urban geography
concepts
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]
Los Angeles school