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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... activity creates the need for specific spatial concepts and how daily social practice solves with consummate ease ... activities in the urban context . Implicit in this approach is a distinction between observation on the one hand and ...
... activity . Other views need to be considered . In order to make this point clear , I shall need to develop some simple ideas regarding modes of spatial experience , and the ways in which we can analyse that experience . Cassirer ( 1944 ) ...
... activity defines its space ; there is no evidence that such spaces are Euclidean or even that they are remotely similar to each other . From this we have the geographer's concept of socio - economic space , the psychologist's and ...
... activity pattern of the total population , it is this reaction which we must learn to gauge . If the city contains all manner of signals and symbols , then we can try to understand the meaning which people give to them . We must seek to ...
... activity in the city and this activity pattern may be a function of all kinds of things which have nothing to do with spatial form and spatial meaning . There is undoubtedly a substantial portion of social process which operates ...
Contents
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SOCIALIST FORMULATIONS | 119 |
SYNTHESIS | 285 |
Bibliography | 333 |
Index of authors | 345 |
Index of subjects | 348 |