Social Justice and the City

by Harvey, David

• ISBN13: 9780820334035
• ISBN10: 0820334030
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-10-15
• Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr

Summary

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 Harveyrs"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, Harveyrs"s line of inquiry pushes him in the direction of a "revolutionary geography," one that transcends the structural limitations of existing approaches to space. Harveyrs"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.

Author Biography

David Harvey is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His many books include A Brief History of Neoliberalism and Spaces of Global Capitalism: Towards a Theory of Uneven Geographical Development.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 9
Liberal Formulations
Social processes and spatial from: (1) The conceptual problems of urban planning	p. 22
The geographical versus the sociological imagination	p. 23
Towards a philosophy of social space	p. 27
Some methodological problems at the interface	p. 37
Individuation	p. 38
Confounding	p. 40
Statistical inference	p. 41
Strategy at the interface	p. 44
Social processes and spatial from: (2) The redistribution of real income in an urban system	p. 50
The distribution of income and the social objectives for a city system	p. 52
Some features governing the redistribution of income	p. 55
The speed of change and the rate of adjustment in an urban system	p. 55
The price of accessibility and the cost of proximity	p. 56
Externality effects	p. 57
The redistributive effects of the changing location of jobs and housing	p. 60
Redistribution and the changing value of property rights	p. 64
The availability and price of resources	p. 68
Political processes and the redistribution of real income	p. 73
Social values and the cultural dynamics of the urban system	p. 79
Spatial organization and political, social and economic processes	p. 86
The provision and control of impure public goods in an urban system	p. 87
Regional and territorial organization in an urban system	p. 91
A concluding comment	p. 94
Social justice and spatial systems	p. 96
"A just distribution"	p. 99
Territorial distributive justice	p. 101
Need	p. 101
Contribution to common good	p. 105
Merit	p. 106
To achieve a distribution justly	p. 108
A just distribution justly achieved: territorial social justice	p. 116
Socialist Formulations
Revolutionary and counter-revolutionary theory in geography and the problem of ghetto formation	p. 120
A further comment on revolutionary and counter-revolutionary theories	p. 147
Use value, exchange value and the theory of urban land use	p. 153
The use value and exchange value of land and improvements	p. 157
Urban land-use theory	p. 160
Micro-economic urban land-use theory	p. 162
Rent and the allocation of urban land to uses	p. 176
Use value, exchange value, the concept of rent and theories of urban land use-a conclusion	p. 190
Urbanism and the city-an interpretive essay	p. 195
Modes of production and modes of economic integration	p. 196
Modes of production	p. 197
Modes of economic integration	p. 206
Reciprocity	p. 207
Redistributive integration	p. 209
Market exchange	p. 210
Cities and surplus	p. 216
The surplus concept and urban origins	p. 216
Surplus value and the surplus concept	p. 224
Surplus labour, surplus value and the nature of urbanism	p. 229
Urbanism and the spatial circulation of surplus value	p. 237
Conclusions	p. 238
Modes of economic integration and the space economy of urbanism	p. 240
Variation within a mode of economic integration	p. 241
The circulation of the surplus and the balance of influence between the modes of economic integration in the urban space economy	p. 245
Patterns in the geographic circulation of the surplus	p. 246
The cities of medieval Europe	p. 250
The market exchange process and metropolitan urbanism in the contemporary capitalist world	p. 261
Redistribution and reciprocity as countervailing forces to market exchange in the contemporary metropolis	p. 274
Synthesis
Conclusions and reflections	p. 286
On methods and theories	p. 286
Ontology	p. 288
Epistemology	p. 296
On the nature of urbanism	p. 302
The right to the city (2008)	p. 315
Bibliography	p. 333
Index of authors	p. 345
Index of subjects	p. 348
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