 19. Ways, Forms, and Figures of Globalization -- 19.1. Economic globalization -- 19.2. The global village.

19.3. Global ecology -- 19.4. How globalization changes the world -- 19.5. Re-differentiations and polycentrism -- 19.6. Contradictions and permanencies -- 19.7. Representations -- Chapter 20. Aspects of Globalization: the Diamond Revolution -- 20.1. The De Beers empire: a heritage of British imperialism -- 20.1.1. A very elaborate monopoly -- 20.1.2. A very unique product, an imperial desire -- 20.2. After globalization by monopoly, polycentric globalization -- 20.2.1. The discovery of the synthetic diamond -- 20.2.2. The new cutting and decision centers -- 20.2.3. The new mines -- 20.2.4. The intrusion of mining societies -- 20.2.5. The transformation of South Africa -- 20.2.6. The African dramas -- 20.2.7. The smell of blood and the search for purity -- 20.3. Rupture and uncertainties at the turn of the millennium -- 20.3.1. A new De Beers -- 20.3.2. Diversified globalization -- Chapter 21. European Fields and Mainlines -- 21.1. The peninsula of the old continent -- 21.2. The European backbone -- 21.3. The Ring -- 21.4. The European trellis -- 21.5. Centralities, barriers and new found solidarities -- 21.6. Conclusions -- 21.7. Appendix: Blue Banana -- Chapter 22. Transnational Urban Systems in Europe: Towards a New Modernity -- 22.1. Europe as a milieu -- 22.2. Can transnational city systems help Europe? -- 22.3. Conclusions -- Chapter 23. Russia in Revolutions -- PART 5. GEOGRAPHY INTO THE CITY PROSPECTS -- Part. 5. Introduction -- Chapter 24. Regaining Reason -- 24.1. El sueño de la razón -- 24.2. Unsustainable city -- 24.3. Territories in competition -- 24.4. Si les signes vous faschent -- 24.5. The marshland of Entelechies -- 24.6. Serio ludere -- Chapter 25. What is Geography? -- 25.1. The field of geography -- 25.2. Geography as a science -- 25.3. Geographies -- 25.4. Geography as an established fact -- 25.5. Applied geography.

Chapter 26. Geography in the Public Place -- 26.1. As an increased desire for geography -- 26.2. Five equations for fractions of society -- 26.3. Geography as Janus: two sides of the profession -- 26.4. Currents and patterns, or navigating without sinking -- 26.5. For socially useful works -- 26.6. Conclusion -- Chapter 27. Geography and Human Rights -- 27.1. The difference -- 27.2. Resorting to nature -- 27.3. The revealing space -- 27.4. Conclusion -- Chapter 28. Dimensions of Sustainable Development -- 28.1. The scale of sustainable development is global -- 28.2. Worldwide contradictions of sustainable development -- 28.3. Local scale: untenable "sustainable city" -- 28.4. The intermediate scales -- 28.5. Conclusions -- Conclusion. Along the Way -- Index.