Long before the 15-M or Occupy Wall Street movement was created, the cities of the modern world had become centers of revolutionary politics, in which the deepest currents of social and political change surfaced. Cities have always been the object of utopian and revolutionary reflection. However, at the same time, the city has been centers of capitalist accumulation and front line in the struggles for the control of access to urban resources as well as the quality and organization of daily life. Who owns this control of the city, the financial and real estate developers, or the people?
Rebel cities places the city at the center of the class struggle and around the capital, from Johannesburg to Mumbai and from New York to São Paulo. Directing his attention to both the Paris Commune and the Occupy Wall Street movement and the riots in London, Harvey wonders how cities can be reorganized in a more socially just and ecologically healthier way, and how they can become the center of the anti-capitalist resistance.
 «Whose streets are they? Ours! ”In rebel cities David Harvey shows us how we can make that opinion a reality. The task - and this book - could hardly be more important. ”Benjamin Kunkel, author of Indecision and founder of the web n + 1
 "David Harvey brought about a revolution in his specialty and has inspired a generation of radical intellectuals." Naomi Klein
 "Scalpel analysis, ruthless." Owen Hatherley, The Guardian
 "What Harvey proclaims is that it is" we, "not the real estate developers, business planners or political elites, who truly build the city, and that only we have the right to control it." Jonathan Moses, Open Democracy
 «The intellectuals of the Occupy movement will appreciate the descriptions presented in rebel cities of various historical and international examples of urban struggles to recover public space and build their culture, and will undoubtedly find inspiration in Harvey's reflections on how to develop an anti-capitalist movement vivacious and resilient revolutionary. »Publisher's Weekly
 «An intelligent and coherent voice from the left.» Edwin Heathcote, Financial Times