local struggles in world of crashes
Lecture by David Harvey at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, april 2009
The Urban Roots of the Fiscal Crisis
How many fiscal disruptions over the last thirty years have been urban/property led?
Why does this particular one takes the form it does?
In what ways does this fits into a Marxist theory of urbanization under capitalism?
Spring/Summer 2009 Issue 12 in urbanism
During the World Social Forum January 2009 a number of urban movements and networks agreed on some common framework for cooperation in the context of the WSF during the coming years. They fixed their common approach in a document called “Building Convergences at the World Social Forum“. The political part of that document stresses the [...]
Seeking for larger and more effective cooperation among organisations active in the alter-globalisation movements has been an issue at the WSF in general. This approach at the WSF was called “convergence”. During the World Social Forum January 2009 a number of urban movements and networks agreed on some common framework for cooperation in the context [...]
Original transcript appeared on a Brian Mier article, reporting from the WSF in Belem for Vice Magazine :
BELEM - INTRODUCING DAVID HARVEY (LITERALLY), NOW FIND OUT WHY YOU LOST YOUR JOB
http://vice.typepad.com/vice_magazine/2009/02/belem—introdu.html#more
- editor note : Thanks to Patrick Bond for sharing this article -
Call for debate
I am just coming back from “Right to the City” conference in Berlin, a meeting of leftist urban resarchers from (mainly) Germany, Britain, the U.S. and Canade at the occasion of Peter Marcuses 80th birthday celebration.
It was very dense and important meeting with numerous research reports of highest interest for [...]