Urban revolution now : Henri Lefebvre in social research and architecture

Stanek, Łukasz, (editor.). Schmid, Christian, (editor.). Moravánszky, Ákos, (editor.).

Summary: 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. 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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ISBN: 9781409442929
ISBN: 9781409442936
ISBN: 9781322565866
ISBN: 1322565864
ISBN: 1409442942
ISBN: 9781409442943
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 345 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: Farnham ; Burlington : Ashgate Publishing, 2014.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: Theory, Not Method, Thinking with Lefebvre -- Part I. On Complete Urbanization -- 1. The Trouble with Henri: Urban Research and the Theory of the Production of Space -- 2. During the Urban Revolution : Conjunctures on the Streets of Dhaka -- 3. Where Lefebvre Meets the East: Urbanization in Hong Kong -- 4. Henri Lefebvre and 'Colonization': From Reinterpretation to Research -- Part II. Contradictions of Abstract Space -- 5. Plan Puebla Panama: The Violence of Abstract Space -- 6. 'Greater Paris': Urbanization But No Urbanity : How Lefebvre Predicted Our Metropolitan Future -- 7. The Production of Urban Competitiveness: Modelling 22@Barcelona -- 8. Reconstructing New Orleans and the Right to the City -- Part III. Everyday Architectures -- 9. Ground Exploration: Producing Everyday Life at the South Bank, 1948-1951 -- 10. The Space of the Square: A Lefebvrean Archaeology of Budapest -- 11 The Archi-texture of Power: An Inquiry into the Spatial Textures of Post-socialist Sarajevo -- 12. For Difference 'in and through' São Paulo: The Regressive-Progressive Method -- Part IV. Urban Society and Its Projects -- 13. Architectural Project and the Agency of Representation:The Case of Nowa Huta, Poland -- 14. The Debate about Berlin Tempelhof Airport, or: A Lefebvrean Critique of Recent Debates about Affect in Geography -- 15. Novi Beograd: Reinventing Utopia -- 16. Lefebvrean Vaguenesses: Going Beyond Diversion in the Production of New Spaces.
Source of Description Note:	Online resource; title from pdf information screen (EBSCO, viewed April 1, 2015).