The Social Production of Urban Space

From reviews of the first edition:

This is perhaps the best theoretically oriented book by a United States urban sociologist since the work of Firey, Hawley, and Sjoberg in the 1940s and 1950s.... Gottdiener is on the cutting edge of urban theoretical work today. --Joe R. Feagin, Contemporary Sociology

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.

Author: M. Gottdiener
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 08/01/1994
Pages: 340
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 8.93h x 5.82w x 0.99d
ISBN: 9780292727724

About the Author
M. Gottdiener is a professor of sociology and urban studies at the University of California, Riverside, and author of several trend-setting works on urban development, including the recent Urban Life in Transition and the textbook The New Urban Sociology