urban geography
type: Concept
narrower: Los Angeles school

concepts
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: Los Angeles school

Los Angeles school
definition: In the late 20th century, an unusually large and fecund group of loosely affiliated, Marxist-inspired urban and economic geographers began to form in Southern California, particularly at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and the University of Southern California. This group, including notables such as Michael Dear, Edward Soja, Allen Scott, Michael Storper, and Mike Davis, played a key role in shaping urban political economy and injecting space into debates about the changing structure of capitalism. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geography; Los Angeles School]
broader: urban geography
type: Concept