Social Justice and the City

Contents

Contents Introduction 9 PART ONE LIBERAL FORMULATIONS Chapter one: Social processes and spatial form: (1) The conceptual problems of urban planning 2 2 The geographical versus the sociological imagination 2 3 Towards a philosophy of social space 2 7 Some methodological problems at the interface 37 1 Individuation 38 2 Confounding 40 3 Statistical inference 41 Strategy at the interface 44 Chapter two:Social processes and spatial form: (2) The redistribution of real income in an urban system 50 The distribution of income and the social objectives for a city system 5 2 Some features governing the redistribution of income 55 1 The speed of change and the rate of adjustment in an urban system 55 2 The price of accessibility and the cost of proximity 56 3 Externality effects 57 The redistributive effects of the changing location ofjobs and housing 60 Redistribution and the changing value of property rights 64 Contents Introduction PART ONE LIBERAL FORMULATIONS 9 Chapter one: Social processes and spatial form: ( 1) The conceptual problems of urban planning 22 The geographical versus the sociological imagination 23 Towards a philosophy of social space 27 Some methodological problems at the interface 37 1 Individuation 38 2 Confounding 40 3 Statistical inference 4 1 Strategy at the interface 44 Chapter two: Social processes and spatial form: (2) The redistribution of real income in an urban system 50 The distribution of income and the social objectives for a city system 52 Some features governing the redistribution of income 55 1 The speed of change and the rate of adjustment in an urban system 55 2 The price of accessibility and the cost of proximity 56 3 Externality effects 57 The redistributive effects of the changing location ofjobs and housing 60 Redistribution and the changing value of property rights 64 Contents Introduction PART ONE LIBERAL FORMULATIONS 9 Chapter one: Social processes and spatial form: ( 1) The conceptual problems of urban planning 22 The geographical versus the sociological imagination 23 Towards a philosophy of social space 27 Some methodological problems at the interface 37 1 Individuation 38 2 Confounding 40 3 Statistical inference 4 1 Strategy at the interface 44 Chapter two: Social processes and spatial form: (2) The redistribution of real income in an urban system 50 The distribution of income and the social objectives for a city system 52 Some features governing the redistribution of income 55 1 The speed of change and the rate of adjustment in an urban system 55 2 The price of accessibility and the cost of proximity 56 3 Externality effects 57 The redistributive effects of the changing location ofjobs and housing 60 Redistribution and the changing value of property rights 64 Contents The availability and price of resources Political processes and the redistribution of real income 73 Social valuesand the cultural dynamicsof the urban system 79 Spatial organization and political, social and economic processes 86 1 The provision and control of impure public goods in an urban system 87 2 Regional and territorial organization in an urban system 91 A concluding comment 94 Chapter three: Socialjustice and spatial systems 96 "Ajust distribution" 99 Territorial distributivejustice 101 1 Need 101 2 Contribution to common good 105 3 Merit 106 To achieve a distributionjustly 108 Ajust distributionjustly achieved: territorial socialjustice 116 PART TWO SOCIALIST FORMULATIONS Chapter four: Revolutionaryand counter-revolutionary theory in geography and the problem of ghetto formation 120 A further comment on revolutionary and counter-revolutionary theories 147 Chapter five: Use value, exchange value and the theory of urban land use 153 The use value and exchange value of land and improvements 157 68 Contents The availability and price of resources 68 Political processes and the redistribution of real income 73 Social values and the cultural dynamics of the urban system 79 Spatial organization and political, social and economic processes 86 1 The provision and control of impure public goods in an urban system 87 2 Regional and territorial organization in an urban system 91 A concluding comment 94 Chapter three: Socialjustice and spatial systems 96 "Ajust distribution" 99 Territorial distributivejustice 1 0 1 1 Need 101 2 Contribution to common good 105 3 Merit 106 To achieve a distributionjustly 108 Ajust distributionjustly achieved: territorial socialjustice 116 PART TWO SOCIALIST FORMULATIONS Chapter four: Revolutionary and counter-revolutionary theory in geography and the problem of ghetto formation 120 A further comment on revolutionary and counter-revolutionary theories 147 Chapter five: Use value, exchange value and the theory of urban land use 153 The use value...