Edward Soja | Academic Influence

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Edward Soja

Engineering

#656

World Rank

#1064

Historical Rank

#284

USA Rank

Architecture

#199

World Rank

#453

Historical Rank

#53

USA Rank

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Edward Soja's Degrees

Bachelors Urban Studies City College of New York

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According to Wikipedia, Edward William Soja was an urbanist, a postmodern political geographer and urban theorist. He worked on socio-spatial dialectic and spatial justice. Biography Edward Soja received his Ph.D. degree from Syracuse University. He worked for the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning at UCLA since 1972, where he was a Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning. He had also been a visiting professor at the London School of Economics.

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Edward Soja's Published Works

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Published Works

Thirdspace: Journeys to Los Angeles and other Real-and-Imagined Places (1996) (2808)
Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory (1989) (2028)
Postmetropolis: Critical Studies of Cities and Regions (2000) (1221)
THE SOCIO-SPATIAL DIALECTIC (1980) (758)
Seeking Spatial Justice (2010) (624)
Global city regions (2001) (468)
The city : Los Angeles and urban theory at the end of the twentieth century (1996) (302)
The Spatiality of Social Life: Towards a Transformative Retheorisation (1985) (245)
The City and Spatial Justice (2019) (223)
Urban Restructuring: An Analysis of Social and Spatial Change in Los Angeles (1983) (183)
The political organization of space (1971) (161)
Regional urbanization and the end of the metropolis era (2012) (115)
Taking space personally (2008) (85)
Regions in Context: Spatiality, Periodicity, and the Historical Geography of the Regional Question (1985) (84)
Writing the city spatially1 (2003) (71)
The geography of modernization in Kenya (1968) (66)
Accentuate The Regional (2015) (64)
Taking Los Angeles Apart: Some Fragments of a Critical Human Geography (1986) (63)
The geography of modernization in Kenya : a spatial analysis of social, economic, and political change (1969) (58)
Thirdspace: Toward a New Consciousness of Space and Spatiality (2008) (54)
Six Discourses on the postmetropolis (1998) (45)
Beyond Postmetropolis (2011) (45)
Los Angeles: Capital of the Late Twentieth Century (1986) (43)
My Los Angeles (2019) (43)
Borders unbound: globalization, regionalism, and the postmetropolitan transition (2005) (43)
Cities and states in geohistory (2010) (41)
In different spaces: The cultural turn in urban and regional political economy (1999) (37)
My Los Angeles: From Urban Restructuring to Regional Urbanization (2014) (35)
Spatializing the urban, Part I (2010) (28)
BETWEEN GEOGRAPHICAL MATERIALISM AND SPATIAL FETISHISM: SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF MARXIST SPATIAL ANALYSIS (1979) (25)
Vom „Zeitgeist“ zum „Raumgeist“. New Twists on the Spatial Turn (2008) (24)
Regional Planning and Development Theories (2009) (23)
Regional urbanization and third wave cities (2013) (19)
Globalization, Neoliberalism, and New Spaces of Capital in Cairo (2009) (16)
The African experience (1970) (15)
Putting Cities First: Remapping the Origins of Urbanism (2008) (14)
Redoubling the Helix: Space—Time and the Critical Social Theory of Anthony Giddens (Review Essay) (1983) (12)
Spatializing justice—Part II (2011) (11)
Keeping Space Open (1999) (10)
Response to Kurt Iveson: ‘Social or Spatial Justice? Marcuse and Soja on the Right to the City’ (2011) (9)
Seis discursos sobre la postmetrópolis (2004) (8)
On the Production of Unjust Geographies (2010) (8)
Between Geographical Materialism and Spatial Fetishism (1985) (7)
Urban Politics Now: Re-Imagining Democracy in the Neoliberal City (2008) (6)
Los Angeles 1965-1992: Six Geographies of Urban Restructuring (1994) (6)
Rural-Urban Interaction (1969) (6)
“The stimulus of a little confusion: a contemporary comparison of Amsterdam and Los Angeles” (2017) (6)
Seeking Spatial Justice after 9/11 (2010) (6)
The African Experience. Vol. I: Essays (1971) (5)
From Metropolitan to Regional Urbanization (2011) (5)
The New Regionalism: A Conversation with Edward Soja (2003) (5)
8. Seeking Spatial Justice in Los Angeles (2019) (5)
Foreword: cityscapes as cityspaces (2006) (4)
Communications and Territorial Integration in East Africa: An Introduction to Transaction Flow Analysis (2017) (4)
Spatializing phronesis: a critical evaluation of Real Social Science. (2013) (3)
Six discourse on the Postmetropolis (1999) (3)
Seeing Nature Spatially (2009) (3)
Migrants and Malaria By R. Mansell Prothero London, Longmans, 1965. Pp. x+142. 15s. (1968) (3)
Spatial Justice and the Right to the City (2011) (3)
The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City@@@The City: Los Angeles and Urban Theory at the End of the Twentieth Century (1998) (3)
Author’s response: writing geography differently (2006) (2)
An Expression of Appreciation (2006) (2)
Resistance after the Spatial Turn (2009) (2)
When It First Came Together in Los Angeles (1965–1992) (2014) (2)
Daughter Zion as a Gendered Space in the Book of Isaiah (2003) (2)
The African Experience. Volume I: Syllabus Lectures; Volume II: Bibliographic References; Volume IIIA: Introductory Essays; Volume IIIB: Introductory Essays. (1969) (1)
Towards a regional democracy? An Interview with Edward SOJA (Paris, 30 September 2010) (2010) (1)
The Geography of Modernization in Kenya: A Spatial Analysis of Social, Economic, and Political Change (1969) (1)
Occupy Los Angeles (2014) (1)
9. Occupy Los Angeles: A Very Contemporary Conclusion (2019) (1)
Why Spatial? Why Justice? Why L.A.? Why Now? (2010) (1)
Schism and Renewal in Africa: an analysis of six thousand contemporary religious movements by David B. Barrett London and Nairobi, Oxford University Press, 1968. Pp. xx + 363. 65s (2008) (1)
Le temps des nodalites post-metropolitaines [The changing geography of movement in contemporary society] (2004) (1)
The Geography of Modernization : Some Comments on the Relevance to Latin America of Recent Research in Africa (2007) (1)
Postmodernism in Geography (2001) (1)
The Centrum reminds me... (2004) (1)
6. A Look Beyond Los Angeles (2019) (0)
M 230: INTRODUCTION TO REGIONAL PLANNING: THE EVOLUTION OF REGIONAL PLANNING DOCTRINES (2004) (0)
In Between Spaces: Detroit Disassembled and the Other Side of Capitalism (2017) (0)
Foundations for a Poetics of Movement (2017) (0)
MEASURING THE HARMONIZATION DISTANCE WITHIN THE LEGAL SPACE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION AS A TOPOLOGICAL SPACE (2020) (0)
4. Comparing Los Angeles (2019) (0)
Book Reviews : B. W. Hodder and D. R. Harris (eds.), Africa in Transition : Geographical Essays, London, Methuen, 1967, pp. 378. $9.50 (1970) (0)
A Study on the Characteristic Elements of the Modern Bookstore Space in the Concept of “ Third Space ”-Focused on Cases from 2010 Onwards (2020) (0)
B. W. Hodder and D. R. Harris (eds.), Africa in Transition: Geographical Essays, London, Methuen, 1967, pp. 378. $9.50. (1970) (0)
Edward Soja: "Putting Cityspace First" (2008) (0)
On the Postmetropolitan Transition (2014) (0)
Book Review: The Development Process: A Spatial Perspective (1982) (0)
Six Discourses on the Postmetropolis 1 Between the Watts riots of 1965 (2005) (0)
Six Discourses on the Postmetropolis 1 (2018) (0)
REVIEW SYMPOSIUM: Turnabout Is Fair Play: A Critical Reading of Ann Markusen's Profit Cycles, Oligopoly, and Regional Development (1987) (0)
Translating Theory into Practice (2010) (0)
Appendix 1: Source Texts by the Author (2019) (0)
Los Angeles and the Shift from Metropolitan to Regional Urbanization (2010) (0)
European journal of American studies , Reviews 2016-1 (2019) (0)
10 The Urbanization of the World (2021) (0)
1. When It First Came Together in Los Angeles (2019) (0)
Book reviews (2001) (0)
12 PASSAGES TO POSTMODERNITY: THE RECONSTITUTION OF CRITICAL HUMAN GEOGRAPHY (2019) (0)
Appendix 2: Complementary Video Sources (2019) (0)
Taking Los Angeles Apart (1985–1995) (2014) (0)
Towards a regional democracy (2011) (0)
3. Inside Exopolis: Views of Orange County (2019) (0)
2. Taking Los Angeles Apart (2019) (0)
Building a Spatial Theory of Justice (2010) (0)

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