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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... groups of individuals and even whole disciplines have crept . Many of those possessed of the sociological imagination have come to recognize the significance of the spatial dimension in social process . Hallowell ( 1955 ) and Hall ...
... group . Others have moved into this interface from the other direction . Trained in a tradition of spatial consciousness , they have realized how the fashioning of spatial form can influence social process — architects such as Lynch ...
... groups in the population . The layout of a typical eighteenth - century village in England implies a great deal about the social order as it then existed with its dual sources of power in the church and the nobility . Lowenthal and ...
... group of individuals and discover their attitudes towards and their per- ceptions of the space which surrounds them . We can use a variety of techniques to do this from personal construct theory , semantic differential , through to more ...
... groups of people appear to identify substantially similar images with respect to the space that surrounds them and ... group norms ( and probably certain norms in acting with respect to that image ) , and a proportion of " unique image ...
Contents
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SOCIALIST FORMULATIONS | 119 |
SYNTHESIS | 285 |
Bibliography | 333 |
Index of authors | 345 |
Index of subjects | 348 |