Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Organization of the Book -- Note -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Part I: New Models -- 1. Political Economy and Human Geography -- Introduction -- The Development of a Political-Economy Approach -- The 1970s and Early 1980s: Structural Marxism -- The Mid-1980s: The Structure-Agency Debate, Realism and Locality -- Responses -- The Late 1980s: Postmodernism and Purity -- Conclusions -- References -- 2. Mathematical Models In Human Geography: 20 Years On -- Whatever Happened to Mathematical Models? -- What Have Modellers Achieved? -- Modelling and Geographical Theory -- A Contemporary View of Applied Mathematical Modelling -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II: New Models of the City -- Introduction -- Urban Processes -- Cities In Action -- Contemporary Urban Change -- Cities Outside the Western World -- References -- 3. The City As Locus of Production -- Introduction -- Traditional Approaches -- Production, Social Relations, and Location -- The Supply Side: Land Rent and the Property Development Process -- Conclusion -- References -- 4. Reproduction, Class, and the Spatial Structure of the City -- The Capitalist 'Mode of Production' -- The Spatial Structure of the City and the Reproduction of Labour Power -- Urban Spatial Structure and the Mediation of Class Conflict -- Future Research Directions -- Notes -- References -- 5. Women In the City -- The Political Motivation-Retrospective: Women As Urban Activists and Feminism As Urban Analysis -- Initial Exploration: Discovering and Measuring Women In the City -- Theoretical Explorations: Women Against the Divided City -- Crossing the Boundaries: Women Restructuring the City and Some Suggestions for Future Research -- The Political Motivation-Prospects: Women As Urban Actors and Feminism As Urban Politics.

Notes -- References -- 6. Third World Cities -- Empirical Characteristics of Third World Cities -- The Common Conceptual Underpinning -- Third World Cities In Market Societies -- The Socialist City In the Third World -- Conclusions -- References -- Part III: New Models of Civil Society -- Introduction -- Integrative Shifts In the Study of Civil Society -- References -- 7. The Geography of Gender -- Introduction: A Brief History of Feminist Geography -- Analyses of Gender In Urban and Social Geography -- Analysis of Gender In Industrial and Regional Geography -- Future Directions -- References -- 8. Geography, Race, and Racism -- Race As Social Relation -- The Territorial Basis of Racial Oppression -- Racism and Resistance -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- References -- 9. Marxism, Culture, and the Duplicity of Landscape -- Marxism and Culture -- Marxism and Postmodernism -- Culture In Radical Geography -- Raymond Williams -- John Berger -- Landscape With Missiles -- Acknowledgement -- References -- 10. What Is Locality? -- Introduction: Locality-Fashion or Reality? -- Locality: Some Empirical Examples -- The Difference That Space Makes -- Local Processes-Derivative or Causal? -- Old Wine In a New Bottle? Spatial Differences and Social Theory -- Localities, Locales, or the Local -- Conclusions: Using Locality -- References -- Acknowledgements -- Part IV: New Models of Social Theory -- Introduction -- Modern Social Theory -- Key Issues In Social Theory -- Marxism and Social Theory -- Geography and Social Theory -- References -- 11. Peripheral Capitalism and the Regional Problematic -- Thematic Demarcation and Point of Departure -- Theory, Territory, and the Third World-Divergent Currents of Interpretation -- The Deployment of Spatial Concepts-A Political Question?.

The Peripheral State and the Regional Question: Towards a Clarification of the Issues -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 12. Sociology and Geography -- Introduction -- Classical Sociological Contributions -- 1920-70: Separate Development -- New Developments -- Conclusion -- References -- 13. Modern Geography, Western Marxism, and the Restructuring of Critical Social Theory -- Situating the Encounter of Modern Geography and Western Marxism -- Marxist Geography and the Restructuring of Social Theory -- Notes -- References -- 14. The Crisis of Modernity? Human Geography and Critical Social Theory -- Introduction -- Maps of an Intellectual Landscape -- Postmodernism, Polyphony, and Social Theory -- Pragmatism and Place -- Social Integration, System Integration, and the Spatiality of Social Life -- Crisis, Capitalism, and Modernity -- Prospect -- Notes -- References.