Long before Occupy, cities were the subject of much utopian thinking.
Do the financiers and developers control access to urban resources or do the people? Who dictates the quality and organization of daily life? Rebel Cities places the city at the heart of both capital and class struggles, looking at locations ranging from Johannesburg to.
They are the centers of capital accumulation as well as of revolutionary politics, where deeper currents of social and political change rise to the surface.
Long before Occupy, cities were the subject of much utopian thinking