![]() ![]() When we use the words “urban revolution” we designate the total ensemble of transformations which run throughout contemporary society and which serve to bring about the change from a period in which questions of economic growth and industrialization predominate to the period in which the urban problematic becomes decisive. Industrialization, once the producer of urbanism, is now being produced by it. Segregation in contemporary cities is to be considered as a global phenomenon of socio-spatial exclusion and isolation among social groups, depending, in many cases, on urbanisation processes, that cause increasingly inequalities between wealthy and deprived urban districts. Space and the political organization of space express social relationships but also react back upon them. The spatial problematic is not a substitute for class analysis but it can be an integral and increasingly salient element in class consciousness and class struggle within contemporary capitalism. ![]() Foucault captured this by showing how the intersection of space, knowledge, and power can be both oppressive and enabling. (Soja, 1985)Transcending his earlier claims for a socio-spatial dialectic. Taking the socio-spatial dialectic seriously means that we recognize that the geographies in which we live can have negative as well as positive consequences on practically everything we do. Building upon the works of Henri Lefebvre, Ernest Mandel, and others, a general spatial problematic is identified and discussed within the context of both urban and regional political economy. This sort of thinking is typical of spatial science but, in Pickless. The concept of a socio-spatial dialectic is introduced as a means of reopening the debate and calling for the explicit incorporation of the social production of space in Marxist analysis as something more than an epiphenomenon. An increasingly rigidifying orthodoxy has begun to emerge within Marxist spatial analysis that threatens to choke off the development of a critical theory of space in its infancy.
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