{"product_id":"the-urban-experience-9780801838491","title":"The Urban Experience","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe city--site of high human accomplishment and of squalid human failure--embodies the inner contradictions of capitalism. In this pioneering study David Harvey offers a definitive Marxist interpretation of the urban process under capitalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in two volumes as \u003ci\u003eConsciousness and the Urban Experience\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Urbanization of Capital\u003c\/i\u003e, Harvey's work is now available in an abridged one-volume paperback edition. Sppaning geography, sociology, economics, and politics, it offers a solid theoretical basis for understanding--and participating in--social change. The Urban Experience, write's Harvey, \"is about ways of seeing the city, of reading its text and finding an interpretive frame in which to locate the million and one surprises that confront us on the street.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Harvey\u003c\/b\u003e is Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eSocial Justice and the City\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50413057507602,"sku":"9780801838491","price":37.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_00e6017d-d208-4213-bb2f-433d36b7c7ef.jpg?v=1729343141","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-urban-experience-9780801838491","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}