Writings on cities / Henri Lefebvre ; selected, translated, and introduced by Eleonore Kofman and Elizabeth Lebas
- Bib ID:
- 1016199
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Lefebvre, Henri, 1901-1991
- Description:
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- Oxford {England} ; Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell, 1996
- vi, 250 p. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0631191879
- 0631191887 (paperback)
- Summary:
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The work of Henri Lefebvre, the only major French intellectual of the postwar period to give extensive consideration to the city and urban life, has since the publication in English of The Production of Space, received considerable attention among both academics and practitioners of the built environment. 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 - 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.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Lost in Transposition - Time, Space and the City
- 2. Preface
- 3. Industrialization and Urbanization
- 4. Philosophy and the City
- 5. Fragmentary Sciences and Urban Reality
- 6. Philosophy of the City and Planning Ideology
- 7. The Specificity of the City
- 8. Continuities and Discontinuities
- 9. Levels of Reality and Analysis
- 10. Town and Country
- 11. Around the Critical Point
- 12. On Urban Form
- 13. Spectral Analysis
- 14. The Right to the City
- 15. Perspective or Prospective?
- 16. The Realization of Philosophy
- 17. Theses on the City, the Urban and Planning
- 18. Introduction
- 19. Institutions in a 'Post-technological' Society
- 20. No Salvation away from the Centre?
- 21. The Urban in Question
- 22. Seen from the Window
- 23. Rhythmanalysis of Mediterranean Cities.
- Notes:
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- Translated from the French.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Cities and towns
- Other authors/contributors:
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1996
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