Choice Reviews Online· 2013
Rebel cities: from the right to the city to the urban revolution
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Short summary
This book argues that cities are central battlegrounds for class struggle, where social justice and ecological sustainability can be pursued through anti-capitalist resistance.
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Key points
- Cities are both sites of social change and centers of capital accumulation.
- The concept of the 'right to the city' is central to struggles over urban life.
- Cities can be transformed into focal points for anti-capitalist resistance.
- Reorganization of cities can lead to greater social justice and ecological sanity.
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Abstract
Cities have long been the pivotal sites of political revolutions, where deeper currents of social and political change are fleshed out. Consequently, they have been the subject of much utopian thinking about alternatives. But at the same time, they are also the centers of capital accumulation, and therefore the frontline for struggles over who has the right to the city, and who dictates the quality and organization of daily life. Is it the developers and financiers, or the people? Rebel Cities places the city at the heart of both capital and class struggles, looking at locations ranging from Johannesburg to Mumbai, and from New York City to Sao Paulo. By exploring how cities might be reorganized in more socially just and ecologically sane ways, David Harvey argues that cities can become the focus for anti-capitalist resistance.
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Field: Urban Studies
Urban StudiesSocial Sciences