The Spatial Approach to the Urban Question: A Comment Journal Articles

abstract

• Two ways of defining the urban question are possible, the social and the spatial. The former has received considerable attention and has been widely discredited. The latter has rarely been defined with clarity and has been inadequately treated in recent reviews. The spatial approach rests upon a view of cities as places where proximity offers uniquely urban opportunities and problems. Such a definition is inadequate, not because space is unimportant but because urban and nonurban space do not differ in kind.

authors

• Harris, Richard S

status

• published 

publication date

• March 1984

has subject area

• 0502 Environmental Science and Management (FoR)
• 1205 Urban and Regional Planning (FoR)
• 1604 Human Geography (FoR)
• Geography (Science Metrix)

published in

• Environment & Planning. D, Society and Space  Journal

keywords

• Environmental Sciences & Ecology
• Environmental Studies
• Geography
• Life Sciences & Biomedicine
• Science & Technology
• Social Sciences

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1068/d020101

start page

• 101

end page

• 105

volume

• 2

issue

• 1