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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... effects 57 The redistributive effects of the changing 60 location of jobs and housing Redistribution and the changing value of property rights 64 The availability and price of resources 68 Political processes and Contents Contents.
... effect upon social processes — hence the numerous examples of beautiful but unlivable designs in modern living . Into this interface between the sociological and the spatial approach to problems , a number of individuals and groups of ...
... effect of the spatial consciousness upon man's view of his relationship to the world around him , these are but a few examples . We should also find regional economists and regional scientists in this group . Others have moved into this ...
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Contents
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SOCIALIST FORMULATIONS | 119 |
SYNTHESIS | 285 |
Bibliography | 333 |
Index of authors | 345 |
Index of subjects | 348 |