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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... spatial form : ( 2 ) The redistribution of real income in an urban system 9 22 23 27 37 38 40 41 44 50 The distribution of income and the social objectives for a city system 52 Some features governing the redistribution of income 55 1 ...
... spatial forms , are , for the most part , distinct in our minds if not in reality and it has been a fundamental ... form is always regarded as artificial rather than real , but in the later chapters the distinc- tion is regarded as unreal in ...
... spatial . How best to portray the interpenetration between social process and spatial form that arises out of human practice is itself a problem for human practice to overcome rather than a problem which attaches to the properties of ...
... spatial - form theme requires that we understand how human activity creates the need for specific spatial concepts and how daily social practice solves with consummate ease seemingly deep philosophical mysteries concerning the nature of ...
... spatial transformations embedded in its evolution form the hard testing ground for socio - geographic 16 Social Justice and the City.
Contents
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SOCIALIST FORMULATIONS | 119 |
SYNTHESIS | 285 |
Bibliography | 333 |
Index of authors | 345 |
Index of subjects | 348 |