Contents // Preface and Postscript 1 // 1 History: Geography: Modernity 10 // 2 Spatializations: Marxist Geography and Critical Social Theory 43 // 3 The Socio-spatial Dialectic 76 // 4 Urban and Regional Debates: the First Round 94 // 5 Reassertions: Towards a Spatialized Ontology 118 // 6 Spatializations: A Critique of the Giddensian Version 138 // 7 The Historical Geography of Urban and Regional Restructuring 157 // 8 It All Comes Together in Los Angeles 190 // 9 Taking Los Angeles Apart: Towards a Postmodern Geography 222 // Bibliography 249 // Index // 259