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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... 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 Prince ( 1964 ) ...
... population are involved as , for example , in the study of journey - to - work and journey - to- shop phenomena as they occur at the total city scale of analysis . A number of difficulties arise from using these techniques to measure ...
... population may therefore have rather different spatial schematic abilities , and education undoubtedly plays an important role in determining spatial ability ( Smith , 1964 ) . There is a good deal of variance in any population as ...
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Contents
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SOCIALIST FORMULATIONS | 119 |
SYNTHESIS | 285 |
Bibliography | 333 |
Index of authors | 345 |
Index of subjects | 348 |