Talk:Edward Soja

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[edit] I disagree

I very strongly disagree with the proposed deletion of this article. Soja is an important contemporary political geographer---a Google search brings back 25,000 hits---heavily involved in criticism of urban planning in the age of the "postmetropolis." Granted that this article does not say much of anything, and certainly not anything that is terribly useful, but it can and should be improved. Soja certainly rates a Wikipedia article. --Charles 18:27, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Articles are deleted according to WP:CSD (A7) based on the lack of assertion of significance of the subject in the article. I have deleted the article, but have no problem if someone wants to recreate it in a way that assess the importance of this person. See WP:BIO for more details. The text of the article before deletion was:
"Edward Soja is a postmodern political geographer on the faculty at UCLA and the London School of Economics."
The only contributor (beside the user who tag it for deletion) was User:Ryan Lanham. - Liberatore(T) 18:46, 16 May 2006 (UTC)


Just to point out, from my perspective as an undergraduate geographer, Soja is incredibly important in any and all aspects of contemporary Ubran Geography, indeed to the extent that we were forced to watch a video about him!

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Born in the Bronx and nurtured in its dense diversities, Edward Soja was a street geographer by the time he was ten and a doctoral student in Geography at Syracuse University just after turning twenty-one. For the next two decades, he specialized in the political geography of moderization and nation-building in Africa, holding visiting appointments at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. After seven years of teaching at Northwestern University, he joined the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning, UCLA, in 1972. He has twice been department chair in Urban Planning and, for nine years, was the Associate Dean. For the past fifteen years, he has been writing about the postmodernization of Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife Maureen and children, Christopher and Erika. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.208.135.20 (talk) 18:02, 23 April 2008 (UTC)