1st Edition

Post-Industrial America A Geographical Perspective

By David Clark Copyright 1985
    236 Pages
    by Routledge

    236 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 1984, this book analyses contemporary changes in industry, employment, education, science and technology, social attitudes and values in the USA, leading to the emergence of a new geography of post-industrial America. David Clark emphasizes the distributional processes and trends that have occurred over the post-war period. Data are analysed by reference to the then most recent census, of 1980. Throughout, the book provides a valuable and very comprehensive text that will be welcomed by all those wishing to study the geography of the contemporary USA.

    1. Industrial and post-industrial America  2. The changing distribution of population  3. Emerging patterns of industry and employment  4. The post-industrial city  5. The agricultural sector  6. Distributional problems and policies