Writings on cities

Author(s)

• Lefebvre, Henri
• Kofman, Eleonore
• Lebas, Elizabeth

Bibliographic Information

Writings on cities

Henri Lefebvre ; selected, translated and introduced by Eleonore Kofman and Elizabeth Lebas

Blackwell, 1996

• : pbk

Other Title

Le droit à la Ville

Note

Translated from the French

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

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. Writings on Cities is of particular relevance to architects, planners, geographers, and those interested in the philosophical and political understanding of contemporary life.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii Part I Introduction 1 Lost in Transposition-Time, Space and the City 3 Part II Right to the City 2 Preface 63 3 Industrialization and Urbanization 65 4 Philosophy and the City 86 5 Fragmentary Sciences and Urban Reality 94 6 Philosophy of the City and Planning Ideology 97 7 The Specificity of the City 100 8 Continuities and Discontinuities 104 9 Levels of Reality and Analysis 111 10 Town and Country 118 11 Around the Critical Point 122 12 On Urban Form 133 13 Spectral Analysis 139 14 The Right to the City 147 15 Perspective or Prospective? 160 16 The Realiziation of Philosophy 175 17 These on the City, the Urban and Planning 177 Part III Spaces and Politics 18 Introduction 185 19 Institutions of a Post-technological Society 198 Part IV Interviews 20 No Salvation away from the Centre? 205 21 The Urban in Question 209 Part V Elements of Rhythmanalysis 22 Seen from the Window 219 23 Rhythmanalysis of Mediterranean Cities 228 Index 241

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• NCID: BD0340514X
• ISBN:
  • 9780631191889
• LCCN: 95012470
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: fre
• Place of Publication: Malden, Mass
• Pages/Volumes: vi, 250 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC9 : 361
  • LCC : HT153
  • DC20 : 307.76
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Cities and towns