Writings on Cities

Name: Writings on Cities
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ISBN: 9780631191889

ISBN-10: 0631191887

ISBN-13: 9780631191889

Edition: 1995

Authors: Henri Lefï¿½bvre, Eleonore Kofman, Elizabeth Lebas

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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…

Book details

List price: $59.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/9/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 260
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Introduction



Right to the City: Warning



Industrialization and urbanization



Philosophy and the City



Specific Sciences and Urban Reality



Philosophy of the City and Urbanistic Reality



The Specificity of the City



Continuities and Discontinuities



Levels of Reality and Analysis



Town and Country



Around the Critical Point



On the Urban Form



Spectral Analysis



The Right to the City



Perspective or Prospective



The Realiziation of Philosophy



These on the City, the Urban and Urbanism



Space and Politics


Space and Politics


introduction



Space and Politics


Institutions of a Post-technological Society



Interviews


No Salvation from the Centre



The Urban Question


Elements of Rhythmanalysis


Seen from the Window



Rhythmanalysis of Mediterranean Cities


Bibliography


Index