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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... arises out of human practice is itself a problem for human practice to overcome rather than a problem which attaches to the properties of reality itself . The four themes which surround this central concern with social process and ...
... in the conception of theory contained in these essays , is , of course , a shift away from philosophical idealism towards a materialist interpretation of ideas as they arise in particular historical contexts 12 Social Justice and the City.
... arise over the nature of space — the answers lie in human practice . The question " what is space ? " is there- fore replaced by the question " how is it that different human practices create and make use of distinctive ...
... arise . The approach to the question of space in chapter 1 poses an irreconcilable dilemma that degenerates into a helpless , formless relativism . The approach to urban society in chapter 2 provides a useful frame- work for ...
... arises from academic and professional specialization on certain aspects of city processes . Clearly , the city cannot be conceptualized in terms of our present disciplinary structures . Yet there is very little sign of an emerging ...
Contents
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SOCIALIST FORMULATIONS | 119 |
SYNTHESIS | 285 |
Bibliography | 333 |
Index of authors | 345 |
Index of subjects | 348 |