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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... definition of income ( which is what distributive justice is con- cerned with ) is itself defined by production . The forcing of consumption through need - creation and the like is then viewed as part of the process whereby an effective ...
... defined relationally . The urban centre , for example , is regarded as " containing " a periphery , for there can be no centre without a periphery and each helps to define the other . The collapse of the distinction between production ...
... defines the " sociological imagination " as something which " enables its possessor to understand the larger historical scene in terms of its meaning for the inner life and the external career of a variety of individuals . . . . The ...
... defined by the processes of urban society . " Leven ( 1968 , 108 ) has similarly pleaded for " some kind of theoretical framework within which we identify factors which are determinants of city form and which , in turn , produce some ...
... defines the nature of the coordinate system we must use for its analysis ( Reichenbach , 1958 , 6 ) . This conclusion can , I believe , be transferred intact to the social sphere . Each form of social activity defines its space ; there ...
Contents
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SOCIALIST FORMULATIONS | 119 |
SYNTHESIS | 285 |
Bibliography | 333 |
Index of authors | 345 |
Index of subjects | 348 |