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Subject(s)

• Sociology, Urban [Browse]
• Human geography [Browse]

Author

• Pinch, Steven [Browse]

Summary note

The 6th edition of this highly respected text builds upon the successful structure, engaging writing style and clear presentation of previous editions. Examining urban social geography from a theoretical and historical perspective, it also explores how it has developed into the modern day. Taking account of recent critical work, whilst simultaneously presenting well established approaches to the subject, it ensures students are well-informed about all the issues. The result is a topical book that is clear and accessible for students.

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 18, 2016).

Language note

English

Contents

• Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; A guide to using this book; Acknowledgements; 1 Social geography and the sociospatial dialectic; Key questions addressed in this chapter; 1.1 Different approaches within human geography; The quantitative approach; The behavioural approach; The structuralist approach; Poststructuralist approaches; The study of urban social geography; 1.2 The sociospatial dialectic; 1.3 The macro-geographical context; A changing context for urban social geography; Economic change and urban restructuring; The imprint of demographic change
• The city and cultural changePolitical change and the sociospatial dialectic; Chapter summary; Key concepts and terms; Suggested reading; International journals; 2 The changing economic context of city life; Key questions addressed in this chapter; 2.1 The precapitalist, preindustrial city; 2.2 The growth of the industrial city; Early models of the spatial structure of industrial cities; Marx and the industrial city; Fordism and the industrial city; Keynesianism and the ''long boom'' of Fordism; 2.3 The contemporary city; Neo-Fordism; Urban change under neo-Fordism
• Postindustrial society under neo-FordismGlobalization; Knowledge economies and the informational city; 2.4 Conclusions; Chapter summary; Key concepts and terms; Suggested reading; 3 The cultures of cities; Key questions addressed in this chapter; 3.1 What is culture?; The materiality of cultures; Shared meanings; Diversity and difference; Identities; 3.2 Post colonial theory and the city; Hybridity; The social construction of culture; 3.3 Space, power and culture; Foucault and the carceral city; The social construction of space; Space and identity; 3.4 Postmodernism; Postmodernism in the city
• Romantic capitalism: the aestheticization of consumption3.5 Conclusions; Chapter summary; Key concepts and terms; Suggested reading; 4 Patterns of sociospatial differentiation; Key questions addressed in this chapter; 4.1 Urban morphology and the physical structure of cities; House types, building lots and street layouts; Morphogenesis; Environmental quality; 4.2 Difference and inequality: socio-economic and sociocultural patterns; Studies of factorial ecology; Patterns of social well-being; Intra-urban variations in the quality of urban life; The geography of deprivation and disadvantage
• Chapter summaryKey concepts and terms; Suggested reading; 5 Spatial and institutional frameworks: citizens, the state and civil society; Key questions addressed in this chapter; 5.1 The interdependence of public institutions and private life; Citizenship, patriarchy and racism; The law and civil society; The changing nature of urban governance; Spaces of neoliberalization; Green politics; 5.2 De jure urban apaces; Metropolitan fragmentation and its spatial consequences; Fiscal imbalance and sociospatial inequality; Fiscal mercantilism; 5.3 The democratic base and its spatial framework
• The spatial organization of elections

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Other format(s)

Also available in print format.

ISBN

• 0-367-09309-X
• 1-315-84723-X
• 1-317-90326-9
• 1-282-52998-6
• 9786612529986
• 1-4058-7419-8

OCLC

• 890981620
• 667093967
• 1028194783
• 1058357824

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