Long before Occupy, cities were the subject of much utopian thinking. They are the centers of capital accumulation as well as of revolutionary politics, where deeper currents of social and political change rise to the surface. Do the financiers and developers control access to urban resources or do the people? Who dictates the quality and organization of daily life?

Rebel Cities places the city at the heart of both capital and class struggles, looking at locations ranging from Johannesburg to Mumbai, from New York City to São Paulo. Drawing on the Paris Commune as well as Occupy Wall Street and the London Riots, Harvey asks how cities might be reorganized in more socially just and ecologically sane ways—and how they can become the focus for anti-capitalist resistance.

David Harvey

David Harvey is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) and the author of many books including Social Justice and the City, The Condition of Postmodernity, The Limits to Capital, A Brief History of Neoliberalism, The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism, Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism, etc. His new book, published by Oxford University Press, is called Marx, Capital and the Madness of Econ... המשך לקרוא

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The New Imperialism (Clarendon Lectures in Geography and Environmental Studies)
The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change
Spaces of Global Capitalism: A Theory of Uneven Geographical Development