The Right To The City David Harvey Summary

Humans cannot live in the water and fish cannot live on land, for neither has the necessary features to survive in the other’s environment. Form dictates function, which is necessitated by situation. Since the internet makes access to answers nearly ubiquitous, it is easy to believe that situation disappears under the search bar. To agree with those who celebrate now as the age of democratized information. However, if these celebrations are justified, then why is citing Wikipedia problematic? Why did Google create Google Scholar? The information experts and non-experts can access is still different. The listicle and the academic journal article are epitomes of their respective situations: acidemia and populous media. Therefore to ignore the reasons why differences exist between David Harvey’s academic journal article “The Right to the City” and Lance Freedmen's listicle “5 Myths About Gentrification” in

Mirroring the process by which Harvey describes low-level workers are driven out of cities that they were integral in creating. Capitalists are removing the lower class from their land, and academics from their informative influence, so just like how low-level workers should make an effort to utilize their proverbial "right to the city", academia must make an effort to enter the conversation. This is not to say that academic work should become less academic, it just needs to be freely digitally accessible to the public, so that the public need not depend on commercialized taint and summary of facts. Although academic articles are for experts, in an age of democratized information and opinion, oversimplifying information and limiting facts to an elite is no way to change the world. Turning citizens into experts changes the world. As the slogan to the Washington Post reads “Democracy Dies in