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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... creation and the like is then viewed as part of the process whereby an effective demand for products is ensured . The collapse of the distinction between production and distribution , between efficiency and social justice , is a part of ...
... created by others . This " spatial consciousness " or " geographical imagination " is manifest in many disciplines . Architects , artists , designers , city planners , geographers , anthro- pologists , historians , and so on have all ...
... created it tends to institutionalize and , in some respects , to determine the future development of social process . We need , above all , to formulate concepts which will allow us to harmon- ize and integrate strategies to deal with ...
... created from violating physical constraints , and the other set designed to facilitate the transference of some aesthetic experience . The physical prin- ciples pose no problem — they are Euclidean and analytically tractable . The ...
... created space built out of forms , colours , and so on . Thus the visual space defined by a painting is essentially an illusion ... " like the space ' behind ' the surface of a mirror , it is what the physicists call ' virtual space ...
Contents
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SOCIALIST FORMULATIONS | 119 |
SYNTHESIS | 285 |
Bibliography | 333 |
Index of authors | 345 |
Index of subjects | 348 |