Throughout his distinguished and influential career, David Harvey has defined and redefined the relationship between politics, capitalism, and the social aspects of geographical theory. Laying out Harvey's position that geography could not remain objective in the face of urban poverty and associated ills, "Social Justice and the City" is perhaps the most widely cited work in the field.
Harvey analyzes core issues in city planning and policy--employment and housing location, zoning, transport costs, concentrations of poverty--asking in each case about the relationship between social...
Throughout his distinguished and influential career, David Harvey has defined and redefined the relationship between politics, capitalism, and the ...
In 1992, CalhuasI, an isolated Andean town, got its first road. Newly connected to Ecuador's large cities, CalhuasI experienced rapid social-spatial change, which Kate Swanson richly describes in "Begging as a Path to Progress."
Based on nineteen months of fieldwork, Swanson's study pays particular attention to the ideas and practices surrounding youth. While begging seems to be inconsistent with--or even an affront to--ideas about childhood in the developed world, Swanson demonstrates that the majority of income earned from begging goes toward funding Ecuadorian children's educations in...
In 1992, CalhuasI, an isolated Andean town, got its first road. Newly connected to Ecuador's large cities, CalhuasI experienced rapid social-spatia...
In 1992, CalhuasI, an isolated Andean town, got its first road. Newly connected to Ecuador's large cities, CalhuasI experienced rapid social-spatial change, which Kate Swanson richly describes in "Begging as a Path to Progress."
Based on nineteen months of fieldwork, Swanson's study pays particular attention to the ideas and practices surrounding youth. While begging seems to be inconsistent with--or even an affront to--ideas about childhood in the developed world, Swanson demonstrates that the majority of income earned from begging goes toward funding Ecuadorian children's educations in...
In 1992, CalhuasI, an isolated Andean town, got its first road. Newly connected to Ecuador's large cities, CalhuasI experienced rapid social-spatia...
Company towns were the spatial manifestation of a social ideology and an economic rationale. The contributors to this volume show how national politics, social protest, and local culture transformed those founding ideologies by examining the histories of company towns in six countries: Argentina (Firmat), Brazil (Volta Redonda, Santos, FordlAndia), Canada (Sudbury), Chile (El Salvador), Mexico (Santa Rosa, RIo Blanco), and the United States (Anaconda, Kellogg, and Sunflower City).
Company towns across the Americas played similar economic and social roles. They advanced the frontiers of...
Company towns were the spatial manifestation of a social ideology and an economic rationale. The contributors to this volume show how national poli...
In the first book-length scholarly study of the San Fernando Valley--home to one-third of the population of Los Angeles--Laura R. Barraclough combines ambitious historical sweep with an on-theground investigation of contemporary life in this iconic western suburb. She is particularly intrigued by the Valley's many rural elements, such as dirt roads, tack-and-feed stores, horse-keeping districts, citrus groves, and movie ranches. Far from natural or undeveloped spaces, these rural characteristics are, she shows, the result of deliberate urbanplanning decisions that have shaped the Valley...
In the first book-length scholarly study of the San Fernando Valley--home to one-third of the population of Los Angeles--Laura R. Barraclough combi...
New York mayor Michael Bloomberg claims to run the city like a business. In "Bloomberg's New York," Julian Brash applies methods from anthropology, geography, and other social science disciplines to examine what that means. He describes the mayor's attitude toward governance as the Bloomberg Way--a philosophy that holds up the mayor as CEO, government as a private corporation, desirable residents and businesses as customers and clients, and the city itself as a product to be branded and marketed as a luxury good.
Commonly represented as pragmatic and nonideological, the Bloomberg Way,...
New York mayor Michael Bloomberg claims to run the city like a business. In "Bloomberg's New York," Julian Brash applies methods from anthropology,...
Across Rampart Street from the French Quarter, the Faubourg TremE neighborhood is arguably the most important location for African American culture in New Orleans. Closely associated with traditional jazz and "second line" parading, TremE is now the setting for an eponymous television series created by David Simon (best known for his work on "The Wire").
Michael Crutcher argues that TremE's story is essentially spatial--a story of how neighborhood boundaries are drawn and take on meaning and of how places within neighborhoods are made and unmade by people and politics. TremE has long...
Across Rampart Street from the French Quarter, the Faubourg TremE neighborhood is arguably the most important location for African American culture...
Across Rampart Street from the French Quarter, the Faubourg TremE neighborhood is arguably the most important location for African American culture in New Orleans. Closely associated with traditional jazz and "second line" parading, TremE is now the setting for an eponymous television series created by David Simon (best known for his work on "The Wire").
Michael Crutcher argues that TremE's story is essentially spatial--a story of how neighborhood boundaries are drawn and take on meaning and of how places within neighborhoods are made and unmade by people and politics. TremE has long...
Across Rampart Street from the French Quarter, the Faubourg TremE neighborhood is arguably the most important location for African American culture...
In the first book-length scholarly study of the San Fernando Valley--home to one-third of the population of Los Angeles--Laura R. Barraclough combines ambitious historical sweep with an on-theground investigation of contemporary life in this iconic western suburb. She is particularly intrigued by the Valley's many rural elements, such as dirt roads, tack-and-feed stores, horse-keeping districts, citrus groves, and movie ranches. Far from natural or undeveloped spaces, these rural characteristics are, she shows, the result of deliberate urbanplanning decisions that have shaped the Valley...
In the first book-length scholarly study of the San Fernando Valley--home to one-third of the population of Los Angeles--Laura R. Barraclough combi...
Company towns were the spatial manifestation of a social ideology and an economic rationale. The contributors to this volume show how national politics, social protest, and local culture transformed those founding ideologies by examining the histories of company towns in six countries: Argentina (Firmat), Brazil (Volta Redonda, Santos, FordlAndia), Canada (Sudbury), Chile (El Salvador), Mexico (Santa Rosa, RIo Blanco), and the United States (Anaconda, Kellogg, and Sunflower City).
Company towns across the Americas played similar economic and social roles. They advanced the frontiers of...
Company towns were the spatial manifestation of a social ideology and an economic rationale. The contributors to this volume show how national poli...
