Description
The city--site of high human accomplishment and of squalid human failure--embodies the inner contradictions of capitalism. In this pioneering study David Harvey offers a definitive Marxist interpretation of the urban process under capitalism.
Originally published in two volumes as Consciousness and the Urban Experience and The Urbanization of Capital, Harvey's work is now available in an abridged one-volume paperback edition. Sppaning geography, sociology, economics, and politics, it offers a solid theoretical basis for understanding--and participating in--social change. The Urban Experience, write's Harvey, "is about ways of seeing the city, of reading its text and finding an interpretive frame in which to locate the million and one surprises that confront us on the street."
Author: David Harvey
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 04/01/1989
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.18h x 6.00w x 0.81d
ISBN13: 9780801838491
ISBN10: 0801838495
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Sociology | Urban
- Political Science | Public Policy | Regional Planning
- Political Science | Political Ideologies | Capitalism
About the Author
David Harvey is Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Social Justice and the City.