David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism (New York, 2005) is not reviewed here because it focuses largely on the European origins of the practice and provides only limited attention to it in the United States. Harvey’s previous work, most notably The Condition of Postmodernity (Oxford, 1989) and Justice, Nature, and the Geography of Difference (Oxford, 1996), provides a foundation for the works discussed here.
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Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class (New York, 2002).
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They refer specifically to the claims of Michael Dear, particularly The Postmodern Urban Condition (Oxford, 2000) and From Chicago to LA: Making Sense of Urban Theory (Thousand Oaks, CA, 2002).