Social processes and spatial form: An analysis of the conceptual problems of urban planning

Harvey, David

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“…Olympic‐led regeneration is also not without its critics. Gold and Gold (2005), following Harvey's (1970) analysis of the contested nature of urban planning, show how Olympic regeneration schemes tend to privilege (visible) spatial form at the expense of social processes. Once international attention has moved on, grand Olympic projects often fail to fulfil their much‐publicized promises to regenerate communities or to improve the environment.…”

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The regeneration games: purity and security in the Olympic city¹

Fussey

Coaffee

Armstrong

et al. 2012

British Journal of Sociology

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This paper examines the wider social impacts of hosting the London 2012 Olympic Games and its 'legacy' ambitions in East London, emphasizing securitization as an inbuilt feature of the urban regeneration project. Drawing on extensive original empirical research, the paper analyses the modalities of Olympic safety and security practices within the Olympic Park itself and their wider impact, while also connecting this research to theorization and debates in urban sociology and criminology. In this complex setting, a raft of formal and informal, often subtle, regulatory mechanisms have emerged, especially as visions of social ordering focused on 'cleansing' and 'purifying' have 'leaked out' from the hyper-securitized 'sterilized' environment of the Olympic Park and become embedded within the Olympic neighbourhood. In such complex circumstances, applying Douglas' (1966) work on purity and danger to the spatial realm provides a key conceptual framework to understand the form and impact of such processes. The imposition of order can be seen to not only perform 'cleansing' functions, but also articulate multiple symbolic, expressive and instrumental roles.

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The regeneration games: purity and security in the Olympic city¹

Fussey

Coaffee

Armstrong

et al. 2012

British Journal of Sociology

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“…Inspired by this concept of Mills, Harvey proposes "geographical imagination" for urban study [5]. This concept is not a simple imitation of Mills' terminology.…”

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On the Origins of Marxist Geography--A Recount of David Harveyrs Turn to Urban Studies

Liu

2018

Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Management, Economics, Education and Social Sciences (MEESS 2018)

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Abstract. This thesis gives a recount of the origins and early development of David Harvey's Marxist criticism of capitalist urban society. To deal with the problems of the city, he attempts first to apply the geographical knowledge to urban social issue with a cross-disciplinary perspective and integrates the two seemingly separate fields through the close ties between social processes and spatial form. With the inclusion of the social dimension into urban social studies, Harvey eventually turns from Fabian socialism to Marxist understanding of society, which finally results into the emergence of Marxist geography.

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“…Au-delà de la mise en évidence des relations liant les confl its et certains attributs des lieux où ils se produisent, Janelle et Millward (1976) font l'hypothèse d'une structure spatiale de la distribution et de l'intensité des confl its qui ne résulterait en aucun cas du hasard. Cependant, déceler cette structure spatiale de l'activité confl ictuelle est un défi important puisque cela «exige une articulation délicate entre l'analyse géographique et sociopolitique» (Villeneuve et Côté, 1994: 397), ce qui, en soi, constitue le problème conceptuel central de disciplines telles que la géographie humaine, l'aménagement et la planifi cation urbaine (Harvey, 1970). Autrement dit, afi n de découvrir la structure spatiale de l'activité confl ictuelle, il est nécessaire d'aborder les liens existant entre une forme spatiale, la macroforme urbaine, et des processus sociopolitiques, les confl its urbains (Harvey, 1970;Bourne, 1976).…”

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Analyse spatiale des conflits urbains

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Pelletier

Trudelle

et al. 2006

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Résumé Cette étude exploratoire des conflits urbains de la région de Québec entre 1990 et 2000 montre que la fréquence des conflits est plus élevée dans les secteurs où, d’une part, la densité de commerces de quartier est la plus forte et le tissu urbain plus ancien et, d’autre part, où la population est la plus scolarisée et dispose d’un horaire de travail flexible. Cette étude confirme ainsi que certains cadres urbains sont plus susceptibles que d’autres de générer des conflits et que certains groupes sont plus disposés à s’y engager. Elle montre aussi que ces relations sont sensiblement les mêmes, quel que soit le type d’enjeux défendus par les protagonistes de ces conflits. Deux exceptions sont toutefois à relever. Tout d’abord, les conflits liés à des enjeux environnementaux montrent parfois des relations différentes avec les variables caractérisant les lieux de conflits (indépendamment du niveau d’éducation et le type de profession). Ensuite, alors que la densité de population n’a dans l’ensemble pas d’influence sur l’émergence des conflits, on observe tout de même que dans les secteurs où la population est la plus dense, les conflits liés à des enjeux de transports ou des enjeux sociaux sont plus nombreux

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Social processes and spatial form: An analysis of the conceptual problems of urban planning

Cited by 20 publications

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The regeneration games: purity and security in the Olympic city¹

The regeneration games: purity and security in the Olympic city¹

On the Origins of Marxist Geography--A Recount of David Harveyrs Turn to Urban Studies

Analyse spatiale des conflits urbains

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On the Origins of Marxist Geography--A Recount of David Harveyrs Turn to Urban Studies

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