The Urban Experience

by David Harvey

Overview

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."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801838491
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date:	04/01/1989
Edition description:	REPRINT
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

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.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Urbanization of Capital
Chapter 2. The Urban Process under Capitalism: A Framework for Analysis
Chapter 3. Land Rent under Capitalism
Chapter 4. Class Structure and the Theory of Residential Differentiation
Chapter 5. The Place of Urban Politics in the Geography of Uneven Capitalist Development
Chapter 6. Money, Time, Space, and the City
Chapter 7. Monument and Myth: the Building of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart
Chapter 8. The Urbanization of Consciousness
Chapter 9. Flexible Accumulation Through Urbanization: Reflection on "Post-Modernism" in the American City
References
Index

Editorial Reviews

An elaborate, coherent, and sensitive vision. Careful reasing of Harvey's works is an education of inestimable value.
--Choice

An excellent, accessible introduction to the thought of David Harvey, one of the foremost Marxian urban analysts of our era.
--Cooperative Economics News Service

From the Publisher

An excellent, accessible introduction to the thought of David Harvey, one of the foremost Marxian urban analysts of our era.

Cooperative Economics News Service

An elaborate, coherent, and sensitive vision. Careful reasing of Harvey's works is an education of inestimable value.

Choice

These books deserve to be read with care and promise to provoke important debates on the relationship of accumulation, space, and political practice.
—Science and Society

Matthew Edel