Edward Soja

Edward Soja

Edward William Soja (b. 1941, in Bronx (New York City), U.S.) is a postmodern political geographer and urban planner on the faculty at UCLA, where he is Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning, and the London School of Economics. He has a Ph.D. from Syracuse University.

Publications

*"Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory." London: Verso Press, 1989.
*Scott, A.J and E.W. Soja, eds. "The City: Los Angeles and Urban Theory at the End of the Twentieth Century". Berkeley: University of California Press. 1996.
*"Thirdspace: Journeys to Los Angeles and Other Real-and-Imagined Places". Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 1996.
*"Postmetropolis: Critical Studies of Cities and Regions". Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2000.
* [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/ccit/2003/00000007/00000003/art00003 "Writing the city spatially"] , "City", November, 2003.

ee also

* Synekism

Further reading

*cite journal|quotes=|last=Bell|first=Thomas L.|authorlink=|coauthors=Muller, Peter O.|year=2003|month=March|title=Book Review|journal=Annals of the Association of American Geographers|volume=93|issue=1|pages=248–250|id=ISSN|0004-5608|url=|accessdate=2006-12-02 (A review of Soja's "Postmetropolis: Critical Studies of Cities and Regions", ISBN 1-57718-001-1.)

External links

* [http://www.spa.ucla.edu/dept.cfm?d=up&s=faculty&f=faculty1.cfm&id=251 Edward Soja] , webpage at UCLA


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