路易斯·沃斯以对城市问题的深邃思考与独特发现闻名于世。该文重点考察了他对城市概念的社会学建构。在沃斯看来,定义城市固然离不开人口规模、人口密度等显性指标,但其根本特质则取决于城市生活方式。本着这样的城市观,他立足人口规模、居民密度以及居民和群体生活的异质性,从社会学角度对都市生活理论给予了系统建构,掀开了城市理论研究的崭新篇章。 Louis Voss is known for his deep thinking and unique discoveries of urban issues. This article examines his sociological construction of the urban concept. For Voss, the definition of a city is inseparable from the explicit measures of population size and population density, but its fundamental characteristics depend on the urban life style. In such a view of the city, based on the population size, the density of residents and the heterogeneity of residents and group life, he systematically constructed the urban life theory from the perspective of sociology and opened a new chapter in the study of urban theory.