THE “URBAN GEOGRAPHY” AS DISCIPLINE: A POSSIBLE APPROACH

Abstract

This work presents a possibility of theoretical-methodological construction for the development of the Urban Geography course, ministered at the Geography Department in FFLCH, under the graduation course. The contents are supported by the constitution movement of a critical geography that places the notion of production of space in the center of the debate about the urban and the urban society, as necessary moments of the contemporary world comprehension, starting form its socio-spatial dimension. We assume that every act of human life realization has a spatiotemporal parameter and reality, which means that the activities are developed by a determined period of time in a specific place that features and gives content to human action. This journal special issue makes us reflect on the way we have been “thinking and making Geography” over time in this Department, whether through research, either through education and formation of students as unfolding and overcoming the Geography that we inherited.