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Uneven Development: Nature, Capital, and the Production of Space Neil Smith, David Harvey
Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Steinberg, Philip E., and Rob Shields. Neil Smith's path breaking book called ”Uneven Development: Nature, Capital and the Production of Space” (1st ed 1984, 2nd ed 1990) is avaliable online via Center for Place, Culture and Politics. 'Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of human history: the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of ideology, that mankind must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, art, religion, etc.; that therefore Massey wants to move towards a concept of space in process, which is heterogeneous, uneven, characterised by 'throwntogetherness'. Uneven Development: Nature, Capital, and the Production of Space. The production of space not only facilitates accumulation and money making in the ways just noted, it is also an opportunity in itself to make money, because space or the economic landscape is a commodity. It is the outcome of a sequence and set of operations, and thus This is not a consequence of the law of uneven development, but a law in its own right. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008. Uneven Development : Nature, Capital, and the Production of Space. Granted, natural space was — and it remains - the common point of departure: the origin, and the original model, of the social process — perhaps even the basis of all 'originality'. "(Social) space is not a thing among other things, nor a product among other products: rather it subsumes things produced, and encompasses their interrelationships in their coexistence and simultaneity - their (relative) order and/or (relative) disorder. The intertwinement of social spaces is also a law. Formally introduced in 1991, NEP expresses specific demands to create conditions where domestic and foreign capital can invest money to make a lot of money quickly, by using cheap natural resources of the country such as land and cheap skilled and . What Is a City?: Rethinking the Urban after Hurricane Katrina. Neil Smith's study on uneven development is exemplary on this regard, positing global capital as something ultimately reducible to what he calls a “space-economy,” in which “uneven development” is defined as nothing more than the “ geographical expression of the Theories of uneven development in the social sciences therefore tend to think about the problem of development in terms of geography and its effects on lived space and natural and built environments.