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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... structure which we can use to pigeon - hole or to individu- ate phenomena . The view of relative space proposes that it be understood as a relationship between objects which exists only because objects exist and relate to each other ...
... structure in human organization . Recently , human geographers have been more active in exploring the relationships between social processes and spatial form ( Harvey , 1969 ; Buttimer , 1969 ) . There is an enormous but widely ...
... structures of past eras " , and argues for the " emergence of a pragmatic problem - solving approach in which the spatial aspects of the metropolis are viewed as continuous with and defined by the processes of urban society . " Leven ...
... structural isomorphisms ) how particular kinds of perceptual experience can validly be mapped into a particular ... structure created from violating physical constraints , and the other set designed to facilitate the transference of ...
... structures of past eras " . The basic point I am trying to make is that , if we are to understand spatial form , we must first enquire into the symbolic qualities of that form . How can this be done ? I doubt very much whether we will ...
Contents
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SOCIALIST FORMULATIONS | 119 |
SYNTHESIS | 285 |
Bibliography | 333 |
Index of authors | 345 |
Index of subjects | 348 |