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Book review essays : Houses and people in the city, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, New Series I, no. I, I976

A second criticism is that there is a conflict of position as to whether segregation is ’merely’ a reflection of social processes, or whether it is a profoundly active ingredient in many social-geographic situations. At the beginning of his introduction Dr Peach adheres to the latter position, but at the end adopts the term ’reflection’. As Manuel Castells (1976) has written ’society cannot be reflected in space since it is not external to space’. A final criticism of the Readings relates to the organization of twenty of the papers into three areal groups, the US, the UK and Australia/New Zealand/ West Indies. Nojustification is given for this division, though such justification might be based on differences in institutional/historical contexts. In addition it is somewhat curious that two out of three papers in the UK section deal with Belfast-this might give the impression to the uninitiated that Belfast has a virtual monopoly of residential segregation, especially since the one paper