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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... of the surplus and the balance of influence between the modes of economic integration in the urban space economy 1 Patterns in the geographic circulation of the surplus 245 246 2 The cities of medieval Europe 250 3 The market Contents.
... patterns , when it is really hiding in extremely complex social organization , instead . " There are , therefore , signs of some pressure for bringing the sociological and geographical imaginations together in the context of the city ...
... pattern , and form on such Euclidean surfaces , for example . But , even given this development , our problems would be far from over simply because social space is not isomorphic with physical space . Here , the history of physics has ...
... patterns which constitute a culture . " In other words , the shaping of space which goes on in architecture and , therefore , in the city is symbolic of our culture , symbolic of the existing social order , symbolic of our aspirations ...
... pattern of the total population , it is this reaction which we must learn to gauge . If the city contains all manner of signals and symbols , then we can try to understand the meaning which people give to them . We must seek to ...
Contents
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SOCIALIST FORMULATIONS | 119 |
SYNTHESIS | 285 |
Bibliography | 333 |
Index of authors | 345 |
Index of subjects | 348 |