Edward Soja

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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.

Contents 1 Publications 2 See also 3 Further reading 4 External links

[edit] 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.
• "Writing the city spatially", City, November, 2003.

[edit] See also

• Synekism

[edit] Further reading

• Bell, Thomas L.; Muller, Peter O. (March 2003). "Book Review". Annals of the Association of American Geographers 93 (1): 248–250. ISSN 0004-5608.  (A review of Soja's Postmetropolis: Critical Studies of Cities and Regions, ISBN 1-57718-001-1.)

[edit] External links

• Edward Soja, webpage at UCLA