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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... geographical versus the sociological imagination Towards a philosophy of social space Some methodological problems at the interface 1 Individuation 2 Confounding 3 Statistical inference Strategy at the interface Chapter two : Social ...
... geographical enquiry and to those fields of intel- lectual endeavour , such as planning and regional science , with which geography has much in common . It seemed a reasonable starting assumption , for example , that principles of ...
... am indebted to the Members of the Colston Society for permission to repro- duce this material . Chapter 3 was a paper delivered at the special session on Geographical Perspectives on American Poverty at the 18 Social Justice and the City.
David Harvey. special session on Geographical Perspectives on American Poverty at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers and it was subsequently published in Antipode Monographs in Social Geography 1 , under ...
... that is the city . If we are to do this , however , we must overcome some ex- traordinarily difficult methodological , and conceptual problems . THE GEOGRAPHICAL VERSUS THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION Any general theory of 22.
Contents
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SOCIALIST FORMULATIONS | 119 |
SYNTHESIS | 285 |
Bibliography | 333 |
Index of authors | 345 |
Index of subjects | 348 |