Product Description: At once informative and entertaining, inspiring and challenging, My Los Angeles provides a deep understanding of urban development and change over the past forty years in Los Angeles and other city regions of the world. Once the least dense American metropolis, Los Angeles is now the country’s densest urbanized area and one of the most culturally heterogeneous cities in the world...read more

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Product Description: This completes Ed Soja's trilogy on urban studies, which began with Postmodern Geographies and continued with Thirdspace. It is the first comprehensive text in the growing field of critical urban studies to deal with the dramatically restructured megacities that have emerged world-wide over the last half of the twentieth-century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Contemporary critical studies have recently experienced asignificant spatial turn. In what may eventually be seen as one ofthe most important intellectual and political developments in thelate twentieth century, scholars have begun to interpret space andthe embracing spatiality of human life with the same criticalinsight and emphasis that has traditionally been given to time andhistory on the one hand, and social relations and society on theother...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Considers various aspects of Kenyan life including earning a living, family, education, religion, government, traditionalism, and modern influences.