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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... nature of urbanism 229 Urbanism and the spatial circulation of surplus value 237 Conclusions 238 Modes of economic integration and the space economy of urbanism 240 Variation within a mode of economic integration 241 The circulation of ...
... theories 286 1 Ontology 288 2 Epistemology 296 On the nature of urbanism 302 The right to the city ( 2008 ) 315 Bibliography 333 Index of authors 345 Index of subjects 348 The biographical details of how this book came to be Contents.
... nature of space , the nature of theory , and , indeed , the nature of knowledge and scientific enquiry in general . 9 Introduction Introduction.
David Harvey. the nature of knowledge and scientific enquiry in general . The essays assembled in this volume were written at various points along an evolutionary path and therefore represent the history of an evolving viewpoint . I do ...
... nature of theory , the nature of space , the nature of social justice and the nature of urbanism each come to be viewed in a substantially different manner as the analysis proceeds . I The nature of theory The initial view of theory ...
Contents
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SOCIALIST FORMULATIONS | 119 |
SYNTHESIS | 285 |
Bibliography | 333 |
Index of authors | 345 |
Index of subjects | 348 |