Thirdspace

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.

• List of Illustrations. Acknowledgements.Introduction/Itinerary/Overture.Part I: Discovering Thirdspace: .1. The Extraordinary Voyages of Henri Lefebvre.2. The Trialectics of Spatiality.3. Exploring the Spaces that Difference Makes: Notes on the Margins.4. Increasing the Openness of Thirdspace.5. Heterotopologies: Foucault and the Geohistory of Otherness.6. Re-Presenting the Spatial Critique of Historicism.Part II: Inside and Outside Los Angeles: .7. Remembrances: A Heterotopology of the Citadel-LA.8. Inside Exopolis: Everyday Life in the Postmodern World.9. The Stimulus of a Little Confusion: A Contemporary Comparison of Amsterdam and Los Angeles.Select Bibliography.Name Index.Subject Index.

"There is much that is innovative and thought provoking in the book ..." Rob Atkinson, Capital and Class "Thirdspace is Soja's most demanding theoretical work to date. It is a book which attempts to open up new ways of thinking about and responding to the binaries which continue to dominate the way we make practical and theoretical sense of the world. In concluding this short review of a very complex text I can only echo a comment Derek Gregory (1990:41) made when reviewing Soja's Postmodern Goegraphies: 'its intellectually sparkle is the product of a rare and generous critical intelligence'." Richard Bedford, University of Waikato "In all, a compilation of empirical and intellectual journeys." The Geographical Journal " Such as serious and important undertaking by such a prodigious intellect compels an in-depth and extended transdisciplinary and critical dialogue. Its destiny, I suspect, is to be the centre of a heated and fruitful debate. ed Soja has changed how we think about space." Robert Beauregard, Milano graduate School of Management "Soja offers a powerful new way of thinking that simultaneously takes apart and reorganizes the basic premise from which dualistic thinking derives power." Geographical Review