基本説明
Ed. and Transl. by Eleonore Kofman and Elizabeth Lebas.
Full 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 - 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 vii
Part I Introduction
1 Lost in Transposition-Time, Space and the City 3
Part II Right to the City
2 Preface 63
3 Industrialization and Urbanization 65
4 Philosophy and the City 86
5 Fragmentary Sciences and Urban Reality 94
6 Philosophy of the City and Planning Ideology 97
7 The Specificity of the City 100
8 Continuities and Discontinuities 104
9 Levels of Reality and Analysis 111
10 Town and Country 118
11 Around the Critical Point 122
12 On Urban Form 133
13 Spectral Analysis 139
14 The Right to the City 147
15 Perspective or Prospective? 160
16 The Realiziation of Philosophy 175
17 These on the City, the Urban and Planning 177
Part III Spaces and Politics
18 Introduction 185
19 Institutions of a Post-technological Society 198
Part IV Interviews
20 No Salvation away from the Centre? 205
21 The Urban in Question 209
Part V Elements of Rhythmanalysis
22 Seen from the Window 219
23 Rhythmanalysis of Mediterranean Cities 228
Index 241
