Andy reviewed Pictures of a gone city by Walker, Richard (Spectre)
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3 stars
I read this for an urban geography grad seminar. I liked it. It's long but there are lots of maps/figures. I haven't really read an industrial geography before so it was cool to see the method Walker used; I would like to do this for my home town.
I do have some problems with his understanding of political-economic ideologies, especially what feels like a conflation of neoliberalism and neoconservatism. He also didn't really integrate neoliberalism into his analysis anyway, which seems like a big gap. Otherwise, pretty thorough.
I read this for an urban geography grad seminar. I liked it. It's long but there are lots of maps/figures. I haven't really read an industrial geography before so it was cool to see the method Walker used; I would like to do this for my home town.
I do have some problems with his understanding of political-economic ideologies, especially what feels like a conflation of neoliberalism and neoconservatism. He also didn't really integrate neoliberalism into his analysis anyway, which seems like a big gap. Otherwise, pretty thorough.