The Urban Experience

by David Harvey

This book makes available to undergraduates the author's recent writing (including a new essay on flexible accumulation and the city of spectacle) on the physical and social environment of western cities, in which he explores the links between the processes and pressures of urbanization, the culture of urban life - in effect the culture of the west - and the nature of capitalism in the post-industrial world. The collection contains three of the five essays from "Consciousness and the Urban Experience" and four of the eight from "The Urbanization of Capital". The essays embody the combination of theory, observation and interpretation most characteristic of the author's recent work, and address the needs and interests of students of urban processes in departments of geography, sociology and politics. The book is aimed at students of urbanization and urban society in departments of geography, sociology and politics.

Genres: Nonfiction, Urban Studies, Cities, Urbanism, Sociology, Urban, Geography

312 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1985

About the author

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David Harvey (born 1935) is the Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). A leading social theorist of international standing, he graduated from University of Cambridge with a PhD in Geography in 1961.

He is the world's most cited academic geographer (according to Andrew Bodman, see Transactions of the IBG, 1991,1992), and the author of many books and essays that have been prominent in the development of modern geography as a discipline.

His work has contributed greatly to broad social and political debate, most recently he has been credited with helping to bring back social class and Marxist methods as serious methodological tools in the critique of global capitalism, particularly in its neoliberal form.

Reviews

[ریحانه صارمی · Rating 3 out of 5]

البته اگر قرار باشه ترجمه هم لحاظ بشه امتیاز کمتر از اینها داره. بعضی جاها اصلا امکان فهم متن وجود نداره!
متن کتاب پر است از نکات بدیع و عالی
البته تحت تاثیر ترجمه است یا خود متن، آشفتگی ای در متن دیده میشه که ردش رو نمیشه به راحتی پیدا کرد و از همین جهت نوشتن یه مختصری از کتاب کار راحتی نیست. اما عبارات خاصی رو میشه از کتاب نقل کرد:
"سرمایه داری شرایطی را می آفریند که در آن فضاهای شهری به همان ترتیبی که فرآیند تخریب خلاق به حرکت در می آیند بتواره میشوند و به وضوح تمام دست پنهان تاریخ را در معرض دید قرار می دهند."

[Max · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was an interesting read on the development of the urban lifestyle through a study of space. The idea is that human experience gives value to space, turning it into place; making an abstract place a concrete place. Comparisons can be drawn to de Certeau's Spatial Stories, which theorizes about the human experience and its relation to space and place as well.

[Ryan Mazzola · Rating 4 out of 5]

Challenging but worth it

[Josep Maria · Rating 5 out of 5]

Es bonico

[Alejandra Alonso · Rating 4 out of 5]

Si señor no soy de rancho...

[Harmandar Süleyman · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good perspective for development of modern cities over time.

[Murat Ucoglu · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is one of the best books to understand the Marxist approach on the capitalization of cities as well as on the urbanization of capital.

[Gökçek Özdaş · Rating 5 out of 5]

tam olarak bir kent kitabı sayılmaz, daha çok marksist bakış açısıyla yazılmış kentleri çoğunlukla iktisadi açıdan inceleyen bir kitap