The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights. David Harvey More Quotes by David Harvey More Quotes From David Harvey The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city. It is, moreover, a common rather than an individual right since this transformation inevitably depends upon the exercise of a collective power to reshape the processes of urbanization. The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights. David Harvey freedom change exercise The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city. David Harvey urbanization liberty cities Capitalism will never fall on its own. It will have to be pushed. The accumulation of capital will never cease. It will have to be stopped. The capitalist class will never willingly surrender its power. It will have to be dispossessed. David Harvey surrender class fall What kind of city we wish to build should reflect our personal wishes and needs. David Harvey kind wish People must get active; go outside; get moving. This is a crucial time. You know, massive wealth and capital haven't budged one bit, so far. We have to give it a huge push if we want to see something different in our society. We need to create mechanisms and forms of organization which reflect the needs and wants of society as a whole, not just a privileged-oligarchic class of individuals. David Harvey giving people moving The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space. David Harvey misery space hands Capitalists behave like capitalists wherever they are. They pursue the expansion of value through exploitation without regard to the social consequences. David Harvey capitalist expansion social The equilibrium between supply and demand is achieved only through a reaction against the upsetting of the equilibrium. David Harvey reactions upset demand Cities begin to use cultural production as a way to market their city as being unique and special. Of course, the problem with this is that much of culture is very easy to replicate. The uniqueness begins to disappear. Then, we have what I call the "Disneyfication" of society. David Harvey unique special culture The common-sense notion that 'there is a time and a place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the social order by assigning social meanings to spaces and times. David Harvey common-sense space order Skills that are monopolizable are anathema to capital. David Harvey anathema skills Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself. David Harvey quagmire land may But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained. David Harvey technological-change obsolescence rate The net worth of the 358 richest people in the world was then found to be 'equal to the combined income of the poorest 45 per cent of the worlds population - 2.3 billion people. David Harvey income population people Neoliberalization has not been very effective in revitalizing global capital accumulation, but it has succeeded remarkably well in restoring, or in some instances (as in Russia and China) creating, the power of an economic elite. The theoretical utopianism of neoliberal argument has, I conclude, primarily worked as a system of justification and legitimation for whatever needed to be done to achieve this goal. David Harvey creating russia goal What sets imperialism of the capitalist sort apart from other conceptions of empire is that it is the capitalist logic that typically dominates, though ... there are times in which the territorial logic comes to the fore. But this then poses a crucial question: how can the territorial logics of power, which tend to be awkwardly fixed in space, respond to the open spatial dynamics of endless capital accumulation? And what does endless capital accumulation imply for the territorial logics of power? David Harvey dynamics space doe Marx set out to resolve the contradictions and to correct the errors in classical political economy. In this he thought he had succeeded very well. Judging by the sound and the fury of the controversy surrounding his interpretations, he either succeeded too well or deluded himself to the success of his enterprise. David Harvey errors political judging Rampant inflation is just as hard to live with as the devaluation of commodities. David Harvey inflation commodity hard We're supposed to live under capitalism, and capitalism is supposed to be competitive so you would expect that capitalists and entrepreneurs would like competition. Well, it turns out that capitalists do everything they can to avoid competition. David Harvey capitalist entrepreneur competition Because the earth is not a product of labour it cannot have a value. David Harvey labour products earth
