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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... area without major conceptual adjustments . It is interesting to consider , for example , how long it has taken for the city planner and the regional scientist to adjust to each other in their attempt to understand city processes . The ...
... areas of the physical space which are not touched and are indeed unknown as far as the individual is concerned . The ... areas in a city , and these areas seem to form distinctive neighbour- hoods . In some cases these boundaries may be ...
... areas of Northern Ireland ) are good examples . So we can expect strong discontinuities in socially measured spatial structures . At a more aggregated level ( say the total journey - to - work pattern in a city ) , many of the ...
... area of a city you hate to go near because of unhappy memories ; the area you always associate with good times . Experience continues to accrue , and that experience may modify or extend the nature of the mental map or the spatial form ...
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Contents
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SOCIALIST FORMULATIONS | 119 |
SYNTHESIS | 285 |
Bibliography | 333 |
Index of authors | 345 |
Index of subjects | 348 |