Capitalism, Cities, and Globalization: The Spatial Fix Explained

Why do cities keep expanding even during economic crises? Why does globalization produce massive infrastructure, megaprojects, and urban booms — often followed by collapse? This video explains how capitalism uses cities and regions to manage its internal crises. Drawing on David Harvey’s concept of overaccumulation and the spatial fix, the video shows why urbanization and large-scale infrastructure are not just development outcomes, but key mechanisms through which capitalist systems delay crisis. The video explores how surplus capital and labor are absorbed through urban growth, real estate, megaprojects, and regional expansion — and why this strategy repeatedly produces uneven development, debt, and spatial inequality. Using examples from global urbanization and large-scale construction projects, the video explains: – what overaccumulation is, – why cities become crisis-management tools, – how globalization reorganizes space rather than eliminating crisis, – and why these fixes are always temporary. This video is for anyone interested in urban planning, political economy, geography, globalization, and critical theory — and for those who want to understand why the world keeps getting built, even when it doesn’t seem necessary.