I've decided to make the blog my central point of research again. I'll use a rough and ready approach in which the contents can contribute towards a more formal peice of writing/reflection.
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'Cities have been undergoing many complex processes of postmodernization which ahve affected what Soja sees as 'urbanized' ways of living and thinking. amoung the ( sometimes contradictory) restructurings noted by Soja are:
Drastic changes in industry, The growth of global cities, Increased Surveillance.
Teach yourself PM Glenn Ward. pp185
"Place is space that is occupied. The identity of self, group and nation is bound up with ideas and representations of particular space(s0...The more detailed the definition of identity, the more they are associated with particular places. the difference between us and them is often based on location. what makes it there is them and what makes it here is us.'
Short, JR (2001) Global Dimensions: space, Place and the Contemporary World, p.16, London: Reaktion Books.
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