Cai Shaoyan, Tao Wei

Keywords： Body; Embodiment; Urban Studies; Body Geography

Abstract：

Body can be considered as a sign representing the development of urban civilization, and they bound up with each other for hundreds of years. From Ancient Greece and Rome to modern city, about two thousand years, the body goes through the period of freedom- sleeping-suppressed-awakeneddestroyed-understanding. Drawing on an overview of 275 papers published from 1994-2016 in 26 international authoritative journals, this paper believes the body-city study can be generalized into two levels. First, studying the city from the perspective of bodies, which includes urban public space experience, urban public service facilities, urban transportation, architectural design and urban layout; second, studying the body from the perspective of cities, which includes moving body, healthy body, fat body and the body of the special groups. This paper argues that the body becomes an important perspective and a way to study and solve urban problems.

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