《巴黎,现代性之都》是哈维受到文化研究影响之后的一部力作,可以说是其最为精微的马克思主义历史地理学研究成果。他的这项研究,充分吸纳了现有研究成果,以辩证历史地理唯物主义为方法论指导,从批判的政治经济学出发,跨越文学、社会学、历史学、地理学等学科的边界,将资本、时间、空间、城市以及置身其中的人的经验因素之间的辩证关系作为考察重点,追寻资本的运作在城市改造中所扮演的重要角色,以及此间市民都市经验的变化,展现了第二帝国时期的巴黎全景,是研究第二帝国的巴黎城市、文学艺术以及现代性诸问题的重要著作。哈维还通过对第二帝国时期巴黎的全景式展现,尤其是奥斯曼改造巴黎的过程,再次强调了现代性是延续的而非断裂的观点。 “Paris, capital of modernity” is a masterpiece of Harvey influenced by cultural studies. It can be said that it is the most subtle study of Marxist historical geography. His research, which fully absorbed the existing research results, dialectical historical geography materialism as the methodological guidance, starting from the critical political economy, across the boundaries of literature, sociology, history, geography and other disciplines, the capital , The time, the space, the city, and the experience factors of the people who lived in it as the key points of investigation, the important role played by the operation of capital seeking in urban renewal and the change of the civic experience in the city during this period, showing the second empire Period of Paris panorama, is to study the Second Empire of Paris city, literature and art and modernity important issues. Harvey, through the panoramic display of Paris during the Second Reich, and especially the Ottoman transformation of Paris, emphasized once again that modernity is a continuation rather than a break.