Various planning (theory) questions answered–where to begin with Marx in urban and planning theory?

I spent the last day of planning theory answering questions. Some I didn’t get to, and they were good questions, so I thought I would answer them here.

How to break into the Marxist literature? 

You could do waaaaay worse than start with David Harvey’s readalong on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBazR59SZXkv

My favorite of David Harvey’s books: The Condition of Postmodernity and the History of Neoliberalism 

You really want to read Karl Polyani’s The Great Transformation 

Stuart Eldon’s presentation of Lefebvre is good: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/marxist-thought-and-the-city

Everybody should read Franz Fannon just to be an educated person.