Social Justice and the City (Revised Edition)

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Introduction; PART ONE: LIBERAL FORMULATIONS; Chapter one: Social processes and spatial form: (1) The conceptual problems of urban planning; The geographical versus the sociological imagination; Towards a philosophy of social space; Some methodological problems at the interface; Strategy at the interface; Chapter two: Social processes and spatial form: (2) The redistribution of real income in an urban system; The distribution of income and the social objectives for a city system; Some features governing the redistribution of income. The redistributive effects of the changing location of jobs and housingRedistribution and the changing value of property rights; The availability and price of resources; Political processes and the redistribution of real income; Social values and the cultural dynamics of the urban system; Spatial organization and political, social and economic processes; A concluding comment; Chapter three: Social justice and spatial systems; ""Ajust distribution""; Territorial distributive justice; To achieve a distribution justly; A just distribution justly achieved: territorial social justice. PART TWO: SOCIALIST FORMULATIONSChapter four: Revolutionary and counter-revolutionary theory in geography and the problem of ghetto formation; A further comment on revolutionary and counter-revolutionary theories; Chapter five: Use value, exchange value and the theory of urban land use; The use value and exchange value of land and improvements; Urban land-use theory; Micro-economic urban land-use theory; Rent and the allocation of urban land to uses; Use value, exchange value, the concept of rent and theories of urban land use-a conclusion. Chapter six: Urbanism and the city-an interpretive essayModes of production and modes of economic integration; Cities and surplus; Modes of economic integration and the space economy of urbanism; PART THREE: SYNTHESIS; Chapter seven: Conclusions and reflections; On methods and theories; On the nature of urbanism; The right to the city (2008); Bibliography; Index of authors; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Index of subjects; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z