David Harvey, ”Rebel Cities : From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution”, Verso, 2012

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In Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution (2012), geographer David Harvey analyzes both theoretical and practical aspects of urban social movements (USMs) and their potential as starting points for a much wider anti-capitalist struggle.The book is organized into two parts entitled, The Right to the City and Rebel Cities.In the four sections of the fi rst part, Harvey gives a theoretical introduction to understanding the pressing necessity for urban-based anti-capitalist struggles against the ongoing barbaric, morally wrong, and exposed system, which is "incapable of any response other than repression," and hence is, "everywhere on the defensive" 1) .In the three sections of the second part, he analyzes recent cases from the Anglo-Saxon world.Harvey asks at several points, why the city is the starting point or a way-station on the road to a much broader revolution.What is special in the capitalist urbanization experience that renders urban struggles fundamental to anti-capitalist politics?His answer lies at fi rst in how capitalism depends on urbanization to absorb its surplus production and the exploitative mechanism behind this process.Secondly, because of the changing socio-