{"id":292816,"date":"2017-02-02T01:52:02","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T00:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/rebel-cities-urban-resistance-and-capitalism-a-conversation-with-david-harvey\/"},"modified":"2017-02-02T01:52:02","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T00:52:02","slug":"rebel-cities-urban-resistance-and-capitalism-a-conversation-with-david-harvey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/rebel-cities-urban-resistance-and-capitalism-a-conversation-with-david-harvey\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebel Cities, Urban Resistance and Capitalism: a Conversation with David Harvey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-90205\" src=\"http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/02\/16406796_1779711669016456_7952245029695452287_n.jpg\" alt=\"16406796_1779711669016456_7952245029695452287_n\" width=\"510\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/02\/16406796_1779711669016456_7952245029695452287_n.jpg 510w, http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/02\/16406796_1779711669016456_7952245029695452287_n-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/02\/16406796_1779711669016456_7952245029695452287_n-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><br \/>Emanuele: You begin your\u00a0book\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1781680744\/counterpunchmaga\">Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution<\/a>, by describing your experience in Paris during the 1970s: \u201cTall building-giants, highways, soulless public housing and monopolized commodification on the streets threatening to engulf the old-Paris\u2026 Paris from the 1960s on was plainly in the midst of an existential crisis.\u201d In 1967, Henry Lefebvre wrote his seminal essay \u201cOn the Right to the City.\u201d Can you talk about this period and the impetus for writing\u00a0Rebel Cities?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Harvey: Worldwide, the 1960s is often looked at, historically, as a period of urban crisis. In the United States, for example, the 1960s was a time when many central cities went up in flames. There were riots and near revolutions in cities like Los Angeles, Detroit and of course after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King in 1968 \u2014\u00a0over 120 American cities were inflicted with minor and massive social unrest and rebellious action. I mention this in the United States, because what was in-effect happening was that the city was being modernized. It was being modernized around the automobile; it was being modernized around the suburbs. Now, the Old City, or what had been the political, economic and cultural center of city throughout the 1940s and 50s, was now being left behind. Remember, these trends were taking place throughout the advanced capitalist world. So it wasn\u2019t just in the United States. There were serious problems in Britain and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2017\/02\/01\/rebel-cities-urban-resistance-and-capitalism-a-conversation-with-david-harvey\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emanuele: You begin your\u00a0book\u00a0Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution, by describing your experience in Paris during the 1970s: \u201cTall building-giants, highways, soulless public housing and monopolized commodification on the streets threatening to engulf the old-Paris\u2026 Paris from the 1960s on was plainly in the midst of an existential crisis.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-292816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}