Urban deconcentration in the United States.

Stresses the limitations of the academic approach arising out of its preoccupation with the mere description of spatial patterns and its ideological commitment to a naive technological determinism. Emphasizes the potential of the marxist approach which is firmly based upon its concern for the spatial expressions of inequality in class societies and its readiness to connect the specific to the general through the analysis of spatial problems within the context of the capitalist mode of production. Class-struggle and the accumulation of capital are thus organically emerging as the focal points for the advancement of the new paradigm. A third perspective is suggested based upon the analysis of conflicts between the various interests organized around the use and exchange of land. -Editor