Writings on Cities

by Lefebvre, Henri; Kofman, Eleonore; Lebas , Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9780631191889
• ISBN10: 0631191887
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-01-09
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The work of Henri Lefebvre - the only major French intellectual of the post-war period to give extensive consideration to the city and urban life - received considerable attention among both academics and practitioners of the built environment following the publication in English of The Production of Space. This new collection brings together, for the first time in English, Lefebvre's reflections on the city and urban life written over a span of some twenty years. The selection of writings is contextualized by an introduction - itself a significant contribution to the interpretation of Henri Lefebvre's work - which places the material within the context of Lefebvre's intellectual and political life and times and raises pertinent issues as to their relevance for contemporary debates over such questions as the nature of urban reality, the production of space and modernity. Writings on Cities is of particular relevance to architects, planners, geographers, and those interested in the philosophical and political understanding of contemporary life.

Author Biography

Eleonore Kofman is Professor in the Department of International Studies at Nottingham Trent University.
Elizabeth Lebas is Senior Lecturer in the School of Geography at Middlesex University. Both have researched and written extensively on French urbanization and urban theory.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Right to the City: Warning

Industrialization and urbanization

Philosophy and the City

Specific Sciences and Urban Reality

Philosophy of the City and Urbanistic Reality

The Specificity of the City

Continuities and Discontinuities

Levels of Reality and Analysis

Town and Country

Around the Critical Point

On the Urban Form

Spectral Analysis

The Right to the City

Perspective or Prospective

The Realiziation of Philosophy

These on the City, the Urban and Urbanism

Space and Politics

Space and Politics

introduction

Space and Politics

Institutions of a Post-technological Society

Interviews

No Salvation from the Centre

The Urban Question

Elements of Rhythmanalysis

Seen from the Window

Rhythmanalysis of Mediterranean Cities

Bibliography

Index

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