Writings on cities

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This book presents the most major Lefebvre's works which deal with the Every day experiences, the city, urban, space, and politic. Lefebvre was a real Marxist and also got influenced from Nietzche, particularly his philosophy on every day lives. As a Marxian, Henri Lefebvre perceived the human relations as dominated by the powerful class, economical one in particular. Therefore, the urban social spaces are constructed and created and changed according to their economic and political interests. The struggles and strategies of dominating and utilize the urban spaces are full of conflics between the powerfull and the poor ones. It is common and real urban phenomena nowadays in the globalization era, in most of the cities.

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, 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 and 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.

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• Writings on citiesBlackwell Publishers1996-01-01
• Writings On CitiesHardcoverBlackwell Publishers1996-01-01