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- Title
Bringing Space Back into Urban Social Science: The Work of David Harvey.
- Authors
Feagin, Joe R.
- Abstract
The author reviewed two books "The Urbanization of Capital: Studies in the History and Theory of Capitalist Urbanization" and "Consciousness and the Urban Experience: Studies in the History and Theory of Capitalist Urbanization." Both these books are written by David Harvey on political economy. Today in the urban social sciences, including sociology and geography; there is a major clash of paradigms. The new paradigm of scholars like Harvey accents the importance of analyzing capitalism, class conflict and the unequal distribution of resources in assessing urban life, space, structure and change. Harvey's explicit goal is a well-developed neo-Marxist theory of urbanization under capitalism. In Harvey's view an understanding of the capitalist mode of production, of investment flows and fractions of capital, and of capital labor struggles is essential to understanding the development of cities and of the consciousness of city people under capitalism. Harvey links the ebb and flow of real estate capital and finance mediation not only to contemporary examples but also to Paris in the nineteenth century.
- Subjects
CAPITALISM; URBANIZATION of Capital, The (Book); CONSCIOUSNESS &; the Urban Experience: Studies in the History &; Theory of Capitalist Urbanization (Book); SOCIAL sciences; HARVEY, David; URBAN policy; URBANIZATION
- Publication
Sociological Forum, 1987, Vol 2, Issue 2, p417
- ISSN
0884-8971
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF01124174