Description
The Routledge Handbook of Henri Lefebvre,The City and Urban Society is the first edited book to focus on Lefebvre's urban theories and ideas from a global perspective, making use of recent theoretical and empirical developments, with contributions from eminent as well as emergent global scholars.
The book provides international comparison of Lefebvrian research and theoretical conjecture and aims; to engage with and critique Lefebvre's ideas in the context of contemporary urban, social and environmental upheavals; to use Lefebvre's spatial triad as a research tool as well as a point of departure for the adoption of ideas such as differential space; to reassess Lefebvre's ideas in relation to nature and global environmental sustainability; and to highlight how a Lefebvrian approach might assist in mobilising resistance to the excesses of globalised neoliberal urbanism. The volume draws inspiration from Lefebvre's key texts (The Production of Space; Critique of Everyday Life; and The Urban Revolution) and includes a comprehensive introduction and concluding chapter by the editors. The conclusions highlight implications in relation to increasing spatial inequalities; increasing diversity of needs including those of migrants; more authoritarian approaches; and asymmetries of access to urban space. Above all, the book illustrates the continuing relevance of Levebvre's ideas for contemporary urban issues and shows – via global case studies – how resistance to spatial domination by powerful interests might be achieved.
The Handbook helps the reader navigate the complex terrain of spatial research inspired by Lefebvre. In particular the Handbook focuses on: the series of struggles globally for the 'right to the city' and the collision of debates around the urban age, 'cityism' and planetary urbanisation. It will be a guide for graduate and advanced undergraduate teaching, and a key reference for academics in the fields of Human Geography, Sociology, Political Science, Applied Philosophy, Planning, Urban Theory and Urban Studies. Practitioners and activists in the field will also find the book of relevance.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION: 'URBAN' IDEAS FOR TWO CENTURIES
Michael E Leary-Owhin and John P McCarthy
PART 1
1. Lefebvre’s Transduction in a Neoliberal Epoch.
Michael E Leary-Ohwin
2. Lefebvre in Palestine: Anti-colonial Re-colonisation and the Right to the City
Oded Haas
3. The Urban Revolution(s) in Latin America: reinventing utopia
Chris Hesketh
4. Contesting Spaces of an Urban Renewal Project: a study of Kumartuli’s artist colony
Rishika Mukhopadhyay
5. Lefebvre and Contemporary Urbanism: the enduring influence and critical power of his writing on cities
Pierre Filion
6. Neo-Liberalism, Extraction and Displacement: abstract space and urbanism in India’s tribal belt
Michael Spacek
7. Constructed Otherness: remaking space in American suburbia
Gregory Marinic
8. Prohibited places: The pericentral self-produced neighbourhoods of Maputo in the neoliberal context
Silvia Jorge
PART 2
9. Still Burning: the politics of language in the South Bronx
Oscar Oliver-Didier
10. Spaces of Resistance in Luanda: ‘How do (small) gains become prisons?’ An analysis from a Lefebvrian perspective
Sílvia Leiria Viegas
11. Reading and Applying Lefebvre as an Urban Social Anthropologist
Siew Peng-Lee and Ho Hon Leung
12. Toward a Contemporary Concrete Abstract
Steve Hanson and Mark Rainey
13. Russian Dolls: trialectics in motion and spatial analysis
Miguel Torres Garcia
14. Counter-Spaces, No-Mans’ Lands and Mainstream Public Space: representational spaces in homeless activism in Japan
Carl Cassegard
15. Henri Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis as a Form of Urban Poetics
Claire Revol
16. Space in Representation: dislocation of meaning from the Gezi Park protests to the new Turkish presidential compound
Bulent Batuman
PART 3
17. Lefebvre and the Law: social justice, the spatial imaginary and new technologies
Julia J. A. Shaw
18. Interpreting the Spatial Triad: a new analytical model between form and flux, space and time
Gunter Heinickel and Hans-Peter Meier Dallach
19. Movement Without Words: an intersection of Lefebvre and the urban practice of skateboarding
Iain Borden
20. Visual Production of Urban Space: Lefebvre, the city and cinema
Nick Jones
21. Dominated and Appropriated Knowledge Workspaces: a tale of two cities
Ian Ellison
22. Dwelling on Design: the influence of Logos and Eros, Nouns and Verbs, on public housing renewal and cooperative alternatives
Matthew Thompson
23. The Consequential Geographies of the Immigrant Neighbourhoods of Quinta do Mocho in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area
Margarida Queiros, Anna Ludovici and Jorge Malheiros
24. Contested Cultural Heritage Space in Urban Renewal: the case of dense urban city in Hong Kong
Esther H. K. Yung and Ho Hon Leung
PART 4
25. Urban Agriculture: Food as Production of Space
Michael Granzow and Rob Shields
26. Ecologizing Lefebvre: Urban Mobilities and the Production of Nature
Nicholas A Scott
27. Lefebvre and Atmospheric Production: An Architectronics of Air
Derek R Ford
28. Transforming Nature through Cyclical Appropriation Or Linear Dominance?: Lefebvre’s Contributions to Thinking about the Interaction between Human Activity and Nature
Daniel Paiva
29. Drivers of Global Urbanization: Exploring the emerging Urban Society
Panu Lehtovuori, Jani Tartia and Damiano Cerrone
30. The Aesthetics of Spatial Justice under Planetary Urbanisation
Saara Liinamaa
31. Mapping Lefebvre's Theory on the Production of Space to an Integrated Approach for Sustainable Urbanism
Florian Wiedmann and Ashraf M Salama
32. Land Use Planning, Global Changes and Local Responsibilities
Luca P Marescotti
PART 5
33. Right to the City or to the Planet? Why Henri Lefebvre’s Vision is Useful and too Narrow at the same time
Marcelo Lopes de Souza
34. ‘In a group you feel OK, but outside there you are ready to die’: The Role of a Support Group in Disabled Refugees’ Struggles for their ‘Right To The City’ In Kampala, Uganda
Eveliina Lyytinen
35. ‘Right to the City’ Versus Neoliberal Urbanism in globalizing cities in China
Ran Liu and Tai-Chee Wong
36. Urban Creativity through Displacement and Spatial Disruption
Sana Murrani
37. The ‘Newcomers’ Right to the City: Producing Common Spaces in Athens and Thessaloniki
Charalampos Tsavdarolgou
38. The Right to the City: Evaluating the Changing Role of Community Participation in Urban Planning in England
Nick Bailey
39. Lefebvre and the Inequity of Obesity: Slim Chance of Food Justice for the Urban Poor
Hillary J Shaw
40. The Urban and the Written in Lefebvre’s Urban Texts
Rebio Diaz Cardona
PART 6
41. Exploring the Contours of the Right to the City: Abstraction, Appropriation and Utopia
Chris Butler
42. Informal Settlements and Shanty Towns as Differential Space
Marie Huchzermeyer
43. From Mourenx to Spaces of Difference
Michael E Leary-Owhin
44. Right to the City and Urban Resistances in Turkey: A Comparative Perspective
Gülçin Erdi
45. Dystopian Utopia? Utopian Dystopia? A Tale of Two Struggles for the Right to the City
Mee Kam Ng
46 ‘Something More, Something Better, Something Else, is needed’: A renewed ‘Fête’ on London’s South Bank
Alasdair J H Jones
47 The Right to the City: Centre or Periphery?
Nathaniel Coleman
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