Skip to main content

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

Preferred term

Marxism and the city  

Definition

  • To clarify the contribution of Marxism to urban studies and to identify the contours of this theoretical approach, it is necessary to begin with the original work of Marx and Engels, before dealing with the more complex issue of how subsequent developments in urban theory and Marxism have overlapped and intertwined. For Marxists, modern cities are capitalist cities, not merely “cities in a capitalist society,” and they are shaped in key respects by the dynamics of capitalist accumulation. [Source: Encyclopedia of Urban Studies; Marxism and the City]

Belongs to group

URI

https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Marxism_and_the_city

Download this concept: