This new edition of Urban Social Geography provides a critical yet balanced introduction to the social and spatial patterns and processes of the western city. Not only has the text been fully updated, but it has also been extensively restructured to emphasize the sociospatial dialectic and the socio-cultural dimensions of urban life. Urban Social Geography is the study of the social dimensions of life in the modern city, drawing critically upon a wide range of ideas and approaches. These include human ecology, social networks, communities and neighborhoods, residential mobility and the study of deviant behavior.