Title: The urbanization of capital : studies in the history and theory of capitalist urbanization /
Authors: Harvey, David, 1935-
Publisher: John Hopkins University Press,
Year: 1985
Subjects: Urban economics.; Capitalism History; Marxian school of sociology.; Marxian economics.; Space in economics.
Abstract: 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. 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." -- From http://www.jstor.org (March 14, 2016).
Contents: The urban process under capitalism -- The geography of capitalist accumulation -- Class-monopoly rent, finance capital, and the urban revolution -- Land rent under capitalism -- Class structure and the theory of residential differentiation -- The place of urban politics in the geography of uneven capitalist development -- On planning the ideology of planning -- The urbanization of capital.