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David Harvey

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David William Harvey (born 31 October 1935) is a British-American academic best known for Marxist analyses that focus on urban geography as well as the economy more broadly. He is a Distinguished Professor of anthropology and geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). Harvey has authored many books and essays that have been prominent in the development of modern geography as a discipline. He is a proponent of the idea of the right to the city. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. David Harvey is the 11th most popular geographer (up from 22nd in 2019), the 426th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 803rd in 2019) and the most popular British Geographer.

David Harvey is a geographer and a Marxist scholar. He is most famous for his book "The Limits to Capital" which is a critique of the capitalist system.

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Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, David Harvey ranks 11 out of 86Before him are Muhammad al-Idrisi, Piri Reis, Pausanias, Abraham Ortelius, Martin Waldseemüller, and Carl Ritter. After him are Ferdinand von Richthofen, Wladimir Köppen, George Everest, Ya'qubi, Georg Joachim Rheticus, and Ibn Khordadbeh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, David Harvey ranks 25Before him are Michel Aoun, Theo Angelopoulos, David Prowse, John Saxon, Ágota Kristóf, and Erich von Däniken. After him are Françoise Sagan, Omar Sívori, Edward Said, Fairuz, John Cazale, and Mohamed Hussein Tantawi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David Harvey ranks 426 out of 8,785Before him are William Laud (1573), Arthur, Prince of Wales (1486), Samuel Butler (1835), William Morris (1834), Alexander Selkirk (1676), and Vanessa Redgrave (1937). After him are Benjamin Britten (1913), Timothy Dalton (1946), Ken Follett (1949), William Stuart-Houston (1911), John Couch Adams (1819), and John Deacon (1951).

Among GEOGRAPHERS In United Kingdom

Among geographers born in United Kingdom, David Harvey ranks 1After him are George Everest (1790), James Lovelock (1919), Doreen Massey (1944), John Walter Gregory (1864), Aaron Arrowsmith (1750), John Speed (1551), Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880), and Alexander Keith Johnston (1804).