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This is a glance to the contemporary urbanism in the world. Nowadays city has experienced many evolutions and metamorphoses, which we try to briefly describe and explore in this article. Our approach to city and urbanism
is a little special, i.e. we try not to deploy the physical issues of it - as we do usually - but to recognize the roots and factors, and to state the realities we confront everyday. This interpretation of City can be considered as a period that
begins with a steady focus on Functionalism, and continues with the recent tendencies toward Sustainability and Globalisation. By entering in the time of post - industrialism, the essence of city has changed a lot. It’s been a major goal for the author to explore this essence through the literature and contemporary history of urbanism. For this purpose we do not clearly pronounce Modernism or Post- Modernism, as we believe that all these, one day melt into air1. As regularity and paradox are the characteristics of contemporary city, we’ll pay more attention to the society and economics
and continue our exploration not through, but beyond the city form and framework.