Urban social geography : an introduction /

Main Author: Knox, Paul L.
Other Authors: Pinch, Steven
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Harlow, UK: Prentice Hall, 2006
Edition:5η έκδ.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • A guide to using the book
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Social geography and the sociospatial dialectic
  • 2. The changing economic context to city life
  • 3. The cultures of cities
  • 4. Patterns of sociospatial differentiation
  • 5. Spatial and institutional frameworks: citizens, the state and civil society
  • 6. Structures of building provision and the social production of the urban environment
  • 7. The social dimensions of modern urbanism
  • 8. Segragation and congregation
  • 9. Neighbourhood, community and the social construction of place
  • 10. Environment and behaviour in urban settings
  • 11. Bodies, sexuality and the city
  • 12. Residential mobility and neighbourhood change
  • 13. Urban change and conflict
  • 14. Whither urban social geography?: recent developments
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Index