The Urbanization of Capital: Studies in the History and Theory of Capitalist Urbanization
by David Harvey
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The Urbanization of Capital (Harvey, 1985b), a collection of six papers published during the previous decade together with two new chapters, does exactly what it says on the cover: It explores the question of how capital -- which Harvey, following Marx, theorizes as a process rather than a thing -- becomes urbanized. ... Harveyʹs explicit aim ... is to ground our understanding of capitalist urbanism within the Marxian theory of accumulation, so it is with this concept that we must begin. show more After Marx, Harvey claims that there is in the capitalist production process an inherent tendency toward overaccumulation, whereby "too much capital is produced in aggregate relative to the opportunities to employ that capital."--Http://www.jstor.org (March 14, 2016). show lessTags
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David Harvey received a Bachelor's degree and Ph.D. in geography from Cambridge University. After graduating in 1961, he joined the geography department at Bristol University as a lecturer. In the following years, he held teaching positions at Johns Hopkins and Oxford universities. He has written numerous books including Justice Nature and the show more Geography of Differences, The Urban Experience, The Condition of Postmodernity, and An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change. He has received many honors, among them the Outstanding Contributor Award of the Association of American Geographers, the Anders Retzuis Gold Medal of the Swedish Society of Anthropology and Geography, and the Vautrin Lud International Geography Prize. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- HT321 .H373 — Social sciences Communities. Classes. Races Communities. Classes. Races Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology The city as an economic factor. City
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