Tonight (Thursday, April 16th) at 6:30 PM Professor Harvey will be giving a lecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design titled, “The Urban Roots of the Fiscal Crisis.” His lecture will be addressing the questions:
How many fiscal disruptions over the last thirty years have been urban/property led? Why does this particular one takes the form it does? In what ways does this fits into a Marxist theory of urbanization under capitalism?
The lecture will be webcast live at this link at 6:30 PM (Eastern):
http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/events/webcasts/
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Also, a couple of recent news articles featuring Professor Harvey:
Urban Theory at the Down Town Club
The New York Times
April 14, 2009
Giddens trumps Marx but French thinkers triumph
The Times Higher Education Supplement
March 26, 2009
on Apr 19th, 2009 at 10:41 am
Solid speech, i wonder how much theoretical speculation could be developped from those arguments concerning the role of fixed capital, expecially the property markets. This kind of processes still have to be embedded in marxian theory of economic cycles properly.