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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... chapters take on more meaning if it is understood how the general viewpoint they espouse was arrived at — hence the ... chapter 5 the problem has become one of human practice ( in which the linguistic problem is itself embedded ) and ...
... chapters in this volume . I now reject these distinctions as injurious to analysis even in their apparently harmless ... chapter 4 ) between status quo , revolutionary and counter - revolutionary theory provides some insight into the ...
... chapter 5 ) and space becomes whatever we make of it during the process of analysis rather than prior to it . Further , space is neither absolute , relative or relational in itself , but it can become one or all simultaneously depending ...
... chapter 2 the forces governing the redistribution of real income in an urban system are examined in detail . Throughout this chapter the question of distribution is examined as if it is entirely independent of the question of production ...
... chapters 1 and 6 indicates that the concept of urbanism undergoes considerable change throughout these essays ... chapter 6 urbanism appears as a vantage point from which to capture some salient features in the social processes ...
Contents
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SOCIALIST FORMULATIONS | 119 |
SYNTHESIS | 285 |
Bibliography | 333 |
Index of authors | 345 |
Index of subjects | 348 |