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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... functions to perform in a social context and each type has particular verification procedures attached to it . The general distinction ( set out in the note to chapter 4 ) between status quo , revolutionary and counter - revolutionary ...
... function , and it also defines and arranges spatial units in terms of actual spatial relationships which have ... functional patterns which constitute a culture . " In other words , the shaping of space which goes on in architecture and ...
... function of all kinds of things which have nothing to do with spatial form and spatial meaning . There is undoubtedly a substantial portion of social process which operates independently of spatial form , and we need to know what ...
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Contents
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SOCIALIST FORMULATIONS | 119 |
SYNTHESIS | 285 |
Bibliography | 333 |
Index of authors | 345 |
Index of subjects | 348 |