Urban Social Geography : (Record no. 40804)
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| International Standard Book Number | 9781317903260 |
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| Classification number | HT151 .K57 2014 |
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| Classification number | 307.76 |
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| Personal name | Knox, Paul. |
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| Title | Urban Social Geography : |
| Remainder of title | An Introduction. |
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| Edition statement | 6th ed. |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Oxford : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Taylor & Francis Group, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2009. |
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| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | ©2010. |
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| Extent | 1 online resource (392 pages) |
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| Formatted contents note | 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 change -- Political 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-Fordism -- Globalization -- 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. |
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| Formatted contents note | Postmodernism in the city -- Romantic capitalism: the aestheticization of consumption -- 3.5 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 summary -- Key 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 -- Malapportionment and gerrymandering -- The spatiality of key actors in urban governance: elected officials and city bureaucrats -- Bureaucracy and sociospatial (re)production -- The parapolitical structure -- Business -- Labour -- Citizen organizations and special interest groups -- Homeowners' associations: private governments -- Urban social movements -- 5.4 Community power structures and the role of the local state -- Regime theory -- Structuralist interpretations of the political economy of contemporary cities. |
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| Formatted contents note | The local state and the sociospatial dialectic -- Regulation theory and urban governance -- Redefining citizenship -- 5.5 The question of social justice in the city -- Chapter summary -- Key concepts and terms -- Suggested reading -- 6 Structures of building provision and the social production of the urban environment -- Key questions addressed in this chapter -- 6.1 Housing submarkets -- The growth of home ownership -- The decline of private renting -- The effects of rent controls -- The spatial effects of disinvestment -- The development of public housing -- Public housing in the United Kingdom -- Sociospatial differentiation within the public sector -- The voluntary sector: the 'third arm' of housing provision -- 6.2 Key actors in the social production of the built environment -- Landowners and morphogenesis -- Builders, developers and the search for profit -- Discrimination by design: architects and planners -- Women's spaces -- Women's places -- Mortgage financiers: social and spatial bias as good business practice -- Bias against people -- Bias against property -- Real estate agents: manipulating and reinforcing neighbourhood patterns -- Manipulating social geographies -- blockbusting and gentrification -- Public housing managers: sorting and grading -- Problem families and dump estates -- Chapter summary -- Key concepts and terms -- Suggested reading -- 7 The social dimensions of modern urbanism -- Key questions addressed in this chapter -- 7.1 Urban life in Western culture -- 7.2 Urbanism and social theory -- The Chicago School -- Urbanism as a way of life -- The public and private worlds of city life -- The self: identity and experience in private and public worlds -- 7.3 Social interaction and social networks in urban settings -- Social network analysis -- Urban ecology as shaper and outcome of social interaction -- The spatial model. |
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| Formatted contents note | Criticisms of the ecological approach -- Social interaction in urban environments -- Social distance and physical distance -- Chapter summary -- Key concepts and terms -- Suggested reading -- 8 Segregation and congregation -- Key questions addressed in this chapter -- 8.1 Social closure, racism and discrimination -- 8.2 The spatial segregation of minority groups -- Issues of definition and measurement -- External factors: discrimination and structural effects -- Congregation: internal group cohesiveness -- Clustering together for defence -- Clustering for mutual support -- Clustering for cultural preservation -- Spaces of resistance: clustering to facilitate 'attacks' -- Colonies, enclaves and ghettos -- Illustrative example 1: structural constraints and cultural preservation in the United Kingdom -- Illustrative example 2: migrant workers in continental European cities -- Chapter summary -- Key concepts and terms -- Suggested reading -- 9 Neighbourhood, community and the social construction of place -- Key questions addressed in this chapter -- 9.1 Neighbourhood and community -- Urban villages: community saved? -- The fragility of communality -- Suburban neighbourhoods: community transformed? -- Splintering urbanism and the diversity of suburbia -- Status panic and crisis communality -- Communities and neighbourhoods: definitions and classifications -- 9.2 The social construction of urban places -- Urban lifeworlds, time-space routinization and intersubjectivity -- Structuration and the 'becoming' of place -- Constructing place through spatial practices -- Place, consumption and cultural politics -- Habitus -- 9.3 The social meanings of the built environment -- The appropriation of space and place: symbolism and coded meanings -- Architecture, aesthetics and the sociospatial dialectic -- Commodification -- Architecture and the circulation of capital. |
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| Formatted contents note | Chapter summary -- Key concepts and terms -- Suggested reading -- 10 Environment and behaviour in urban settings -- Key questions addressed in this chapter -- 10.1 Theories about deviant behaviour -- Determinist theory -- Crowding theory -- Design determinism -- Alienation -- Compositional theory -- Subcultural theory -- Structuralist theory -- Multi-factor explanations: the example of crime and delinquency -- Data problems -- The geography of urban crime -- 10.2 Cognition and perception -- Designative aspects of urban imagery -- Cognitive distance -- Appraisive aspects of urban imagery -- The cognitive dimensions of the urban environment -- Images of the home area -- Chapter summary -- Key concepts and terms -- Suggested reading -- 11 Bodies, sexuality and the city -- Key questions addressed in this chapter -- 11.1 Gender, heteropatriarchy and the city -- Gender roles in the sociospatial dialectic -- 11.2 Sexuality and the city -- Prostitution and the city -- Urbanization and prostitution -- Sex workers in contemporary cities -- Homosexuality and the city -- The social construction of sexuality -- Homosexual urban ecology -- Gay spaces -- Lesbian spaces -- Queer politics: lipstick lesbians and gay skinheads -- 11.3 Disability and the city -- The social construction of disability -- Disability in urban settings -- Chapter summary -- Key concepts and terms -- Suggested reading -- 12 Residential mobility and neighbourhood change -- Key questions addressed in this chapter -- 12.1 Patterns of household mobility -- Movers and stayers -- Patterns of in-migration -- Intra-urban moves -- Distance and direction -- Household movement and urban ecology -- The determinants of residential mobility -- Reasons for moving -- Space needs and life-course changes -- The decision to move -- The search for a new residence -- Specifying the desiderata of a new home. |
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| Summary, etc. | 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. |
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| Source of description note | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. |
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| Local note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Sociology, Urban. |
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| Genre/form data or focus term | Electronic books. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Pinch, Steven. |
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| Relationship information | Print version: |
| Main entry heading | Knox, Paul |
| Title | Urban Social Geography |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2009 |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780273717638 |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | ProQuest (Firm) |
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