Cities, Change, and Conflict: A Political Economy of Urban Life

While the text does have a targeted core audience of interest, it could potentially be useful to the new and expanding group of social science researchers who are involved in socio-spatial analyses and how the physical, temporal, and sociological dimensions of life are interconnected. Paradoxically, the book responds to that rather reductionist and deterministic framework by discarding most of the grounded theoretical insights of qualitative sociology, ending up with a political economy that is more political science and economics than sociology.