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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... important research and educational traditions — I shall call it building a bridge between those possessed of the sociological imagination and those imbued with a spatial consciousness or a geographical imagination . ... Mills ( 1959 , 5 ) ...
... important one . Long experience of such mapping has taught us that Euclidean geometry is the relevant geometry for discussing the organization of objects in physical space — at least as far as earth - bound phenomena are concerned ...
David Harvey. important to teach us . We cannot expect that the kind of geometry appropriate for discussing one kind of process will be adequate to deal with another process . The selection of an appropriate geometry is essentially an ...
... important that we understand these interactions if we are not ( to quote Webber again ) " to reconstruct the preconceived city forms that matched the social structures of past eras " . The basic point I am trying to make is that , if we ...
... important role in determining spatial ability ( Smith , 1964 ) . There is a good deal of variance in any population as regards the ability to read maps , to maintain a sense of direction , and so on . There is also considerable ...
Contents
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SOCIALIST FORMULATIONS | 119 |
SYNTHESIS | 285 |
Bibliography | 333 |
Index of authors | 345 |
Index of subjects | 348 |