Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself.
David HarveyTechnological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism.
David HarveyThe right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city.
David HarveyThe net worth of the 358 richest people in the world was then found to be 'equal to the combined income of the poorest 45 per cent of the worlds population - 2.3 billion people.
David HarveyWhat sets imperialism of the capitalist sort apart from other conceptions of empire is that it is the capitalist logic that typically dominates, though ... there are times in which the territorial logic comes to the fore. But this then poses a crucial question: how can the territorial logics of power, which tend to be awkwardly fixed in space, respond to the open spatial dynamics of endless capital accumulation? And what does endless capital accumulation imply for the territorial logics of power?
David Harvey