Urban Revolution Now

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Urban Revolution Now

Henri Lefebvre in Social Research and Architecture

Theory of architecture City and town planning: architectural aspects Social theory Public administration Social and political philosophy Human geography Regional and area planning Civil engineering, surveying and building

Author: Christian Schmid

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Language: English

Published by: Routledge

Published on: 5th December 2016

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 9 Mb

ISBN: 9781351876438


Introduction

When Henri Lefebvre published The Urban Revolution in 1970, he sketched a research itinerary on the emerging tendency towards planetary urbanization. Today, when this tendency has become reality, Lefebvre’s ideas on everyday life, production of space, rhythmanalysis and the right to the city are indispensable for the understanding of urbanization processes at every scale of social practice.

Scope of the Volume

This volume is the first to develop Lefebvre’s concepts in social research and architecture by focusing on urban conjunctures in Barcelona, Belgrade, Berlin, Budapest, Copenhagen, Dhaka, Hong Kong, London, New Orleans, Nowa Huta, Paris, Toronto, São Paulo, Sarajevo, as well as in Mexico and Switzerland.

Contributors and Themes

With contributions by historians and theorists of architecture and urbanism, geographers, sociologists, political and cultural scientists, Urban Revolution Now reveals the multiplicity of processes of urbanization and the variety of their patterns and actors around the globe.

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