[Debate] (Fwd) Rebel Cities by David Harvey: launching in NYC 25/4, radio today

[Patrick Bond]

      Verso launches David Harvey's /Rebel Cities/ with Brian Lehrer
      appearance, CUNY Grad Center discussion with David Graeber

By Jessica Turner <http://www.versobooks.com/blogs?post_author=1019> / 
09 April 2012

In New York and London, gentrification transforms previously low-income 
neighborhoods into playgrounds for the rich, while foreclosures have 
pushed scores of Americans out of their own homes. Land grabs for urban 
spaces inhabited by the poor and disenfranchised worldwide---from the 
favelas of Rio to the slums of Mumbai---further entrench the vast divide 
between the holders of capital and the dispossessed.

David Harvey's new book /Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the 
Urban Revolution/ 
<http://www.versobooks.com/books/1116-rebel-cities> explores the future 
of this radically unstable world. Unveiling a vision of the city as a 
social, political and liveable commons, Harvey pinpoints cities as the 
focus for anti-capitalist resistance, arguing that the definition of the 
right to the city is itself an object of struggle---and that this 
struggle must proceed in tandem with concrete efforts to materialize it.

As part of the launch for /Rebel Cities/, Harvey will be featured as a 
guest on the /Brian Lehrer Show <http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/> 
/Tuesday, April 10th for a live interview about his book. Tune in to 
WNYC 93.9 FM from 10am EST to 12pm EST to catch the interview as it happens.

On Wednesday, April 25th from 6.30pm to 9pm at CUNY Graduate Center, 
Harvey will appear with David Graeber, author of /Debt, the First 5,000 
Years <http://mhpbooks.com/books/debt/>/ for a talk entitled "Rebel 
Cities: Occupation, the Commons and Urban Democracy 
<http://rebelcities.eventbrite.com/>." The two will discuss their 
travels to worldwide sites of revolt in this past year, strategies for 
transforming radical action into an urban revolution and the future of 
the Occupy movement.

Seating is limited; tickets will be made available Wednesday, April 
11th from 1pm on, at the following registration link: 
  http://rebelcities.eventbrite.com/ <http://rebelcities.eventbrite.com/>.

A manifesto of the commons and the new global movements of the 
oppressed, /Rebel Cities /features beautiful cover artwork by Josh 
MacPhee/the justseeds.org <http://www.justseeds.org/> collective. 
Building on Henri Lefebvre's work on the city, the book dramatically 
undermines traditional critiques of the commons and examines histories 
of urban development throughout the world, in perhaps Harvey's most 
accessible book yet.

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