The Dictionary of Human Geography

D Darwinism Narrowly construed, Darwinism refers to the theory of evolution developed by Charles Darwin (1809–82) and initially ...

Besides these individuals, a variety of key issues within the geographical tradition drew heavily on evolutionary motifs. Statem ...

and to avoid the congestion,pollutionand land costs of high-density areas stimulate decentralization into suburbs and beyond, wh ...

firms actually do with respect to the setting up or closure of plants is best understood in this broader context ofpolitical eco ...

by a rapid and hastily assembled set of political negotiations in which it is clear that the metropolitan power wished to hand o ...

Kenyans as colonial subjects or as national or proto-nationalist actors. An alternative approach pursued by the so-called Subalt ...

of possibility for any and all identity, punctu- ality or unity. Although Derrida’s work is most often thought of as a post-stru ...

Suggested reading Critchley (1999); Derrida (1976, 2002); Royle (2000). deduction A form of reasoning which – as thereverseofthe ...

spaces of public housing) and address percep- tions and fear of crime as well as actual crime. The Safe Cities Program in partic ...

majorities in liberal democracies (seeliberal- ism). The spatial organization of formal democracy therefore has consequences for ...

of democracy. Rather than thinking simply in terms of the need to articulate sub-national and national scales with global scales ...

(e.g. in response to below replacement fertility) may promote new modes ofbelongingand family strategies, and create the conditi ...

Suggested reading Greenhalgh (1995); Kent and Haub (2005); Lutz, Sanderson and Scherbov (2004). density gradient The rate of fal ...

theorists claimed to see considerable problems with any sort of dependency approach (Corbridge, 1986). Nonetheless, central argu ...

(1963 [1961]), or they were spontaneous guer- rilla or squatter movements critical of the fail- ures of anti-colonial nationalis ...

haveresponsibilityforpolicyfieldssuchasplan- ning, economicdevelopment, health care and environmental protection, while defence ...

to Lefebvre’s reading of Marx as they do Harvey’s: hence Soja (1980, 1989) proposed a ‘socio-spatial dialectic’ (see alsotrialec ...

wider notions of transnational migration, resettlement, connection and attachment, often closely associated with post-colonial a ...

is also a powerful element ofidentity polit- ics. Race, class, gender, sexuality and other differences can provide the basis for ...

the recognition ofhierarchical diffusion, typically through central place sys- tems, and frequently operating alongside the dis ...