Social Justice and the City

Name: Social Justice and the City
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ISBN: 9780820334035

ISBN-10: 0820334030

ISBN-13: 9780820334035

Edition: 1973 (Revised)

Authors: David Harvey, Andrew Herod, Nik Heynen, Melissa Wright

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Throughout 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 Harveyrsquo;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…

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List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 1973
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication date: 10/15/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

David Harvey received a Bachelor's degree and Ph.D. in geography from Cambridge University. After graduating in 1961, he joined the geography department at Bristol University as a lecturer. In the following years, he held teaching positions at Johns Hopkins and Oxford universities. He has written numerous books including Justice Nature and the Geography of Differences, The Urban Experience, The Condition of Postmodernity, and An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change. He has received many honors, among them the Outstanding Contributor Award of the Association of American Geographers, the Anders Retzuis Gold Medal of the Swedish Society of Anthropology and Geography, and the Vautrin Lud… International Geography Prize.



Introduction



Liberal Formulations



Social processes and spatial from: (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



Individuation



Confounding



Statistical inference


Strategy at the interface



Social processes and spatial from: (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 speed of change and the rate of adjustment in an urban system



The price of accessibility and the cost of proximity



Externality effects


The redistributive effects of the changing location of jobs and housing


Redistribution 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



The provision and control of impure public goods in an urban system



Regional and territorial organization in an urban system


A concluding comment



Social justice and spatial systems


"A just distribution"


Territorial distributive justice



Need



Contribution to common good



Merit


To achieve a distribution justly


A just distribution justly achieved: territorial social justice



Socialist Formulations



Revolutionary and counter-revolutionary theory in geography and the problem of ghetto formation


A further comment on revolutionary and counter-revolutionary theories



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



Urbanism and the city-an interpretive essay


Modes of production and modes of economic integration


Modes of production


Modes of economic integration



Reciprocity



Redistributive integration



Market exchange


Cities and surplus


The surplus concept and urban origins


Surplus value and the surplus concept


Surplus labour, surplus value and the nature of urbanism


Urbanism and the spatial circulation of surplus value


Conclusions


Modes of economic integration and the space economy of urbanism


Variation within a mode of economic integration


The circulation of the surplus and the balance of influence between the modes of economic integration in the urban space economy



Patterns in the geographic circulation of the surplus



The cities of medieval Europe



The market exchange process and metropolitan urbanism in the contemporary capitalist world



Redistribution and reciprocity as countervailing forces to market exchange in the contemporary metropolis



Synthesis



Conclusions and reflections


On methods and theories



Ontology



Epistemology


On the nature of urbanism


The right to the city (2008)


Bibliography


Index of authors


Index of subjects