REBEL CITIES

Long before the Occupy movement, modern cities had already become the central sites of revolutionary politics, where the deeper curr ents of social and political change rise to the surface. Consequently, cities have been the subject of much utopian thinking. But at the same time they are also centers of capital accumulation and the front line for struggles over who controls access to urban reso urces and who dictates the quality and organization of daily life. Harvey asks how cities might be reorganized in more socially jus t and ec...[Read more]