Urban social geography : an introductory guide / by Paul Knox and Steven Pinch

Includes glossary, reference and index.

Social geography and the sociospatial dialectic -- The changing economic context of city life -- The cultures of cities -- Patterns of sociospatial differentiation -- Spatial and institutional frameworks : citizens, the state and civil society -- Structures of building provision and the social production of the urban environment -- The social dimensions of modern urbanism -- segregation and congregation -- Neighbourhood, community and the social construction of place -- Environment and behaviour in urban setting -- Bodies, sexuality and the city -- Residential mobility and neighbourhood change -- Urban change and conflict -- Whiter urban social geography? recent developments