Writings on Cities
Henri Lefebvre(Author)
Blackwell Publishers
Published on 25. November 1995
Book
Hardback
264 pages
978-0-631-19187-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
514 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-631-19187-2 (9780631191872)
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Content
Contents.Introduction.1. Right to the City: Warning.2. Industrialization and urbanization.3. Philosophy and the City.4. Specific Sciences and Urban Reality.5. Philosophy of the City and Urbanistic Reality.6. The Specificity of the City.7. Continuities and Discontinuities.8. Levels of Reality and Analysis.9. Town and Country.10. Around the Critical Point.11. On the Urban Form.12. Spectral Analysis.13. The Right to the City.14. Perspective or Prospective.15. The Realiziation of Philosophy.16. These on the City, the Urban and Urbanism.17. Space and Politics - Space and Politics: introduction.18. Space and Politics: Institutions of a Post-technological Society.19. Interviews - No Salvation from the Centre.20. The Urban Question. Elements of Rhythmanalysis - Seen from the Window.21. Rhythmanalysis of Mediterranean Cities.Bibliography.Index.