1. Ruth Fincher, “Social Theory and the Future of Urban Geography,” Professional Geographer 39 (1987), 9–12.
2. John Urry, “Class, Space and Disorganized Capitalism,” in Politics, Geography, and Social Stratification, ed. Keith Hoggart and Eleanore Kofman (Beckenham, Kent: Croom Helm, 1986).
3. Debates are found in Nigel Thrift, “No Perfect Symmetry,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 5, no. 4 (1987), 400–407; Antipode 19, no. 1 (1987); Antipode 20, no. 1 (1988). Close investigation and detailed accounts of empirical change in particular localities provide an important step in recasting problems and understandings; such data also enable us to retool modes of thinking and theoretical approaches.
4. Recent contributions in this area of research are found in Jo Little, Linda Peake, and Pat Richardson, eds., Women in Cities: Gender and the Urban Environment (London: Macmillan, 1988);
5. Caroline Andrew and Beth Moore Milroy, eds., Life Spaces: Gender, Household Employment (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1988).