ABSTRACT
The major homology at the national level between social space and physical space, however modest, rough and refracted at lower levels it may be, is that between volume of capital and latitude, with height in social space inversely related to northerliness in Britain. The homology between social space and geographical space plays out not just over regions and zones of the country but within cities too, where different class fractions are dispersed and clustered to different degrees in terms of their residences, their workplaces, and their paths. Entwined with the peppering of the city centre with dominant-class bastions and the removal of industry to the urban periphery is growing residential segregation. The apparent reversal of the famous Burgess model, where a dilapidated inner core is contrasted to the leafy outer suburbs, is revealed by mapping Census data on the distribution of net weekly income and possession of higher education.
