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David Harvey’s REBEL CITIES: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution by Eleni KatriniCarnegie Mellon University, Fall 2013
A review of
http://vimeo.com/davidharvey/videos
0 the author; David Harvey
1 urbanization & capital apsorption
2 the urban growth machine
3 monopoly rent + identity
4 gentrification + the tragedy of urban commons
5 structures of civic organization
1 urbanization & capital apsorption
“The politics of capitalism are affected by the perpetual need to find profitable terrains for capital surplus production and absorption. In this the capitalist faces a number of obstacles to continuous and trouble-free expansion.”
1 urbanization & capital apsorption
The politics of capitalism are affected by the perpetual need to find profitable terrains for capital surplus production and absorption. In this the capitalist faces a number of obstacles to continuous and trouble-free expansion.
scarcity of labor
increase of wages
AFFECTED PRODUCTION
problem solution
fresh labor found
wages adjusted
not enough purchasing labor in existing market
AFFECTED PURCHASING
POWERproblem solution
creation of new lifestyles & values*
1 urbanization & capital apsorption
capital surplus absorption
1 urbanization & capital apsorption
source: http://www.parisapied.net/A%20abecedaire.htm http://spargelandfraise.wordpress.com/2011/05/ www.wikipedia.com
Baron Haussmann
1 urbanization & capital apsorption
A model of the 1964 World’s Fair, one of Robert Moses’s final projects.sources: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/nyregion/thecity/06hist.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113735/urban-planning-dictatorial-planners-image-rehabilitated
Robert Moses
1 urbanization & capital apsorption
Property booms that preceded the crashes of 1929, 1973, 1987, and 2000 stand out like a pikestaff. The buildings we see around us in New York City, they poignantly note, represent “more than architectural movement; they were largely the manifestation of a widespread phenomenon”. (Goetzmann and Newman)
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2 the urban growth machine
1%
20%
40%bottom
(wealthiest U.S. citizens)
(poorest U.S. citizens)
(wealthiest U.S. citizens)
33.8
%85
%
0.20%
US total wealth
3 monopoly rent + identity
+ $ Price of land Human activity & urban commons
$ Price of land
the tragedy of the Urban Commons
new development
4 gentrification + the tragedy of urban commons
5 structures of civic organization
So how can this urban regeneration and transformation happen by the citizens for themselves and not for serving the market? What are the social structures that need to be formed to promote the citizens’ and communities’ welfare instead of the financial benefits of a few?
5 structures of civic organization
horizontal structures - limitations in scale
5 structures of civic organization
Source: http://im-an-economist.blogspot.com/2012/03/evening-with-elinor-ostrom.html Source: http://ecosocialismcanada.blogspot.com/2012/08/murray-bookchin-man-who-brought-radical.html
collective ways of organizationnested structures in larger scalers
governing the commons
Elinor Ostrom Murray Bookchin +confederalismsocial ecology
5 structures of civic organization
nested horizontal structures
5 structures of civic organization
confederalism
A union of states in which each member state retains some independent control over internal and external affairs. Thus, for international purposes, there are separate states, not just one state. A federation, in contrast, is a union of states in which external affairs are controlled by a unified, central government.
Source: http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Confederalism
“The central question in this study is how a group of principals who are in an interdependent situation can organize and govern themselves to obtain continuing joint benefits when all face temptations to free-ride, shirk, or otherwise act opportunistically.” Ostrom (1990)
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-- conclusion
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” Buckminister Fuller