1st Edition
Cities and Services The geography of collective consumption
By Steven Pinch
Copyright 1985
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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Caught between the twin pressures of rising public expectations and falling resources, public services have become the subject of intense academic scrutiny and public debate. Much of this controversy has been fuelled by a growing realisation that where people live has an important influence upon their access to services. The so-called 'postcode lottery.'
The first part of this book considers... Read more
1. The geography of collective consumption
2. Jurisdictional partitioning and the 'outputs' approach
3. Externalities, locational efficiency and conflict
4. Neo-Weberian approaches
5. Neo-Marxist approaches
6. Beyond locational analysis and structuralism
Biography
Pinch, Steven
