The Right to the City

2008/09/30 by David Harvey · 218 citations
Social Sciences · #Explosive material #Human Rights and Development #Power (physics) #Right to the city #Urbanization

paper · doi:10.64590/fmh

published in New Left Review 2(53), 23-40 (Routledge)

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Abstract

Examining the link between urbanization and capitalism, David Harvey suggests we view Haussmann’s reshaping of Paris and today’s explosive growth of cities as responses to systemic crises of accumulation—and issues a call to democratize the power to shape the urban experience.

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