Between The Social And The Spatial

Author : Katrien De Boyser,Jürgen Friedrichs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317174912

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Between the Social and the Spatial by Katrien De Boyser,Jürgen Friedrichs Pdf

Since the beginning of the 1990s, the gradual widening of scientific and policy debates on poverty from a narrow focus on income poverty to a more inclusive concept of social exclusion, has made poverty research both more interesting and more complicated. This transition to a more multidimensional conceptualization of poverty forms the background and starting point of this book. Researchers studying the 'social' and 'spatial' dimensions of poverty have only started to challenge and explore the boundaries of each other's research perspectives and instruments. This book brings together these different bodies of literature on the intersection of spatial and social exclusion for the first time, by providing a state-of-the art review written by internationally-recognized experts who critically reflect on the theoretical status of their research on social exclusion, and on the implications this has for future research and policy-making agendas.

Author : Whitworth, Adam
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447337911

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Towards a Spatial Social Policy by Whitworth, Adam Pdf

Social policy and human geography are intimately intertwined yet frequently disconnected fields. Whilst social policies are always conceived, implemented and experienced in and through geography, the role of place in social policy scholarship and practice is frequently overlooked. Bringing together experts from both fields, this collection illuminates the myriad of ways that human geography offers rich insights conceptually, empirically and methodologically into the neglected spatialities of policy scholarship, practice and experience. By building the necessary bridges towards a spatial social policy, this book enables the enhanced design, performance and understanding of social policies once properly rooted in their multiple spatialities.

Author : Ryan D. Enos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108430716

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The Space between Us by Ryan D. Enos Pdf

The Space between Us brings the connection between geography, psychology, and politics to life. By going into the neighborhoods of real cities, Enos shows how our perceptions of racial, ethnic, and religious groups are intuitively shaped by where these groups live and interact daily. Through the lens of numerous examples across the globe and drawing on a compelling combination of research techniques including field and laboratory experiments, big data analysis, and small-scale interactions, this timely book provides a new understanding of how geography shapes politics and how members of groups think about each other. Enos' analysis is punctuated with personal accounts from the field. His rigorous research unfolds in accessible writing that will appeal to specialists and non-specialists alike, illuminating the profound effects of social geography on how we relate to, think about, and politically interact across groups in the fabric of our daily lives.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 1315569140

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Author : Mr Jürgen Friedrichs,Ms Caroline Dewilde,Ms Danielle Dierckx,Ms Katrien De Boyser
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781409492139

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Between the Social and the Spatial by Mr Jürgen Friedrichs,Ms Caroline Dewilde,Ms Danielle Dierckx,Ms Katrien De Boyser Pdf

Since the beginning of the 1990s, the gradual widening of scientific and policy debates on poverty from a narrow focus on income poverty to a more inclusive concept of social exclusion, has made poverty research both more interesting and more complicated. This transition to a more multidimensional conceptualization of poverty forms the background and starting point of this book. Researchers studying the 'social' and 'spatial' dimensions of poverty have only started to challenge and explore the boundaries of each other's research perspectives and instruments. This book brings together these different bodies of literature on the intersection of spatial and social exclusion for the first time, by providing a state-of-the art review written by internationally-recognized experts who critically reflect on the theoretical status of their research on social exclusion, and on the implications this has for future research and policy-making agendas.

Author : Laura Vaughan
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787353060

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Mapping Society by Laura Vaughan Pdf

From a rare map of yellow fever in eighteenth-century New York, to Charles Booth’s famous maps of poverty in nineteenth-century London, an Italian racial zoning map of early twentieth-century Asmara, to a map of wealth disparities in the banlieues of twenty-first-century Paris, Mapping Society traces the evolution of social cartography over the past two centuries. In this richly illustrated book, Laura Vaughan examines maps of ethnic or religious difference, poverty, and health inequalities, demonstrating how they not only serve as historical records of social enquiry, but also constitute inscriptions of social patterns that have been etched deeply on the surface of cities. The book covers themes such as the use of visual rhetoric to change public opinion, the evolution of sociology as an academic practice, changing attitudes to physical disorder, and the complexity of segregation as an urban phenomenon. While the focus is on historical maps, the narrative carries the discussion of the spatial dimensions of social cartography forward to the present day, showing how disciplines such as public health, crime science, and urban planning, chart spatial data in their current practice. Containing examples of space syntax analysis alongside full colour maps and photographs, this volume will appeal to all those interested in the long-term forces that shape how people live in cities.

Author : Lloyd, Christopher D.,Shuttleworth, Ian G.,Wong, David W.
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447301356

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Social-spatial segregation by Lloyd, Christopher D.,Shuttleworth, Ian G.,Wong, David W. Pdf

This edited volume brings together leading researchers from the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe to look at the processes leading to segregation and its implications. With a methodological focus, the book explores new methods and data sources that can offer fresh perspectives on segregation in different contexts. It considers how the spatial patterning of segregation might be best understood and measured, outlines some of the mechanisms that drive it, and discusses its possible social outcomes. Ultimately, it demonstrates that measurements and concepts of segregation must keep pace with a changing world. This volume will be essential reading for academics and practitioners in human geography, sociology, planning and public policy.

Author : Martina Löw
Publisher : Springer
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349695683

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The Sociology of Space by Martina Löw Pdf

In this book, the author develops a relational concept of space that encompasses social structure, the material world of objects and bodies, and the symbolic dimension of the social world. Löw’s guiding principle is the assumption that space emerges in the interplay between objects, structures and actions. Based on a critical discussion of classic theories of space, Löw develops a new dynamic theory of space that accounts for the relational context in which space is constituted. This innovative view on the interdependency of material, social, and symbolic dimensions of space also permits a new perspective on architecture and urban development.

Author : Ronny Vallejos,Felipe Osorio,Moreno Bevilacqua
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783030566814

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Spatial Relationships Between Two Georeferenced Variables by Ronny Vallejos,Felipe Osorio,Moreno Bevilacqua Pdf

This book offers essential, systematic information on the assessment of the spatial association between two processes from a statistical standpoint. Divided into eight chapters, the book begins with preliminary concepts, mainly concerning spatial statistics. The following seven chapters focus on the methodologies needed to assess the correlation between two or more processes; from theory introduced 35 years ago, to techniques that have only recently been published. Furthermore, each chapter contains a section on R computations to explore how the methodology works with real data. References and a list of exercises are included at the end of each chapter. The assessment of the correlation between two spatial processes has been tackled from several different perspectives in a variety of applications fields. In particular, the problem of testing for the existence of spatial association between two georeferenced variables is relevant for posterior modeling and inference. One evident application in this context is the quantification of the spatial correlation between two images (processes defined on a rectangular grid in a two-dimensional space). From a statistical perspective, this problem can be handled via hypothesis testing, or by using extensions of the correlation coefficient. In an image-processing framework, these extensions can also be used to define similarity indices between images.

Author : Fran Tonkiss
Publisher : Polity
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780745628257

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Space, the City and Social Theory by Fran Tonkiss Pdf

Taking a thematic approach, this book covers the main aspects of modern urban life taught on undergraduate courses. The key approaches to the city within contemporary social theory are assessed. Tonkiss adopts an international perspective, with examples drawn from places such as New York, Paris and Sydney.

Author : Edward W. Soja
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452915289

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Seeking Spatial Justice by Edward W. Soja Pdf

In 1996, the Los Angeles Bus Riders Union, a grassroots advocacy organization, won a historic legal victory against the city’s Metropolitan Transit Authority. The resulting consent decree forced the MTA for a period of ten years to essentially reorient the mass transit system to better serve the city’s poorest residents. A stunning reversal of conventional governance and planning in urban America, which almost always favors wealthier residents, this decision is also, for renowned urban theorist Edward W. Soja, a concrete example of spatial justice in action. In Seeking Spatial Justice, Soja argues that justice has a geography and that the equitable distribution of resources, services, and access is a basic human right. Building on current concerns in critical geography and the new spatial consciousness, Soja interweaves theory and practice, offering new ways of understanding and changing the unjust geographies in which we live. After tracing the evolution of spatial justice and the closely related notion of the right to the city in the influential work of Henri Lefebvre, David Harvey, and others, he demonstrates how these ideas are now being applied through a series of case studies in Los Angeles, the city at the forefront of this movement. Soja focuses on such innovative labor–community coalitions as Justice for Janitors, the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, and the Right to the City Alliance; on struggles for rent control and environmental justice; and on the role that faculty and students in the UCLA Department of Urban Planning have played in both developing the theory of spatial justice and putting it into practice. Effectively locating spatial justice as a theoretical concept, a mode of empirical analysis, and a strategy for social and political action, this book makes a significant contribution to the contemporary debates about justice, space, and the city.

Author : Helen Liggett,David C. Perry
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1995-01-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015031863114

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Spatial Practices by Helen Liggett,David C. Perry Pdf

Spatial Practices makes a timely and significant contribution to the growing literature on social/spatial theory. In it the notion of spacial practice takes on a rich and layered meaning for some of America's leading scholars as they critically link the theoretical practices of the space of their disciplines to the practical social space of everyday political and economic urban life. Original essays provide compelling insights into the space of racial politics, the unavoidability of recognizing a radical planning practice, and the imagistic face of the contemporary "figured" city. The reader will find rich conceptual tools presented in discussions that grapple with issues raised by the production of reduced public space in common interest developments and the ubiquitous mall, the ideologies of economic restructuring, the rhetorical politics of urban revitalization, and the analytic potential of the photo/text. Students and scholars interested in how spatial theory has enriched and renewed urban theory will find Spatial Practices invaluable. It will be useful in a wide range of classes across disciplines including urban studies, urban planning, architecture, political science, sociology, geography, economics, and policy studies. "This collection explores the exciting analytical edge where investigations of urban political economy converge with cultural studies. In their exploration of theory and practice as they relate to the production of space, the authors cover a dazzling range of topics. Yet despite their varying preoccupations, the essays merge into a unified inquiry that reveals the functions and meanings of contemporary spatial forms. All those who are interested in the forces shaping urban and regional development, as well as in the impact of space on social relations, must read this book.

Author : Ferenc Gyuris
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319015088

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The Political Discourse of Spatial Disparities by Ferenc Gyuris Pdf

This work aims to provide unique insights into the multidisciplinary research on spatial disparities from an unconventional point of view. It breaks with the conventional narrative that tends to interpret this theoretical tradition as a series of factual contributions to a better understanding of the issue. Instead, related theories are investigated in their political, economic, and social contexts, and spatial disparity research is presented as a political discourse. It also reveals how the propagandistic problematization or de-problematization of geographical inequalities serves the substantiation of political goals, while taking advantage of the legitimate authority of science and the image of scientific objectivity. The book explains how the discourse has functioned from 19th century social physics over the Cold War period up to Marxist geographies of the current neoliberal age, and in what way and to what extent political considerations prevent related concepts producing ‘objective’ knowledge about the complex phenomenon of spatial inequalities.

Author : Reginald G. Golledge
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1572300507

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Spatial Behavior by Reginald G. Golledge Pdf

How do human beings negotiate the spaces in which they live, work, and play? How are firms and institutions, and their spatial behaviors, being affected by processes of economic and societal change? What decisions do they make about their natural and built environment, and how are these decisions acted out? Updating and expanding concepts of decision making and choice behavior on different geographic scales, this major revision of the authors' acclaimed Analytical Behavioral Geography presents theoretical foundations, extensive case studies, and empirical evidence of human behavior in a comprehensive range of physical, social, and economic settings. Generously illustrated with maps, diagrams, and tables, the volume also covers issues of gender, discusses traditionally excluded groups such as the physically and mentally challenged, and addresses the pressing needs of our growing elderly population.

Author : Marijn Nieuwenhuis,David Crouch, Emeritus Professor of Cultural Geography, University of Derby
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786601964

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The Question of Space by Marijn Nieuwenhuis,David Crouch, Emeritus Professor of Cultural Geography, University of Derby Pdf

This edited collection offers a much-needed interdisciplinary exploration of the longevity and impact of the spatial turn across disciplines. It is aimed at advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars interested in space and place in the humanities and social sciences.