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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... Review 53 ( September - October 2008 ) : 23-40 . Social Justice and the City was previously published in 1973 by the Johns Hopkins University Press . Introduction PART ONE LIBERAL FORMULATIONS Chapter one : Social processes.
David Harvey. Introduction PART ONE LIBERAL FORMULATIONS Chapter one : Social processes and spatial form : ( 1 ) The conceptual problems of urban planning The geographical versus the sociological imagination Towards a philosophy of ...
... FORMULATIONS Chapter four : Revolutionary and counter - revolutionary theory in geography and the problem of ghetto formation A further comment on revolutionary and counter - revolutionary theories Chapter five : Use value , exchange ...
... Formulations " ) . A contemporary representative of this approach is John Rawls whose voluminous work on A Theory of Justice ( 1971 ) contains an explicit statement on the nature of distributive justice without mentioning production ...
... . Finally , I would like to dedicate this book to all good committed journalists everywhere . Hampden , Baltimore January , I973 This page intentionally left blank Liberal Formulations Chapter 1 Social 19 Introduction.
Contents
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SOCIALIST FORMULATIONS | 119 |
SYNTHESIS | 285 |
Bibliography | 333 |
Index of authors | 345 |
Index of subjects | 348 |