Rebel | Cities: From The Right To The City To The...

: Harvey illustrates how capitalism uses urbanization as a tool to absorb surplus capital, often leading to "accumulation by dispossession" where the poor are displaced to make way for high-value development.

From the Right to the City to Urban Revolution - Paramjit Singh, 2014 Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the...

While widely praised as a "political and scientific manifesto", critics from Tandfonline and other academic journals have noted: : Harvey illustrates how capitalism uses urbanization as

: He highlights how social movements like Occupy Wall Street and the London Riots represent attempts to reclaim the "urban commons"—spaces and resources that should be managed for public benefit rather than private profit. Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the...