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.
A penetrating analysis of contemporary urbanism which may indeed be
the signal for a change of direction, if not a revolution, in
geographic thought. The time is certainly ripe for this. But it
will appeal to and stimulate many other disciplines and
professions. It will be controversial for it brings into question
concepts and values that are fundamental to our way of life.
*Times Higher Education Supplement*
One of the most influential books in human geography, Social
Justice and the City is a generative work that has influenced
decades of urban studies scholars. Harvey skillfully demonstrates
the material forces that produce cities, urban geographies, and the
problems that are often associated with them. In so doing, he
opened up new territory for understanding some of the fundamental
and enduring problems of the city.
*author of Black, Brown, Yellow, and Left: Radical Activism in
Los Angeles*
This book, in fact, provides the dimension that is almost entirely
missing from the work of most critics, journalists, or historians
who describe and discuss the contemporary city or the development
of the modern movement in architecture.
*Architects Journal*
A good book, by any standards, and it is to be hoped that even
those many of the author's colleagues in geography, economics, and
sociology, who may suspect that the dose of theoretical Marxism
which we are offered here is too undiluted, may nonetheless ask
themselves whether they can, either through some type of
revisionism, or by starting elsewhere, offer a better or more
comprehensive theory of the city.
*Times Literary Supplement*
A solid and much-needed achievement.
*Geographical Review*
Social Justice and the City has rightfully been an influential
work, particularly among geographers. It is admirable not only in
its systematic questioning of the traditional explanations of urban
problems, but in insisting on a comprehensive view in explaining
social phenomena. It is a refreshing work because of the
paradigmatic change that is mapped in the course of the essays.
*Ethics*
Establishes David Harvey as one of the most fertile and fruitful
scholars working in the field of urban studies at the present time.
It also makes quite clear that urban geography and non-Marxist
urban economics can never be quite the same again.
*Urban Studies*
The adage that we become more conservative as we grow older is but
one of several comfortable notions that are profoundly shaken in
this extraordinary book. . . . Social Justice and the City contains
a wealth of convincing and unconvincing, disturbing and
reinforcing, but usually provocative ideas.
*Annals of the Association of American Geographers*
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