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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... important and appropriate to explore how ideas in social and moral philosophy — ideas that are customarily regarded as distinctive and separate avenues of enquiry from the philosophy of science which had hitherto held my attention ...
... importance of recording the search process as it threads its way through the various essays here assembled . It is also important to note that the material content of Part 1 is not rejected but is incorporated and given new meaning by ...
... important sense . When theory becomes practice through use then and only then is it really verified . Underlying this view , and indeed underlying the whole evolution in the conception of theory contained in these essays , is , of ...
... important but seemingly disparate topics together . The com- plexity of urbanism is not to be attributed to the inherent complexity of the phenomena in itself but reflects merely our ability to weave an intricate woof of argument around ...
... important mechanisms which operate within " the urban process " , but the distinction be- tween fact and value as it affects the concept of income as " command over resources " again allows important questions to be swamped in a ...
Contents
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SOCIALIST FORMULATIONS | 119 |
SYNTHESIS | 285 |
Bibliography | 333 |
Index of authors | 345 |
Index of subjects | 348 |