David Harvey’s pioneering book Social Justice and the City (1973) takes its readers on a fascinating journey, from a mainstream liberal view of the city to a radical political economic alternative. The transition is developed through engagement with an array of complex analytical issues – [...]
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With the publication of Justin McGuirk’s Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture, this blog post carries an earlier focus of mine on Mike Davis’ Planet of Slums, which was previously published in the journal Capital & [...]
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I am very happy to share the news of my joint appointment at the rank of Professor in the Departments of Political Economy and Sociology & Social Policy at the University of Sydney, beginning May 2016. Nearly twenty years ago, I completed my BA Honors in the Department of Political [...]
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Back in 2012, within the Marxism Reading Group in the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ) at the University of Nottingham we read David Harvey’s Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution. I started reading this book [...]
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What better way to become acquainted with my new position at the University of Sydney than to familiarise myself with some of the radical past of the city itself? With that aim in mind I recently picked up a copy, from the independent bookshop Gleebooks, of Terry [...]
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With all the furore surrounding Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century my aim here is to carry a weekly focus on the book . The purpose is modest. There is already in existence some rather excellent coverage and detailed engagement with the book both in the general media and on [...]
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With all the furore surrounding Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century my aim here is to carry a weekly focus on the book reblogged from For the Desk Drawer. The purpose is modest. There is already in existence some rather excellent coverage and detailed engagement with the book [...]
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‘The vast shanty towns of Latin America (favelas, barrios, ranchos)’, argues Henri Lefebvre in The Production of Space, ‘manifest a social life far more intense than the bourgeois districts of the cities. This social life is transposed onto the level of urban morphology, but it only survives [...]
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