Social Justice and the CityThroughout his distinguished and influential career, David Harvey has defined and redefined the relationship between politics, capitalism, and the social aspects of geographical theory. Laying out Harvey's position that geography could not remain objective in the face of urban poverty and associated ills, Social Justice and the City is perhaps the most widely cited work in the field. Harvey analyzes core issues in city planning and policy--employment and housing location, zoning, transport costs, concentrations of poverty--asking in each case about the relationship between social justice and space. How, for example, do built-in assumptions about planning reinforce existing distributions of income? Rather than leading him to liberal, technocratic solutions, Harvey's line of inquiry pushes him in the direction of a "revolutionary geography," one that transcends the structural limitations of existing approaches to space. Harvey's emphasis on rigorous thought and theoretical innovation gives the volume an enduring appeal. This is a book that raises big questions, and for that reason geographers and other social scientists regularly return to it. |
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... Marx , however collapses the distinctions and thereby proclaims the end to all philosophy ( since there is not much left to philoso- phize about in the usual sense of the term ) ... Marx's view of the matter . 14 Social Justice and the City.
David Harvey. now inclined to accept Marx's view of the matter . This is not to say that ethics are redundant , for there is a Marxian ethics of sorts . But it deals with how concepts of social justice and morality relate to and stem ...
... Marx's analysis that it promotes such a reconciliation among disparate topics and the collapse of dualisms without losing control over the analysis . The emergence of Marx's analysis as a guide to enquiry ( by which token I suppose I am ...
... Marx's analysis wherever it seems appropriate . It is in these last three chapters that some fundamental lines of ... Marx gives a specific meaning to ideology — he regards it as an unaware expression of the underlying ideas and beliefs ...
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Contents
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SOCIALIST FORMULATIONS | 119 |
SYNTHESIS | 285 |
Bibliography | 333 |
Index of authors | 345 |
Index of subjects | 348 |