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Writings on Cities ISBN: 0631191887 ISBN13: 9780631191889 Writings on Cities By: Henri Lefebvre : Edited by Eleonore Kofman ; Elizabeth Lebas Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Format: Paperback Our Price: 21.59 Discount: 10% RRP: 23.99

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.


Contents:

Acknowledgements.Part I Introduction

1 Lost in Transposition-Time, Space and the City.Part II Right to the City.2 Preface3 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 Realiziation of Philosophy

17 These on the City, the Urban and Planning

Part III Spaces and Politics.18 Introduction.19 Institutions of a Post-technological Society

Part IV Interviews

20 No Salvation away from the Centre?21 The Urban in Question

Part V Elements of Rhythmanalysis 22 Seen from the Window.23 Rhythmanalysis of Mediterranean Cities

Index.


Brief Description:

Brings together the author's reflections on the city and urban life written over a span of twenty years. This work contains a selection of writings contextualized by an introduction which places the material within the context of his intellectual and political life and times and raises issues as to their relevance for contemporary debates.

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