Abstract:

Beginning from classical sociology there have been two axes of urban definition: as spatial and as a social process. When we define city as a social and a spatial unit gathering contradictions, conflicts and compromises politically, historically and socially, we automatically make it the subject of social sciences. On the other hand, the same definition causes some difficulties when deciding whether cities have autonomous borders from macro-social facts and processes. When we begin to analyse urban we necessarily begin to think about some certain social circumstances and relations. In this article it is aimed to sum up certain conceptual frameworks on defining the city by  selecting some classical and critical sociologists of urban sociology. 

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