Urban Social Geography : An Introduction / / by Paul Knox and Steven Pinch |
Autore | Knox Paul |
Edizione | [Sixth edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (392 p.) |
Disciplina | 307.76 |
Soggetto topico |
Sociology, Urban
Human geography Cites and towns |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-367-09309-X
1-315-84723-X 1-317-90326-9 1-282-52998-6 9786612529986 1-4058-7419-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456283303321 |
Knox Paul
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Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, , [2014] | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Urban Social Geography : An Introduction / / by Paul Knox and Steven Pinch |
Autore | Knox Paul |
Edizione | [Sixth edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (392 p.) |
Disciplina | 307.76 |
Soggetto topico |
Sociology, Urban
Human geography |
ISBN |
0-367-09309-X
1-315-84723-X 1-317-90326-9 1-282-52998-6 9786612529986 1-4058-7419-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781157803321 |
Knox Paul
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Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, , [2014] | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Urban Social Geography : An Introduction / / by Paul Knox and Steven Pinch |
Autore | Knox Paul |
Edizione | [Sixth edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (392 p.) |
Disciplina | 307.76 |
Soggetto topico |
Sociology, Urban
Human geography |
ISBN |
0-367-09309-X
1-315-84723-X 1-317-90326-9 1-282-52998-6 9786612529986 1-4058-7419-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816760803321 |
Knox Paul
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Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, , [2014] | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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