Re: Radical perspectives on urban economics/ city planning

[Alex Lantsberg <alantsberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

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


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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


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