L'urbanisation du capital
The Urbanization of Capital. This article analyses the creation of capitalist urban space during the socalled « Keynesian », or « Fordist », epoch and the transition from this epoch to the era of so-called « post-Fordism » which we are currently experiencing. The production of a spatial fix which...
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Français |
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2004
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| Acesso em linha: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Resumo: | The Urbanization of Capital.
This article analyses the creation of capitalist urban space during the socalled « Keynesian », or « Fordist », epoch and the transition from this epoch
to the era of so-called « post-Fordism » which we are currently experiencing.
The production of a spatial fix which is specific to each phase of
development is, for capitalism, both a means of managing its internal
contradictions, thus ensuring its survival, and of displacing these
contradictions onto a new terrain. This terrain is the result notably of the
tensions and constraints inherent in the spatial fix inherited from the previous
period and remodelled by the constant transformation of the mode of
production. The Keynesian urban space, constituted by cities oriented
towards demand, and moulded by the joint intervention of state planning and
credit-based finance, is succeeded by the post-Fordist city, which is reshaped
by intensified interurban and interregional competition, and by the
exacerbation of the polarisation of, and separation between, social classes.
The reproduction of social relations by and through space poses new
problems, at the same time that it opens new possibilities, for class struggles
and alternative socialist projects. |
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