Social Justice and the City

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Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973 - Business & Economics - 336 pages
Analysis of urban sociology, urban area economic structures and the urban spatial environment in the USA, including some urban planning implications - discusses theoretical aspects of urban development, the concept of urban land utilization, income distribution, income redistribution, urbanization, urban social structures, etc., and considers the prospects for socialism and for radical social change. Bibliography pp. 315 to 325.

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Introduction
9
Social processes and spatial form 1
22
Social processes and spatial form 2
50
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David Harvey received a Bachelor's degree and Ph.D. in geography from Cambridge University. After graduating in 1961, he joined the geography department at Bristol University as a lecturer. In the following years, he held teaching positions at Johns Hopkins and Oxford universities. He has written numerous books including Justice Nature and the Geography of Differences, The Urban Experience, The Condition of Postmodernity, and An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change. He has received many honors, among them the Outstanding Contributor Award of the Association of American Geographers, the Anders Retzuis Gold Medal of the Swedish Society of Anthropology and Geography, and the Vautrin Lud International Geography Prize.

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