Rebel Cities

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.

Info autore

David Harvey teaches at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is the author of many books, including Social Justice and the City, The Condition of Postmodernity, The Limits to Capital, A Brief History of Neoliberalism, Spaces of Global Capitalism, and A Companion to Marx's Capital.

Relazione

Whose streets? Our streets! In Rebel Cities David Harvey shows us how we might turn this slogan into a reality. That task-and this book-could hardly be more important. Benjamin Kunkel, author of Indecision and a founding editor of N+1

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: David Harvey
• Editore: Verso
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9781788734929
• ISBN: 978-1-78873-492-9
• Pagine: 208
• Dimensioni: 130 mm x 200 mm x 16 mm
• Serie: The Essential David Harvey
• Categorie: Saggistica; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Political activism, Urban & municipal planning, Human Geography, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Political activism / Political engagement