Whose streets? Our streets! In <i>Rebel Cities</i> David Harvey shows us how we might turn this slogan into a reality. That task-and this book-could hardly be more important.
- Benjamin Kunkel, author of <i>Indecision</i> and a founding editor of <i>N+1</i>,
David Harvey provoked a revolution in his field and has inspired a generation of radical intellectuals.
- Naomi Klein,
Forensic and ferocious.
- Owen Hatherley, Guardian
A consistent intelligent voice of the left.
- Edwin Heathcote, Financial Times
Challenging and timely.
Red Pepper
Harvey's clarion demand [is] that it is 'we,' not the developers, corporate planners, or political elites, who truly build the city, and only we who can seize back our right to its control.
- Jonathan Moses, Open Democracy
Intellectuals in the Occupy movement [will] appreciate <i>Rebel Cities</i>' descriptions of the historic and international parallel of urban struggles to reclaim public space and build culture, and be intrigued by Harvey's musings on how to grow a lively, resilient revolutionary anticapitalist movement.
Publisher's Weekly
Rebel Cities places the city at the heart of both capital and class struggles, looking at locations ranging from Johannesburg to Mumbai, from New York City to São Paulo. Drawing on the Paris Commune as well as Occupy Wall Street and the London Riots, Harvey asks how cities might be reorganized in more socially just and ecologically sane ways-and how they can become the focus for anti-capitalist resistance.