Castells, The Urban Question: A Marxist Approach (1977), David Harvey, Social Justice and the City (1973), David Harvey, The Urbanization of Capital (1985), Henry Lefebvre, The Production of Space (1991), P. Saunders, Social Theory and the Urban Question (1986), M.P. Smith, City, State, and Market: The Political Economy of Urban Society (1988),
A. Thornley, Urban Planning under Thatcherism: The Challenge of the Market (1990), P. Ambrose, What Ever Happened to Planning? (1986), P. Hall, Cities of Tomorrow (1996) Graduate School of Geography Clark University 950 Main Street Worcester, MA 01610 -----Original Message----- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Lantsberg Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 3:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Radical perspectives on urban economics/ city planning Its been a few years since I've waded into the subject, but didn't d.harvey do a fair amount of recent work on this topic? I seem to remember his name with a piece called the 'the revanchist city' about modern day redevelopment but it could also have been neil smith, who is also quite good. Early manuel castells work definitely has a marxist bent, though he went on to become a theory-head cheerleader of disembodied capital to paraphrase doug henwood. Chester hartmann has written some stuff on redevelopment. Richard walker's work often shows up on city planning reading lists. Mike davis has written a bunch of articles on city planning - there's a good one out there that seems to be a prelude to what would eventually become 'planet of slums' talking about how fundamentalist religion supplanted marxism as a provider of community and hope in urban areas. A fun and easy read - though with little focus on urban economics and more on city planning as a tool for social justice - is "Making Advocacy Planning Work" or something like that, by Norm Krumholtz, the former planning director in cleveland during the 60s and 70's (inlduing kucinich's term). Alex -----Original Message----- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Louis Proyect Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 11:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Radical perspectives on urban economics/ city planning Check the work of Peter Marcuse, an urban planning professor at Columbia and son of Herbert. At 02:19 PM 7/17/2006, you wrote: >Anyone know of any good books (or articles) from a leftist perspective >on these things? Preferably (but not necessarily) one that covers the >theoretical side of it. I already have the collection "Marxism and the >Metropolis," BTW -- www.marxmail.org
