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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... concept and urban origins 216 Surplus value and the surplus concept 224 Surplus labour , surplus value and the nature of urbanism 229 Urbanism and the spatial circulation of surplus value 237 Conclusions 238 Modes of economic ...
... concepts and how daily social practice solves with consummate ease seemingly deep philosophical mysteries concerning the nature of space and the relationships between social processes and spatial forms . 3 The nature of social justice ...
... concepts of social justice and morality relate to and stem from human practice rather than with arguments about the eternal truths to be attached to these concepts . For Marx , the act of observing is the act of evaluation and to ...
... concept which can be shifted at will to meet the requirements of any situation . The sense of justice is a deeply held belief in the minds of many ( including mine ) . But Marx posed the question , " why these beliefs ? " And this is a ...
... concept of income as " command over resources " again allows important questions to be swamped in a helpless formless relativism to which no solution , apart from opinionated moral exhortation , appears possible 17 Introduction.
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SOCIALIST FORMULATIONS | 119 |
SYNTHESIS | 285 |
Bibliography | 333 |
Index of authors | 345 |
Index of subjects | 348 |