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Applied Urban Analysis: A critique and synthesis - Softcover

Cullen, Ian

 
9780415864749: Applied Urban Analysis: A critique and synthesis
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0415864747 ISBN 13: 9780415864749
Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

Much of the theoretical literature in planning and human geography at present is materialist in perspective. This offers a powerful critique but locates the dynamics of urban systems too specifically in just one basic social relationship. It fails to provide an intellectual base broad enough for constructive, detailed urban analysis, partly because it fails to do justice to the reflective awareness of the individual. The alternative humanist position redresses the balance in favour of the individual but again cannot serve the practical requirements of urban analysis since it so often ignores social or contextual analysis.

Ian Cullen synthesizes these tow apparently inconsistent theoretical positions and to render the increasingly obscure debate between them accessible.

This book was first published in 1984.

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Cullen, Ian

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415864747
ISBN 13 
9780415864749
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
226