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The Social Production of Urban Space: 2nd Edition

By M. Gottdiener

Book information

Year
1994
ISBN
0292727720, 9780292727724
LCC
HT334.U5 G66 1994
Open Library ID
OL1428233M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
8 MB (8847314 bytes)
Edition
2 Sub
Pages
340\172
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Since its first publication in 1985, The Social Production of Urban Space has become a landmark work in urban studies. In this second edition, M. Gottdiener assesses important new theoretical models of urban space--and their shortcomings--including the global perspective, the flexible accumulation school, postmodernism, the new international division of labor, and the "growth machine" perspective. Going beyond the limitations of these and older theories, Gottdiener proposes a model of urban growth that accounts for the deconcentration away from the central city that began in the United States in the 1920s and continues today. Sociologists, political scientists, economists, geographers, and urban planners will find his interdisciplinary approach to urban science invaluable, as it is currently the most comprehensive treatment of European and American work in these related fields.

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