Urban Experience

The city has become the place where the highest human achievements and the most shameful human conditions are exhibited, and therefore the internal contradictions of capitalism are most strikingly visible. But when it comes to the city and experience, there has always been a critical tradition that asks, "Who founded the seven-gated city of Thebes?" as at the beginning of Brecht's poem "An Educated Worker Asks."

David Harvey, one of the most respected representatives of this tradition today, presents the first examples of his analytical richness regarding this reverse reading work in his Urban Experience. He embarks on a quest to "look at the city, read the text of the city, and find an explanatory framework in which we can place the millions of surprises we face on the streets." Harvey, who manages to convey this difficult search and its results to the reader in his usual plain language, manages to appeal to students, experts of the subject or those who are just interested in a comprehensive field ranging from urban planning to architecture, from sociology to economics. With Urban Experience, David Harvey's oeuvre in Sel acquires another important work.

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

First Print Year: 2016

Number of Pages: 396

Language Turkish

Original Language: English