The Social Production of Urban Space

by Mark Gottdiener

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.

Genres: Nonfiction, Urbanism, Urban Studies

340 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1985

About the author

Mark Gottdiener is a professor of sociology at University at Buffalo, specializing in urban sociology. The first person in the Anglophone world to write an extended analysis of Henri Lefebvre, including comparing his work to traditional urban geography and sociology as well as the Marxist Manuel Castells.

Reviews

[Matt · Rating 5 out of 5]

what i learned:

- there are a lot of types of marxism
- capitalism is important in the creation of space
- henri lefevbre is awesome
- sociology can be a philosophy
- cities can be revolutionary
- praxis is the key to real marxism

[Franco Borja]

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