Urban social geography - Prof Paul Knox

This new edition provides a critical introduction to the social and spatial patterns and processes of the western city. The text has been updated and also restructured to emphasize the sociospatial dialectic and the socio-cultural dimensions of urban life. This reflects shifts in urban geography, which have in turn responded to changes in the social geography of metropolitan areas.;A new introduction considers the changing context for urban social geography, in terms of: economic change and restructuring; the imprint of demographic change; political change; and sociospatial dialectic.;Knox provides a review of the social dimensions of life in the modern city, drawing critically on a wide range of ideas and approaches. These include human ecology, social networks, communities and neighbourhoods, residential mobility and the study of deviant behaviour.;Key new topics for this edtion include: the interdependence of pubic institutions and private life; social closure, racism and discrimination; the construction of place through social practices; women's spaces; the appropriation of space and place; and social production of the urban environment.